Tucumcari, New Mexico: La Cita - Mexican Hat on Route 66.
N 35° 10.282 W 103° 43.483
13S E 616131 N 3892791
La Cita Mexican Restaurant is well known for its trademark sombrero over its entrance, and the rotating neon sombero on its sign. Located in Tucumcari, New Mexico.
Waymark Code: WMMRYK
Location: New Mexico, United States
Date Posted: 10/31/2014
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La Cita Mexican Restaurant, also an American Restaurant, a Gift shop, & a Flower Shop, an odd mix, but that's Route 66 for you.
"Tucumcari has been touted as the best concentration of retro-Route 66 buildings on what's left of the old highway. Whether something is an original or a landmark-come-lately can be hard to discern, but the river of eager visiting photographers flows undeterred up and down this stretch of road.
Take the big sombrero atop La Cita Restaurant. Was it here in the 1950s? Doesn't matter, it looks good and that's enough (the restaurant's light-up sign on a pole is equally kitschy). The restaurant itself goes through occasional dormant periods, but is always available for pictures." Text Source: (
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