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A productive week of Route 66 fun!

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Bye for now Winslow We accomplished most of our work goals and exceeded our fun plans! It's exciting to see Winslow's renaissance project coming together. The theater is re-opened and busy every night, the Soda Fountain and a Cafe serving breakfast  and lunch should be finished mid summer, the new Arizona 66 Trading Company is open, and of course the Standin' on the Corner store is going as strong as ever. All of this, in addition to several really good restaurants that are already there. The restaurants are a little different here, but it's a good thing. Almost all of them say Mexican and American Food. No matter what they're named or how they look they all serve incredible Mexican food. Bojo's and Brown Mug are walking distance from the Palace and Casa Blanca is about a mile east on Route 66 just past the Falcone. BTW, the red brick building to the center left is the 66 Motor Palace. People come from around the world to stand on the corner. Bubba f...

Dickies Selvedge Denim Jeans and Jeep obsession.

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Dickies 1922 Heritage Jeans We got our hands on some Dickies jeans from their Heritage collection. These jeans are made at the Dickies work shop in New Braunfels Texas of Cone Mills White Oak denim. The White Oak plant in North Carolina was built by Cone Mills in 1905 and they weave selvage denim on narrow looms from the 1940's. We have a small supply of the carpenter and heavy duty button fly straight leg five pocket styles in limited sizes. These are selling well by word of mouth and we aren't going to put them on our web store until they become more readily available. If you're interested in them give us a call or email 66@66MotorPalace.com and we can arrange a fitting and send you some pictures. International friends please accept our apology, we are unable to ship this product outside the USA. Jeans Chore Coat Baby Except when we go to Winslow later this month we are devoting our spare time (besides riding) to getting the Jeep dialed in. 47-year-ol...