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The motel sign graveyard outside Tucumcari
Forty neon signs, one acre of desert, and the man who won't let them rust.
Andrew Historyyap.com/andrew-history · JUN 7, 2026 · 8 MIN READ
Two miles past the last working motel on Tucumcari's main drag, behind a chain-link fence with no sign of its own, forty dead neon signs stand in rows in the dirt like a crop somebody planted and forgot.