Winslow Arizona

Winslow is about 30 miles west of Holbrook.  It is a broken-down town on the old Route 66.  When we were there, the downtown was littered with trash, broken bottles and old winos.  It did not seem to be a place where one would want to be out in the evening.  Holbrook seems a safer place.  Winslow does, however, have a Super WalMart on the edge of town.  But that may have contributed to the downtown's demise.

There is one gift store downtown on the corner of Kinsley Avenue and Second Street catering to Route 66 fans.  There was a non stop Eagle's concert playing on a wide screen television inside.  Why you ask?  Because of the 1973 Eagles' hit "Take it Easy" written by Jackson Browne and Glen Frey:

Well, I'm a standin' on a corner in Winslow, Arizona,

and such a fine sight to see

It's a girl, my Lord, in a flatbed Ford,

slowin' down to take a look at me

And of course, across the street from the store is "Standin on the Corner" Park with it's flat bed Ford and a girl looking at me:

Watch the Eagles' video of  "Take it Easy" here.