The El Vado Taproom beer bar on historic U.S. Route 66 — the old “Mother Road” from Chicago, Illinois, to Santa Monica, California, during the “golden years” of family automobile travel from the 1930s to 1950s — as it winds, still largely intact, through Albuquerque, the largest city in New Mexico. The rooftop bags are “luminaria” — small lanterns of real or facsimile bags holding torches, candles, or small lightbulbs. They are a traditional New Mexico year-end holiday decoration. Photo by Carol Highsmith 2020.