As travel along Route 66 increased, Laguna community members developed roadside trade by selling pottery, beadwork, crafts, curios, bread, pies, tamales, and seasonal produce from shade structures and cedar branch shelters within the Pueblo and on adjoining lands, while barter with tourists also brought in items uncommon in tribal communities. Along with this roadside commerce, permanent businesses such as trading posts, gas stations, garages, convenience stores, and motels emerged under both tribal and non-tribal ownership. Route 66 also became part of community memory through travel for boarding school, trade, and work, especially after completion of the Laguna Cut-off in 1937, as Laguna residents journeyed by horseback, wagon, bus, and later car to places including Gallup, Albuquerque, and other Pueblos to exchange pottery, mutton, squash, and pumpkins for alfalfa, wheat, straw, corn, chiles, fruit, and ceremonial items. Laguna Feast Day on September 19 drew visitors from other communities who arrived days early to trade, sell, and socialize, with many Native American families camping by wagon outside Laguna and bringing mutton, weavings, jewelry, fresh produce, pottery, and other handmade wares. During the Dust Bowl and Depression, local campgrounds and cabins hosted westbound migrants from places such as Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and the East, and local people sometimes gave them enough money to continue their journeys.