Winslow standing on the corner
— — the corner a song built a town around.
Not only on a wall.
“A small park at Second Street and Kinsley Avenue in downtown Winslow, built around the line Jackson Browne and Glenn Frey wrote into Take It Easy in 1972. A bronze statue of a young man with a guitar stands at the curb, a flatbed Ford painted on the wall behind him, a trompe-l'oeil window with a girl looking down. La Posada, the last of the great Fred Harvey railroad hotels, sits a few blocks east beside the Santa Fe mainline. Quiet most weekday mornings, busy by lunch. from the studio
Winslow standing on the corner, on ceramic.
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Standin' on the Corner Park occupies the southwest corner of Second Street and Kinsley Avenue in downtown Winslow, on the original alignment of US Route 66. The park was dedicated in 1999 by the Standin' on the Corner Foundation to commemorate the line in the Eagles' 1972 song Take It Easy. A bronze statue of a guitar-carrying figure stands at the curb beside a two-storey trompe-l'oeil mural by John Pugh, and a flatbed Ford pickup is parked permanently at the kerb. A second statue, of Glenn Frey, was added in 2016.
Jackson Browne began writing Take It Easy in 1971 and gave the unfinished song to his neighbour Glenn Frey, who completed the second verse and recorded it with the Eagles for their debut album in 1972. The verse opens with the line that put Winslow on the map: standing on a corner, watching a girl in a flatbed Ford. Winslow lost a railroad-and-highway economy after the Santa Fe consolidated operations and Interstate 40 bypassed downtown in the late 1970s; the park, dedicated September 10, 1999, was the first deliberate move to rebuild the town around its one famous line.
The park is open to the street, free to visit, and busiest from late morning through mid-afternoon. The corner sits in a four-block downtown that includes La Posada Hotel, the 1930 Mary Colter-designed Fred Harvey property restored and reopened in 1997, with the Turquoise Room restaurant and a working Amtrak platform on the Southwest Chief route. Winslow Lindbergh Regional Airport is three miles southeast; Flagstaff is fifty-eight miles west on I-40 and Holbrook is thirty-three miles east. Elevation at the park is 4,905 feet, so summer evenings cool quickly after sundown.