New Route 66 book launches in Kingman next week September 11, 2010
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A new book from Voyageur Press, “Greetings from Route 66,” will be launched on Sept. 18 during the Chillin’ on Beale Street event in Kingman, Ariz.
The book-launch event is sponsored by the Kingman Route 66 Association, and will be from 5 to 10 p.m. that day. Kingman resident and author Jim Hinckley, who’s written several books and contributed an essay to “Greetings from Route 66,” will be there.
More about the book:
Greetings from Route 66 has a subtitle that says it all: The Ultimate Road Trip Back Through America’s Main Street. Illustrated with over 700 vintage photographs, postcards, travel decals, collectibles and other memorabilia and filled with essays and photography by renowned Route 66 authorities Jim Hinckley, Michael Karl Witzel, Russell A. Olsen, Kathy Weiser, Kerrick James, Lee Klancher and others, Greetings from Route 66 is the ultimate celebration of the “Mother Road”.
And more about the event next Saturday:
Special guest Bob “Boze” Bell, editor of True West Magazine and a former Kingman resident whose father, Al Bell, owned the Flying A gas station in Kingman (profiled in the book), will give away a signed copy of Greetings from Route 66 to one lucky winner. A special commemorative Greetings from Route 66 dash magnet has been created and will be presented to the owners of the first 200 vehicles sporting any Route 66 promotional material from bumper sticker, antenna ball, or home made poster to a Route 66 postcard, brochure or map. Additional prizes include free passes to the Route 66 museum at the Kingman Power House Visitor Center, and a signed Route 66 print by Jim Hinckley.
The Chillin’ with Beale Street event also includes a car show.
A look at Route 66 Days September 10, 2010
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Last year, the Flagstaff Convention and Visitors Bureau had a prime view of the Route 66 Days car show in town, as you will see.
The Flagstaff Route 66 Car Club is hosting the event this weekend. More than 400 entrants will be there.
A tour of Route 66 Vintage Iron September 10, 2010
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Here’s a video of someone walking through the Route 66 Vintage Iron Motorcycle Museum in Miami, Okla.
The most fascinating part, in my opinion, is the accounting of Evel Knievel’s many broken bones, including his X-rays.
If you like motorcycle museums, I’d be remiss to not mention the Seaba Station Motorcycle Museum in Warwick, Okla., about 150 miles away.
Music duo embarking on partial Route 66 tour September 10, 2010
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The Nashville-based duo Jeff and Vida are going on a partial Route 66 tour this month to promote their new album, “Selma Chalk.”
Jeff Burke and Vida Wakeman, who are husband and wife, play all-acoustic music that’s described as bluegrass, old country and Americana. Four supporting musicians are part of the band.
According to their tour itinerary, they’ll play at the Blue Dome Diner in Tulsa on Sept. 15, the Golden Light Cantina in Amarillo on Sept. 16, at a Southwest Pickers Concert in Albuquerque, and finish their time on the Mother Road at Pickin’ in the Pines festival in Flagstaff, Ariz.
Jeff and Vida’s Facebook page is here. Samples of their music can be heard on their MySpace page.
(Hat tip: Amarillo Globe-News; photo courtesy of Jeff & Vida)
Using video to promote print September 10, 2010
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We’ve been seeing this a lot more in recent years, and it will continue to grow more popular — using video to promote books.
In this case, it’s Cheryl Eichar Jett for her upcoming books from Arcadia Publishing, “Route 66 in Springfield” and “Route 66 in Madison County.”
Both books will be in stores on Sept. 20. Jett will have a book-signing on Sept. 23 at the Cozy Dog Drive-In in Springfield, Ill. She will also be at the International Route 66 Mother Road Festival in Springfield on Sept. 24-26.
The cutest little town in Carburetor County September 9, 2010
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Roy Martinez Jr. began in January 2009 to build a miniature version of the fictional Route 66 town of Radiator Springs, as depicted from the hit 2006 animated film “Cars,” as part of a model train set.
Except for some shrubbery and foliage he’ll add later, Martinez reports that his own version Radiator Springs is finished. He also painted some “Cars”-related murals in the room. Here are photos that he provided:
The 4-by-10-foot miniature set can be found at his business, Rapid Force Exhaust Technology LLC, in La Habra, Calif.
(Photos courtesy of Roy Martinez Jr.)
Scenes from a desolate desert September 9, 2010
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Ry Cooder‘s slide guitar score from the movie “Paris, Texas” — and these desert photos, many from Route 66 — cast a desolate but lovely mood in this video.