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Route 66 News
Odell Station in miniature | | Willem Bor, a resident of the Netherlands who has created miniature versions of Route 66 landmarks, has finished a new one — the historic Odell Station in Odell, Ill., in 1/25th scale. Bor even made a miniature of the travel trailer that sits next to it. More of Bor’s work can be seen here, here, [...] | | 2/5/2012 10:47:23 AM |
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Singer-songwriter leading a Route 66 tour | | Fred Eaglesmith, a veteran singer-songwriter whose tunes have been recorded by Miranda Lambert, Toby Keith, Alan Jackson, and other musicians, is the headliner for a Route 66 Tin Can Caravan on the Mother Road in September. A few details about the tour from the website: An eighteen-day road trip down Historic Route 66, from Chicago [...] | | 2/5/2012 10:38:29 AM |
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The legendary blizzard of 1956 | | I stumbled today onto this story in the The Courier of Montgomery County, Texas, about a freak blizzard that struck the Plains of New Mexico and Texas on Feb. 4, 1956. The storm blanketed snow from Amarillo to the north, Tucumcari, N.M., to the west, and Wink to the south. Even El Paso got 5 [...] | | 2/4/2012 3:48:41 PM |
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El Garces makes slow progress | | It’s been slow, but the Needles (Calif.) Desert Star reported this week that the effort to restore and eventually reopen the historic El Garces hotel, restaurant, and railroad depot in Needles is making progress. The stumbling point has been whether the Federal Transportation Administration will approve a joint operating agreement between El Garces LLC and the [...] | | 2/4/2012 4:11:29 AM |
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Wigwam Motel in Rialto named to National Register | | The Wigwam Motel on Route 66 in Rialto, Calif., was placed on the National Register of Historic Places effective Jan. 3, according to an email Thursday afternoon from the National Park Service. The Wigwam, which features individual motel cabins in the shape of tepees, was nominated in late 2011; its inclusion on the National Register was [...] | | 2/3/2012 4:03:06 AM |
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San Bernardino, California
When Brigham Young called his pioneering Saints back to Utah, the quiet desert way-station in the San Bernardino Valley became a hell-raising wild west town, complete with soiled doves, gambling hall, and saloons.
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