Discovery: Route 66 postmarkart
I was going through photos of some past road trips and found this piece at the Route 66 Museum in Kingman, Arizona. We were there in November 2021, and there was a poster collage on the wall showing 250 postmarks from all along Route 66 and nearby landmarks. The collector even got a postmark from Cadiz, CA on the last day of issue (29 Dec 1995), and the postmark for the 100th Anniversary of Supai AZ, the town at the bottom of the Grand Canyon where the mail can only be delivered by mule. The poster was accompanied by a lengthy news story. The postmark art was created by Ken Turmel, a former postal worker who spent years and drove thousands of miles to gather all the postmarks shown. The print was 2 feet by 3 feet in size and was available for sale. Bill Clinton is said to own a copy, along with Reba McEntire and Moody Blues members Justin Hayward and Mike Pinder. Looking at it now, I wish I had taken the time to get better photos. But I'm not here to ...