Completed on New Year's Day in 1927, the "Monte V" has stood as a towering anchor of downtown Flagstaff and a classic Mother Road landmark for nearly a century. But this isn't just another dusty stop on the highway. The Monte Vista represents a unique intersection of high-rolling Hollywood history and spine-chilling local folklore.
Delgadillo’s Snow Cap has been a Route 66 institution since 1953. Juan Delgadillo built it from scrap lumber out of the Santa Fe Railway yard, parked a roofless 1936 Chevy out front, and turned the whole experience into one long, beautiful practical joke. Dead Chicken on the menu. Yarn in the mustard bottle. A fake doorknob that continues to confuse customers.
When I-40 bypassed Seligman in 1978, it nearly erased the town. The Snow Cap outlasted it. Juan’s family still runs it today — same counter, same jokes, seven decades later.
Ruben returns from traveling Route 66 and visits with the man who brought the Centennial Caravan together.
Just off Exit 230 on Interstate 40, about 30 miles east of Flagstaff, lies one of Route 66’s most haunting stops — Two Guns, Arizona, a ghost town with a story built on massacre, myth, and misfortune.
The Jack Rabbit Trading Post has survived 77 years along Route 66, outlasting the highway’s decline and emerging as a landmark on the Mother Road.