Abandoned Twin Arrows Trading Post on Route 66 Wood Print

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The closed Twin Arrows Trading Post in Arizona. Located east of Flagstaff the stop with its trademark bright yellow twin arrows once catered to Route 66 travelers with gas, curios, and an 8 stool diner. Opened originally as the Padre Canyon Trading Post in 1949 the name was later changed to Twin Arrows and pair of 25 foot arrows were constructed. The trading post was closed in 1998.

It all started when I was about 5 or 6 years old and I got my hands on a well used Kodak Brownie Target Six-20. I would wander the neighborhood, carefully selecting the 12 exposures, and then run the roll of black and white 620 film to the Fotomat in the parking lot of the nearby grocery store to get it processed. I eventually progressed to a Kodak 110 Instamatic, that I earned by selling newspaper subscriptions, and then in 1977 my parents gave me an Olympus OM-1 SLR for Christmas. The OM-1 opened up a whole new world for me. It was a real camera and felt solid in my hands, but it was also a completely manual camera. No autofocus. No autoexposure. It forced me to learn the relationship between shutter speeds and f-stops, how to control...