The Historic Tucumcari page on Facebook posted this 15-minute home movie, circa 1960, from the Route 66 town of Tucumcari, N.M.
Locations in the film include the Tri-Angle Café, Tucumcari Memorial Park cemetery, Harry’s Cafe, and the train station. Does anyone know whether Harry’s or the Tri-Angle were on 66?
Regardless, the film is fascinating to watch, especially of the old cars.
And the songs added to the video all refer to Tucumcari. Those songs made the 2010 compilation “Songs of Tucumcari,” produced by the Tucumcari-Quay County Chamber of Commerce in 2010.
At 9 seconds into the video there is a sign for “Harry’s Lunch”. Harry’s Lunch was at 103 Railroad Avenue across from the railroad depot and about 8 blocks north of Route 66.
This video is a nice period piece but is so amateurish. The camera man needs to take a course in basic photographic composition and learn how to point the camera.
Ron Warnick, thank you for posting the link to this video. Phil Gordon is correct about the location of Harry’s, and the Tri-Angle Café was also near the Train Station.
While I agree with Lane Stripe that the film is “amateurish,” it is that way because the person shooting it was almost certainly an amateur, filming it for the enjoyment of himself, his family, and his friends. Since it’s nearly 53 years after the fact, what good does it do to advise him “to take a course in basic photographic composition and learn how to point the camera”? Even if he is still alive, he won’t be able to travel back to 1960 and do it right the second time around.