Sign for the Hiway House motel on historic U.S. Route 66 — the onetime “Mother Road” from Chicago, Illinois, to Santa Monica, California,
during the “golden years” of family automobile travel — as it winds, still largely intact, through Albuquerque, the largest city in New Mexico. Sleep may have been the motel’s business, per the sign, and despite its empty message, this remnant of a small motel chain founded in 1956 was still operating when this image was taken in 2020. Photo by Carol Highsmith 2020.