Volunteers in Tucumcari, N.M., who dressed up two long-closed gas stations last year with attractive paint jobs will start their efforts again this weekend.
The face-lift target this time is the gas station at the Paradise Motel on the city’s west edge. Volunteers will paint the station so it looks like an old Gulf or Sinclair station.
In case you haven’t seen the group’s previous efforts, here are two abandoned gas stations they painted last year:
As I’ve said, this is one of the best ideas on the Route 66 corridor in a long time. Dozens of towns along the Mother Road suffer with closed gas stations that are deteriorating into eyesores. A few gallons of paint can rectify that and provide eye candy for tourists.
The Main Street Association will also paint an old building in the downtown Main Street area as well — all as part of a Great American Clean-Up project in town.
If you want to help with the effort, you’re welcome to do so. They’ll start bright and early on Saturday morning, and paint on Sunday as well.
(Photos courtesy of Richard Talley)