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• In 1926, Route 66 was officially commissioned, a 2,448-mile (3,940-km) road from Chicago to Los Angeles, winding through Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California. At the end of that year, just 800 miles (1,287 km) were paved. Road signs didn’t go up until the following year.

It wasn’t until 1938 that the entire route was paved, the first highway to have this completed.

• Because the route passed through hundreds of small towns, there was a dramatic increase in the number of “mom and pop” businesses, service stations, roadside diners, and motels. America’s first drive-through restaurant, Red’s Giant Hamburg opened along the road in Springfield, Missouri. The Cozy Dog Drive Inn, still in operation today in Springfield, Illinois, offered some of the route’s first fast food and the introduction of the corn dog. The first McDonald’s opened in 1945 in San Bernardino at the end of the road, offering 19_ cheeseburgers and 20_ malts. It’s now a museum and Route 66 historic site.

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• During the massive dust bowl storms of the 1930s in the Midwest, when millions of tons “I love the drive-thru window.

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7. The song “She’s Like the Wind” Route 66, in Holbrook, Arizona and Rialto, 1. What percent of Route 66 is still was used in which film?

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• Full-service gas stations popped up along the length of the route. One major company even took its name from the highway. In 1927, the Phillips Company’s newly-developed high-octane gasoline was tested along U.S. Highway 66 in Oklahoma. As the automobile reached its top speed, it was noted that the number was 66 mph (106 km/hr), a fast pace for that era.

The new fuel was named Phillips 66, and the company’s shield logo was designed to resemble the road sign.

• Near Amarillo, Texas, travelers can visit Cadillac Ranch, a row of 10 Cadillacs with the tailfins reaching to the sky. The cars, ranging from 1949 to 1963, are half-buried, nose first in the Texas countryside, the brainstorm of a Texas patron of the arts. It’s the only place in Texas where it is legal to spray graffiti on an object.

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ROUTE 66 (continued): • Restored to its original grandeur, the world’s largest ketchup bottle stands proudly near Collinsville, Illinois, formerly along Route 66. Built in 1949, this 170-ft.-tall (50-m) structure is actually a water tower painted like a Brooks Rich & Tangy Ketchup bottle, and could actually hold 640,000 14-oz. bottles of ketchup. The Brooks Company left the area in the 1970s.

• In 1946, songwriter Bobby Troup was on a crosscountry trip from Pennsylvania to Los Angeles and came up with the idea of writing a song about the journey. The result was “Get Your Kicks on Route 66,” a song that became a huge hit that year for Nat King Cole. When Troup had trouble coming up with lyrics for the tune, he simply filled it with names of towns along the way, starting with the Missouri cities of St. Louis and Joplin, then on to Oklahoma City, Amarillo, Texas, Gallup, New Mexico, the Arizona communities of Winona and Kingman, and California cities Barstow and San Bernardino. Of the eight states that Route 66 passed through, Kansas is the only state not mentioned in the song.

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ROUTE 66 (continued): • The 1939 AAA travel directory lists Cuba, Missouri’s Wagon Wheel Cabins as one of the finest motor courts in the state. Constructed in 1934 of Ozark stone, each cabin had its own private tub or shower bath with rates of $2.50 per day for two persons. It’s still in operation today. Cuba also opened Carr’s Phillips 66 service station in 1932 to accommodate the increase of travelers along the route.

• Route 66 began its slow decline in 1953, when Oklahoma opened the Turner Turnpike between Tulsa and Oklahoma, bypassing 100 miles and each of the towns along the road.

In 1956, President Eisenhower signed the Interstate Highway Act, calling for a modern four-lane highway system with no intersections. Service stations and commercial businesses were prohibited at the highway access sites and within a few short years, as small towns were bypassed, businesses began to fail from lack of traffic. In 1965, the Highway Beautification Act restricted the road signs that urged travelers to pull off the exit to reach Route 66.

• Route 66 was officially decommissioned and removed from the U.S. Highway system in 1985, and was taken off road maps. Motorists can no longer drive Route 66 uninterrupted from Chicago to Los Angeles. Parts of it are the “business loop” in many cities, while other sections are state and local roads, and some are completely abandoned. Several stretches have been preserved, with some having been placed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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• Sarah Bernhardt, the French star of stage and early film, who was often referred to as “the most famous actress the world has ever known” and “the divine Sarah,” often slept in a coffin. She said it helped her to better understand tragic roles.

• Have you ever suffered from ottorrhea? If you’ve had a pus-containing discharge from your ear, you have.

you may not be familiar with other nicknames he had. In college his perceived lack of a sense of humor prompted the name “Gloomy Gus,” and his tendency to spend long hours sitting and studying earned him the moniker “Iron Butt.”

• Records show that during the last seven months of Elvis Presley’s life, he had 5,300 different medications prescribed for him.

• In 1938, Fortune magazine published a prediction that, in hindsight, turns out to have been rather egregiously off the mark: “Few scientists foresee any serious or practical use for atomic energy. They regard the atom-splitting experiments as useful steps in the attempt to describe the atom more accurately, not as the key to the unlocking of any new power.”

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GRACE KELLY (continued): • Grace returned to America, going right back to work on a new movie in which, coincidentally, she played the part of a princess. She began corresponding with the prince, and at the end of the year, Rainier came to America, met Grace’s family, and after three days, proposed marriage.

The Kelly family was required to put up a dowry of $2 million in order for the marriage to take place.

• French law required both a civil and religious ceremony. The 40-minute civil ceremony was broadcast on April 18, 1956 from the Palace Throne Room of Monaco. That evening the couple attended the opera, where Grace was seen in a hand-embroidered silk gown embellished with 800,000 sequins and 1,500 pearls and rhinestones.

