Old Ranch House Café Ruins

This dismal-looking structure with its broken neon sign had its heyday in the 1950s. Just as dilapidated but a little more interesting is an old Chevy truck with a strange covered bed. No one is sure when the "Mexican Food" was added to the sign as it is absent from a vintage 1950s postcard photograph of the cafe. This is just one of the many abandoned spots along the "Mother Road" Route 66 which was an important route that ran from L.A. to Chicago.