When we were leaving Needles, we back tracked the route 66 stuff we missed the day before.
On you left side of the road at 201 E Broadway St. you can see empty cabins, a former office building and to the left is the vacant service station. This place was known as Carty's Camp. It had a flat box shaped canopy that promoted, "Lunch, hot-cold drinks and Groceries and also gas, lubrication and batteries.
William Carty and Dick Mansker opened it in 1923, before Route 66 was created. William bought out Mansker and sold it to Howard Carmody in 1940. At the time there was 28 cabins.
Carmody switched from Shell to Standard Oil. When Howard left to enlist to the US Army in 1943, it was run by S. Stewart. After the war Howard sold it to the Ames who ran it until 1971 with Chevron when they closed for good.
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