Norms has operated chains across southern California since 1949.
Map of the Southern Pacific Route through Arizona Map of Southern Pacific through Arizona. La Cienegas Norms Restaurant is is still one of the most unique chain restaurants in the land. Even today, if you drive around Los Angeles, youll see relics of.
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Both are essential stops for any Jetsons-age traveler, though the refurbishment after a fire has diminished the 1960s Space Age charm. The Space Age left a sleekly modern mark on everything from office parks to kitchenware to kids TV shows like The Jetsons. The rooms were just rooms, but the outside, the lobby, and the restaurant were fun. Marked by a flying-saucer-shaped sign, it’s part of the Best Western Space Age Lodge motel (928/683-2273, $80 and up). Best Western Space Age Lodge is a AAA - 2 star hotel in Gila Bend. One place to eat is the Space Age Restaurant (401 E. First settled as a main stop on the Butterfield Stage route, Gila Bend doesn’t offer much relief for the senses, though it does have some photogenic old motels and all the gas stations, restrooms, and restaurants you could reasonably expect to find in the middle of the Arizona desert. 2,094) is regularly the “Hottest Spot in the Country”-a title of which it is so proud that, more than once, it’s been caught inflating the numbers. The theming of the restaurant was out of this world, and I can see why kids would love it. Carly Caramanna I spent 150 dining at Epcots Space 220 lounge at Disney World, and I wasnt blown away. The only place approaching a town between Yuma and Phoenix or Tucson, Gila Bend (pop. Space 220 restaurant in Epcot has a separate lounge area with drinks and appetizers. The top-quality, hand-pollinated Medjool dates are grown in the adjacent 9-ac (3.6 ha) grove. Dateland has a 24-hour gas station, a café (928/454-2772), an RV park, and a gift shop selling dates in all possible forms, including refreshing date milk shakes. Take I-8 exit 42, then head north across the railroad tracks.Īnother great middle-of-nowhere desert oasis, along I-8 at milepost 67, is Dateland, 67 mi (108 km) east of Yuma and 49 mi (79 km) west of Gila Bend.
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If you’re hungry, the flyspeck ranching community of Tacna has a great place to eat burgers, lamb chops, and a full menu of other Spanish and American dishes: Basque Etchea (928/785-4027, Tues.-Sun.). Army Proving Ground, the I-8 freeway follows the route of early Spanish explorers and settlers on the flat but forbidding El Camino del Diablo, along the banks of the usually dry Gila River.Įast of 1,092-ft-high (333 m) Telegraph Pass, 16 mi (26 km) outside Yuma, the old US-80 highway reappears along the north side of the freeway, running through old-time desert outposts. Space 220, Disneys new restaurant offering guests a chance to dine in Earth orbit, opened this week after a five-year countdown. December 1960 Kodachrome slide scan by VLV. The interior of the 150-seat restaurant comes with a price tag rumoured to have topped 3 million, but the offering isn’t as fine dining as Franca. Spanning 110 mi (177 km) of barren desert east of Yuma, between the U.S. Polynesian restaurant Aku Aku came to Stardust earlier in the year.
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