Help Fund The Restoration of Meteor City Trading Post

Above, Meteor City Trading Post two weeks ago. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Work is currently underway at the Meteor City Trading Post near Winslow, Arizona. It is taking a lot of work and the new owners are hoping to get the trading post reopened as soon as they can. But they could use some financial help.

The Flagstaff Business News posted an article on the trading post back in May.

Here's a snippet:

One of a number of symbols of bygone days along historic Route 66 in Northern Arizona, today only rickety structures, rubble and graffiti mark the spot where Meteor City used to reign supreme as a must-see stop for fans of the legendary Mother Road. 

The Meteor City Trading Post, named in honor of the nearby Meteor or Barringer Crater, is the first of three Route 66-inspired roadside attractions located only a few miles apart along a 30-mile stretch west on Interstate 40 from Winslow to Flagstaff: The ramshackle Meteor City; the ghost town of Two Guns and the ruins of the Twin Arrows, also a trading post that now marks the turnoff for the new Twin Arrows Navajo Casino Resort. 

The days are numbered for these three iconic sites unless they are rescued soon. But, there is good news for one of the locations. Even as dust blows through the carcasses of its buildings and trailers, two new owners have promised to resurrect Meteor City.
Joann Brown, 54, and her husband, Mike Brown, 60, took over ownership of the property in March and are relocating to begin work on a major clean up at the three-acre site. 

“We’re trying to get there as fast as we can,” Joann explained, as they drove west in an RV in late April from their home in Jeffersonville, Indiana. “We can take all the help we can get. I’ve talked to all the Route 66 people. The response from everyone has brought us to tears. I just didn’t want it [Meteor City] to go away. I love history. I love the beauty this country has.” 

She said the price they paid was “okay, given there is so much that has been vandalized.”
Meteor City was first opened in 1938 and was operated as the Sharber Service Station, under the Texaco brand, by Arizona resident Joe Sharber.

Above, the ruins of the Twin Arrows Trading Post last December. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

The Browns have opened a Facebook page and are selling t-shirts to help finance the restoration of the trading post:



I purchased a t-shirt about a week or so ago.

If you are interested in seeing this historic Route 66 come back alive, get a t-shirt and follow the Meteor City - Route 66 Facebook page.

UPDATE:

I just got back from the post office and my t-shirt arrived. To see it, go here.