Coffee With Jim

Coffee With Jim

It's a special Route 66 travel planning program. Author Jim Hinckley talks travel guides, navigation apps, festivals and events, motels, and provides an array of tips for getting the most from your Route 66 adventure. Grab a paper and pencil, take notes, and make plans to discover why Route 66 is the most famous highway in America. 

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They are three uniquely American automobile. One is still remembered as the ultimate luxury performance car. One was plagued with issues but overcame them all to become known as America's sports car. And one has become forever associated with automotive lemons. 
On today's program America's storyteller shares the story of the mighty Duesenberg, the Corvette, and the lowly Edsel. And the first clue is provided for a new contest with the grand prize being a copy of Jim Hinckley's latest book, Here We Are ... On Route 66. 
Today's program is sponsored by Uranus Fudge Company & General Store, the ultimate Route 66 atraction and a landmark for a new generation of road trip enthusiasts. 

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His name was Cadwallader Washburn Kelsey, Carl to friends. He was a tinkerer fascinated by automobiles. And he was a marketing genius that as the sales manager for Maxwell transformed the company into an industry leader. He developed the first filmed automobile commercial and pioneered automotive marketing geared toward women. 
His Motorette was unique. It could have transformed the auto industry. But sabotage ended the endeavor just as the company was begining to soar. 
Todays program is sponsored in part by RouteTrip USA, the bespoke road trip professionals for a grand adventure in the US or Canada. 

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Tesla represents more than an evolutionary milestone in the history of the automobile. It is a tangible link to the dawning of the auto industry when independent auto manufacturers survived and thrived through innovation. 
On this mornings program America's storyteller shares the tale of two manifestations of that independent thinking from the 1970s - the Gremlin and Pacer manufactured by AMC. Rarely seen today, both cars were hot sellers. And they set new industry standards. 
Today's program is sponsored in part by magical, delightful, wonderful Tucumcari, New Mexico. 

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Road trips and food, that is the topic of discussion this morning. Presidential breakfasts in Fort Wayne, Indiana. A sauerkraut and corned beek skillet for breakfast or Greek stuffed potato. A superb hickory smoked beef brisket in Arizona. Great Mexican food in Albuquerque. Route 66 favorites. 
On this episode America's storyteller inspires a road trip or two, and stirs the appetite. 
Today's program is sponsored in part by the bespoke road trip specialists for a grand holiday in the US or Canada at RouteTrip USA. 

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On this episode America's storyteller wraps up a series of true crime stories selected from his book Murder and Mayhem on The Main Street of America: Tales From Bloody 66. 
Arthur Eggers was an average Joe. He was just a face in the crowd. And he was a cold blooded murderer that used Cajon Pass as his dumping ground. 
Today's program is sponsored in part by RouteTrip USA, the bespoke roadtrip specialists for a grand aventure in the US or Canada. 

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Our walk on the dark side of Route 66 continues with the tale of William Cook and his murder spree through Oklahoma, Texas and California. It is the tragic story of a young man who never had a chance. 
From infancy he had been driven to rage and violence, and turned to crime at an early age. Then he headed west from Joplin along US 66 and left a trail of death in his wake. 
On today's program America's storyteller shares another story of Murder and Mayhem On The Main Street of America: Tales From Bloody 66. 
This program is sponsored in part by the Wagon Wheel Motel in Cuba, Missouri. No mere motel, this is a living time capsule and the very essence of Route 66 made manifest.

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In an era when murderous gangsters such as Bonnie and Clyde dominated headlines almost daily, a particulary tragic incident on Saturday, January 2, 1932, stunned the nation. Until the horrors of September 11, 2001, in New York City, and Washington D.C., the incident now known as the Young Brothers Massacre held the record for the largest number of law enforcement officers killed in a single incident.
Today, except in Jim Hinckley's America, the tragic gunfight is largely a forgotten historic footnote. On this program America's storyteller author Jim Hinckley shares this story of murder and mystery. 
Today's program is sponsored in part by the iconic Wagon Wheel Motel in Cuba, Missouri, and RouteTrip USA, the bespoke travel specialists for a grand road trip holiday in the US or Canada.