6Glenrio, Texas and New Mexico

Glenrio was founded in 1903.  Straddling the border between New Mexico and Texas, travelers stopped visiting this town after the I-40 was constructed in the early 1970s.  It withered away to be little more than a bit of Route 66 nostalgia.  The Little Juarez Cafe is boarded up now, but it remains the first and the last motel and cafe in Texas.

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