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Moriarty's Ist Fire Station Building777 Route 66, Moriarty, NMPhone: 
This mural is part of the RETRO-Relive the Route project funded by the New Mexico MainStreet program. The artist of this mural is Paul Harmon of nearby Edgewood.
Photo(s): 2013, 2019
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About Us We started traveling Historic U.S. Route 66 as a destination in 2009. It's like a 2,400 mile long drive back in time from Chicago to Santa Monica! more
Did
You Know: Many parts of the old 4 lane Route 66 were reverted to a 2 lane
road after 66 was realigned to the interstate. In many places the abandoned
lanes are still there.
It
kind of looks like the "Moriarty Fire Dept" lettering is inset
in the stone, hard to tell for sure from this photo though, This photo
was snapped in 2013 the newer sign now says New Mexico Workforce.
There's
a cool mural on the east side of the building. It points out that Moriarty
sits on the "Retribution Road" a knick name for the post 1937
alignment of Route 66 from Santa Rosa to Albuquerque. A common and often
told story is that the realignment was the result of some politcal fuss
in the state capital at Santa Fe. Whatever was behind the realignment
it did cut about 100 miles off Route 66 in New Mexico.