• The religious ceremony held the next day was attended by 600 guests and watched by 30 million people on television. Grace’s dress, designed and sewn by MGM Studio’s costume masters, used 25 yards of silk taffeta, 100 yards of silk net, and 125-year-old lace that had been purchased from a museum. Thirty-six seamstresses worked for six weeks to complete the gown. The couple invited the entire 3,000 adult population of Monaco to the celebration that followed. The principality’s citizens gifted the newlyweds with a cream and black Rolls Royce convertible.

• Following their seven-week Mediterranean honeymoon cruise aboard the Prince’s yacht, the couple settled into their 15th-century mansion, where they raised three children, Caroline, Albert, and Stephanie during their 26-year marriage. In 1982, while driving on a mountain road accompanied by Stephanie, Grace suffered a stroke and lost control of the vehicle, which plunged down the mountainside. Grace died the next day from her injuries at age 52.

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Moments in time • On Sept. 5, 1666, firefighters in London begin blowing up homes in a desperate attempt to halt the spread of a great fire through the city. By the time the fire was finally snuffed out the following day, more than 100,000 people had been left homeless.

• On Sept. 7, 1776, during the Revolutionary War, the 8-foot-long American submersible craft Turtle attempts to attach a time bomb to the hull of British Admiral Richard Howe’s flagship Eagle in New York Harbor. It was the first use of a submarine in warfare.

• On Sept. 6, 1915, a prototype tank nicknamed Little Willie rolls off the assembly line in England. It weighed 14 tons, got stuck in trenches and crawled over rough terrain at only 2 mph. For secrecy, production workers were told the vehicles would be used to carry water on the battlefield. The new vehicles were shipped in crates labeled “tank,” and the name stuck.

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his 2,500-horsepower car Bluebird made two runs over a 1-mile course at speeds averaging 301 mph.

• On Sept. 8, 1945, U.S. troops land in Korea to begin their postwar occupation of the southern part of that nation, almost exactly one month after Soviet troops had entered northern Korea to begin their own occupation. Although the U.S. and Soviet occupations were supposed to be temporary, the division of Korea quickly became permanent.

• On Sept. 2, 1969, America’s first automatic teller machine (ATM) makes its public debut, dispensing cash to customers at Chemical Bank in Rockville Center, N.Y. It wasn’t until 1971 that an ATM could handle multiple functions, including providing customers’ account balances.

• On Sept. 4, 1972, U.S. swimmer Mark Spitz wins his seventh gold medal at the Summer Olympics in Munich and establishes new world records in all the events. The record would stand until Michael Phelps took home eight gold medals at the Beijing Games in 2012.

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• The National Biscuit Company (later Nabisco) began manufacturing animal crackers in 1902, and labeled them “Barnum’s Animals” after circus showman P.T. Barnum. Boxes of crackers released during the holiday season that year were designed with a string attached to hang on a Christmas tree branch.

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ANIMAL CRACKERS (continued): • In 1958, Nabisco added new machinery that imDEERE. JOHN DEERE. (continued): proved the appearance of animal crackers. Ro•tary It was while living in Illinois that John no-of dies actually engraved intricate details ticedanimal the problems farmers faced when each onto thethat cracker.

Previously, they attempting to till soil.

Because the had were simply stamped out of a sheetarea of dough beenwere woodland, the soil only. was rich byformerly a cutter and animal-shaped with hummus, which clumped and clung to • Pick a box Animals today and the up blades of of theBarnum’s plows farmers were accusinside findWhile a bear, camel, acrocodile, tomedyou’ll to using. repairing broken cir-elephant, giraffe, gorilla, horse, lion, cular saw, Deere stumbled upon an seal, idea. tiger, He employed hiscrackers smith skills toThe fashion steel and zebra, 22 in all. onlythe four aniblade thebeen shape of a since plow.the Hebeginning affixed mals thatinto have around spokes, then the device aretwo thewooden bear, elephant, lion, hitched and tiger. to a horse. It plowed the heavy Illinois soil • Inlike 1930, Paramount Animal a charm.

In fact,Pictures a farmerreleased who happened Crackers, a zanythecomedy the put four to be observing test run starring immediately Marx Brothers, Groucho, Chico, Harpo, in an order for his own John Deere plow. and Zeppo. The plot revolved around a valuable • In short order, Deere gave up his blacksmith painting going missing during a party honorshop and focused on making plows. The ing a famous African Captain company grew steadilyexplorer and added many Geofemfrey Spaulding, played by Groucho.

The the film ployees. In the late 1840s, John relocated featured one of Groucho’s quoted lines, entire operation to Moline, most Illinois.

Ashamed “One morning I shot an elephant in my of his own lack of education, John sent pajahis mas.

How to he the got state’s in my pajamas, I don’tOne know.” children finest schools. of his proudest days occurred when son Charles • The 1935 film Curly Top featured the charming earned theShirley equivalent of an as MBA from Bell’s 7-year-old Temple an orphan, who Commercial College in Chicago. sang, “Animal crackers in my soup, monkeys •and With his son Charles managing company, rabbits loop the loop.”

The the song immediJohnbecame found time pursue philanthropic ately a hit,tolanding a spot on theinHit terests.

He co-founded both the First NationParade chart. The only glitch about this is that al Bank and never the First Congregational rabbits have been included in Church. a box of He was elected the mayor of Moline in 1873, Barnum’s Animals. where one of his first actions – the replace• How an animal cracker? mentdoofyou theeat city’s open drains withStudies a sewerindicate that nearly everyone bites thebyheads pipe system – saved countless lives reduc-off ing the spread of disease. first!

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