ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) — The Route 66 Casino officially kicked off their Centennial celebration weekend earlier on Friday. The celebration honors 100 years of the Mother Road.
Earlier today, leaders started the festivities by unveiling a Route 66 Centennial monument, and burying a time capsule that will be opened exactly 100 years from now.
“What we have here is a time capsule that’ll hermetically seal all these documents,” said Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Gary Murray. “That’s gonna open this thing up 100 years, and all those people, our grandchildren, are gonna see what we had and what we went through, and what we enjoy today.”…