Some roadies with photo archives might be able to help with this project. From the Examiner.com:
Petrified Forest National Park is looking for photos taken at the Painted Desert Inn during the 1940s and 1950s. Specifically, the park is looking for any photos that show the soda fountain counter and stools in what was known as the Inn’s lunchroom. […]
With assistance from the Petrified Forest Museum Association, donations and other funds, the park will be recreating the soda fountain counter.
Anyone with photos of the interior of the lunchroom from the mid-twentieth century is asked to contact Lynn Carranza, Chief of Interpretation at Petrified Forest National Park at (928) 524-6228 ext. 245.
Apparently some memorabilia was returned to the Painted Desert Inn after it was refurbished and reopened, but they are too fragile to display.
“…the park will be recreating the soda fountain counter.”
How exciting!