High-heeled Shoe Tree

At the High-heeled Shoe Tree

The High-heeled Shoe Tree is located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The "shoe tree" is in front of a private residence, the home of an artist and the creator of the shoe tree. The piece consists solely of dozens of pairs of lady's high heeled shoes nailed from bottom to top of a telephone pole. 

The outside of the well-kept home is covered in strange things such as flower beds enclosed by bowling balls (some with railroad spikes embedded in them) or half-buried bottles of different colors, a huge ball of colored cloth strips, a home-made telescope made of cast-off wood, bleached animal skulls and sculpted wire figures. Lil Dude Troll felt right at home!

Shoes, shoes, shoes

Bowling ball ringed flower garden

Home-made telescope made of wood & cast-off pieces of junk

Rolled up fireman's hose of colored cloth

El Rancho Hotel in Gallup, NM.

At the famous El Rancho Hotel on Route 66 in Gallup, New Mexico. United States presidents and movie stars like John Wayne, Katherine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Errol Flynn, Kirk Douglas, Gregory Peck, and Humphrey Bogart have visited here. And so has Lil Dude!

See the full write-up here.

Cline's Corners, New Mexico

At Cline's Corners on Route 66 in New Mexico.

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The Blue Swallow Motel

At the Blue Swallow Motel on Route 66 in Tucumcari, New Mexico.

Visiting the Blue Swallow Motel.

Lil Dude & James Dean - at the Blue Swallow Motel.