


Club Cafe, Santa Rosa, NM
Binhammer Photographs, Photoblog, Roadside America Photo Series
What is: all that is left were the signs at the side of the road.
What was: Opened in 1935, as the Santa Rosa stretch of Route 66 was completed, The Club Café was a staple of the early Route 66.
It had a blue-tiled frontage and smiling…

Rio Pecos Ranch Truck Terminal
Binhammer Photographs, Photoblog, Roadside America Photo SeriesThe truck terminal dated back to the heyday of Route 66 in the early 1960s, maybe as early as 1955. The neon wheels, the cowboy truck driver, and his animated hand waved during its heyday.

Powhatan Mound and Railroad Tracks,
Binhammer Photographs, Photoblog, Scarred Places Photo SeriesThe railroad tracks running across the Powhatan mound were first laid in 1855, across 22 acres of the Pamunkey reservation, without permission

Seed Shed, Drew Mississippi
Binhammer Photographs, Photoblog, Scarred Places Photo SeriesThis barn is the location where Emmett Till was beaten and, most likely, murdered.

Mose Wright’s Home where Emmett Till was Kidnapped, Money, MS
Binhammer Photographs, Photoblog, Roadside America Photo Series, Scarred Places Photo SeriesEmmett Till was kidnapped from the location seen in the historic image. It no longer exists. The image Im sharing is about half a mile from the original location.