NOTE: This year marks the hundredth anniversary of Route 66, one of the United States first intercontinental highways, spanning 2278 miles (3665 km) from Santa Monica, California, to Chicago, Illinois. As such, I will be sharing some images taken at various locations along the highway throughout the coming months.

The Wigwam Motel along historic Route 66 is one of Southern California’s most memorable roadside attractions. Built in 1949, it’s known for its distinctive teepee-shaped guest rooms, each standing about 32 feet tall and arranged in a village-style layout right along Foothill Boulevard, the old alignment of Route 66. The motel was the seventh and final Wigwam Village constructed by designer Frank A. Redford, part of a unique series of roadside lodging sites built between the 1930s and late 1940s that embraced eye-catching novelty architecture to draw in travelers. Only three of the original seven Wigwam Villages survive today.

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