The Town House Restaurant – Albuquerque, New Mexico (CLOSED)
America’s highway system expansion which began in the 1930s not only “shrank” America, it introduced the entertaining, educational–some might say bizarre–phenomenon of the roadside attraction. Entrepreneurs competed with each other to create gawk-inspiring, curiosity motivating, must-see-to-believe attractions to snare the attention of motorists and motivate them to part with some of their money. Neon lights festooned Route 66 while fiberglass and concrete statues became part-and-parcel of America’s highways and byways. This was true roadside art which became a part of the fabric of Americana, albeit a kitschy tradition fading with the passage of time (which aptly describes many of the statues themselves). Among the most famous statuary art are life-sized fiberglass statues of stocky steers (corpulent cows and beefy bulls,…