Coffee With Jim

It was an era of unprecedented opportunity, for those with vision, with passion, and with ambition. The world’s largest manufacturer of household items such as birdcages and ice boxes transformed into the manufacturer of luxury automobiles. Twin brothers manufactured violins and launched a photographic empire before turning their attention to steam cars. Opportunity and innovation were the order of the day when the world stood poised between the stirrup and the throttle. 

This weeks program is sponsored in part by Roadrunner Lodge in Tucumcari, New Mexico, a near perfect blending of the past and present, a living time capsule where the traveler is assured a restful night’s sleep after an adventuresome day on Route 66 and through the magic of crowdfunding - www.patreon.com/jimhinckleysamerica

Welcome to another episode of 5 Minutes with Jim. In 1901, Alexander Winton of the Winton Motor Carriage Company made a valiant effort to drive across the United States and made a grueling drive from San Francisco to Nevada. In 1903, Dr. Horatio Jackson succeeded where Winton had failed. In 1911, AAA hired A. L. Westgard to map automobile roads in the west. Four years later Edsel Ford and several thousand people drove to the Panama Pacific Exposition in California.

It's another bit of time travel back to the dawning of the great American road trip with America's storyteller, author Jim Hinckley 

This program is sponsored in part by the Roadrunner Lodge in Tucumcari, New Mexico, a touch of 1960s swank on Route 66. It is also sponsored thought the magic of crowdfunding -www.patreon.com/jimhinckleysamerica