Bottle Tree Farm near Oro Grande California - Route 66 Minute #11

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The bottle tree farm north of Oro Grande, California is an oasis of color in the desert.

Artist Elmer Long has been working on it for some years now. It is a way to display the bottles and other things he collected with his dad when he was a kid, as well as the other treasures he found as an adult. Some of the things are more than 100 years old.

It is right along Route 66. It's fenced, but you can see the various things and get some great photos despite that.

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Standin on a Corner in Winslow Arizona - Route 66 Minute #10

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The Eagles made Winslow, Arizona famous with a line in "Take it Easy," about Standin' on a Corner there. Decades after the song's popularity in 1972, townspeople in Winslow decided to make a park to remind everyone of the tune, as if it weren't permanently tattooed on our brains already.

Just in case you're not sure of the words - don't fear - it is played in a continuous loop at the corner. The corner is right on what was once Route 66.

The burning question I had was "Why Winslow?" Apparently it involves Jackson Browne having car trouble on his way to a cosmic destination. I just knew there would be a good story.

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