Budville Trading Company
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N 35° 04.167 W 107° 31.533
13S E 269708 N 3883662
Budville Trading Company is an old gas station and store built in 1938 alongside Route 66 on a stretch that now parallels the Interstate in eastern New Mexico.
Waymark Code: WM1ATK
Location: New Mexico, United States
Date Posted: 03/18/2007
Views: 67
Flossie and Bud Rice built this home and service station and general store in 1938 and it appears to still be lived in to this day. As you might guess from the "amazing coincidence", community was named after Bud who had been a long term resident of Cubero where he had established his first service station in 1928.
Stretches of Route 66 which parallel the Interstate often have more places remaining to visit. It probably has to do with the fact that these stretches of road provide an alternate route for locals and hence businesses along these roads have a better chance of survival. The further afar a patch of Route 66 found itself after the creation of the Interstate Highway System, the harder it was for businesses on those stretches to survive. Budville Trading Company probably survived these almost-70 years because of being near the Interstate.
Americana: Service Station
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HC-77 Box 1A
Cubero, NM USA
87014
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