Investigate McLean Motel & Gas Station

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Exploring ABANDONED Route 66 with My Racecar! (Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma)

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What happens here

The explorer pulls off Route 66 in McLean, Texas, to examine an abandoned motel and a nearby gas station. He notes the motel's overgrown parking lot and dilapidated rooms with boarded-up doors and broken windows. He then moves to a gas station structure across the street, finding old credit card logos (Mastercard from 1979-1990, Discover Novus from 1985-1996) on the signs that help date its closure to the late 80s or early 90s. He cautiously enters the adjacent building, observing discarded parts, tools, and personal items, including *diapers* and *paint cans* left behind. He notes the building seems relatively untouched by vandals compared to other sites.

Goal: Explore multiple abandoned commercial properties in McLean, Texas

Tools and materials

Camera GoPro — Documenting the sites
Flashlight — Illuminating dark interiors

What they say

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all right hopefully off the shamrock now actually hopefully not oh I like to find something else equally as cool it benefit to be was another person in this scenario like this cousin back up if you got caught snooping or you know step on something hurt yourself flying solos not yeah but all I got [Music] glad I turn around those neat I do some research on that place - GPS is telling me to merge on the ivory then turn right to merge onto i-40 East yeah how about no I'm not gonna do that you can miss some cool stuff Percy - the road shut off God enjoy point eight miles take a slight left turn to merge onto i-40 East know some of these sections of old 66 are some pretty nice concrete hurt they work pretty good for tests it's not that I would know how chased and Ronnie found a gas station this is why I didn't hop back on 40 this one doesn't even look like it's that old that guy owns his place he's about to shoot me or if I just gather the Doppler I don't think he's affiliated with this place but it could be and there is a fence there waived all right I'm going in having this thing on a trail that really gets me out a lot of suspicion I think because I think they know I'm not some piece of crap who's gonna vandalize stuff and I'm just like here look at cool things trash cans still full they just closed up shop like down we're not gonna take out the trash browsers leave it here it's for sale well sick it's gonna set up shop here something going off my gut those lights look like they're 70s or 80s could be wrong well it looks like this place was big rig friendly to some extent because they got like I'll pull around things through here it's buzzing up there so that's cool all kinds of old parts in here still too old Colorado Rockies coke bottle oil filter bunch of oil filters and spray paint and Fram boxes anybody able to date locate the like the era the MasterCard logo look like that drop a comment let me know that'd be one way to figure out last time this place had any effort it put into it the paving here is totally gone so it's uh it's been a while this place haven't been ravaged too much probably because unlike most abandoned places in urban areas 99% of people drive right on by never stopped to look at anything like this ah cactuses cacti and I'm just clapping around here like I don't notice I'm glad it and step one of those how about these logos here that MasterCard one looks newer than those I almost wonder if that back half of the station would shut down…

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