This unnamed opinion writer for the Nanaimo News Bulletin in British Columbia, Canada, packaged a whole lot of half-baked assumptions into one sentence of this travelogue through the American Southwest:
Winslow probably takes first prize for the most run-down town on old Route 66 and the corner the Eagles sang about in 1973 is its whole tourist industry.
Anyone who’s traveled the length of Route 66 will find at least 10 towns that are infinitely more run-down than Winslow, Ariz. There are the ghost towns of Glenrio, Amboy, Twin Arrows, Two Guns, Cuervo, Endee and Texola. The there are the towns which have been decimated by being abandoned or damaged by heavy industry — East St. Louis, Venice, Madison, Galena, McCook, Times Beach. That doesn’t even count the numerous towns that have simply disappeared.
Secondly, anyone who’s spent much time in Winslow knows that La Posada Hotel is no slouch in the tourism department. To proclaim that Standin’ in a Corner Park is the town’s only tourism is simply wrong.
That’s it. Rant over.
Well – let’s make the package even smaller. Just consider the source, what else does Nanaimo have, other than BC Ferries taking passengers to Vancouver Island, because they sure weren’t staying in Nanaimo! lol