Retro Route 66 Unisex Jersey Tee | Amboy, CA: Home of Amboy Crater

Part of Our Route 66 Everytown Collection – Amboy Edition

Wear a piece of the Mojave's timeless legacy with this ultra-soft unisex jersey tee, expertly spun from 100% Airlume combed and ring-spun cotton. Featuring the slogan "Home of Amboy Crater," this tee celebrates Amboy, California: a legendary ghost town with a volcanic heart.

It's the perfect shirt for Route 66 explorers, geology buffs, or collectors of our exclusive Route 66 Everytown Collection, honoring Amboy's unique blend of history and geology.

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About Amboy, California: Where History and Geology Collide

Amboy is a stark, yet iconic outpost in the vast Mojave Desert, standing as a quintessential symbol of Route 66's enduring charm. Founded in 1883 as a railroad siding, Amboy truly boomed with the advent of U.S. Route 66 in 1926. For decades, it served as an essential stop for weary travelers, offering a lifeline of gas, food, and lodging in an otherwise unforgiving landscape. The town's fortunes were inextricably linked to the Mother Road, flourishing with businesses like Roy's Motel and Café, which opened in 1938 and became a celebrated landmark for its distinctive Googie architecture and towering neon sign.

Amboy's isolated location, once its greatest asset, became its undoing with the construction of Interstate 40 in 1973. The new interstate bypassed the town entirely, rerouting the flow of traffic and effectively transforming Amboy into a ghost of its former self. Today, Amboy is largely preserved in its weathered state, a poignant relic of a bygone era.

One of Amboy's most striking natural attractions is the Amboy Crater. Located just a few miles south of the town, this dormant cinder cone volcano is a designated National Natural Landmark. Formed approximately 79,000 years ago, with its most recent eruption around 10,000 years ago, the crater rises dramatically 250 feet above the surrounding flat desert floor. Its remarkably symmetrical cone and the vast, dark lava flows that sprawl around its base create an otherworldly landscape, a stark geological contrast to the golden hues of the Mojave.

Roy's Motel and Café, though not always fully operational, remains a powerful magnet for Route 66 enthusiasts and photographers, drawn to its iconic sign and the palpable sense of history clinging to its weathered walls.

Tody, Amboy exists in a state of beautiful suspension, neither fully alive nor completely abandoned. Instead it is preserved as an authentic monument to the rise and fall (and rise again!) of the Mother Road.

The handful of residents who call this remote outpost home maintain a quiet vigil over the town's legacy, occasionally welcoming the steady trickle of road-trippers, photographers, and history seekers who make the pilgrimage off Interstate 40. Standing on Amboy's silent main street, with Roy's neon sign towering overhead and the ancient volcanic crater looming in the distance, visitors experience something increasingly rare in our modern world: a genuine, unvarnished connection to mid-century America.

There are no gift shops selling mass-produced nostalgia, no staged gun battles: just the honest remnants of a community that thrived, declined, and now serves as a powerful reminder that the journey itself, not the destination, was always Route 66's true promise. For those willing to venture into the Mojave's heart, Amboy offers what it always has: a moment of pause, reflection, and wonder in the vastness of the great Mojave Desert.

Product Features:

100% Airlume combed and ring-spun cotton for premium softness
Side seams for added structure and durability
Tear-away label for comfort
Classic crew neckline with a flattering unisex fit - true-to-size for all day comfort (see size chart for details)
Fulfilled in the USA