Car Station, San Jon, New Mexico, USA

by Barbara Sambri, an abandoned car station along historical highway 66 in New Mexico

An abandoned car station along historical route 66 in San Jon (New Mexico), not far from the Texas border. This is one of the several abandoned buildings along north american highways: these buildings were perfectly working since a few decades ago, when Interstates were built (I40 in this case), in order to reduce distances between East and West Coasts.
These new roads didn’t cross the several small cities spread along highways and so many of these cities died because there were no more drivers needing assistance (does anybody remember ‘Cars‘ by Pixar?).
Recently, interest on the historical 66 and his monuments have become important and so several projects started in order to renew all the historical buildings along this legendary road.