The El Rancho Hotel's Facebook page posted the following images originally posted by Avi Wolf:
According to Wolf:
Route 66 Truck (now just Coal Ave) in Gallup NM facing East, then (from a late 50's/ early 60's postcard) and now (from Google Maps).
The Chief Theater at left (now gone) was once owned by R.E. Griffith, brother of the famed Hollywood director D.W. Griffith.
Downtown Gallup looked like a thriving town back then with colorful business signs along the boulevard. Today, it looks drab with the signs gone.
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| Above, the main lobby of the El Rancho Hotel. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
Along with the aforementioned Chief Theater, R. E. Griffith built the El Rancho Hotel in Gallup in 1936 that opened in 1937 as a base for Hollywood movie productions. The El Rancho is open today and visitors to Gallup should stop in and take a look at their collection of movie star photographs on the second floor of the hotel's lobby.
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