Here's an excerpt from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's "What's Happening" calendar for Saturday: Scotty's Route 66 Restaurant and Bar is sponsoring Summer Fest 2006 with music, vendors, food, beverages, craft booths, historical displays, games, a dunking booth and miniature golf tournaments. Open to the public and for children of all ages. Noon Saturday at Old … Continue reading Restaurant throwing its own festival
Month: June 2006
Meeting set for Saturday on endangered Rod’s Grill
I received an e-mail today from Jim Conkle of the California Route 66 Preservation Foundation that says a preservation meeting concerning the endangered Rod's Grill in Arcadia, Calif., will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at the restaurant at 41 W. Huntington Drive. Preservationists will be there to collect signatures on petitions. The city is … Continue reading Meeting set for Saturday on endangered Rod’s Grill
More details released about Route 66 newspaper
It was previously announced here that Route 66 Pulse, a newspaper devoted to Mother Road, announced it will debut its first issue this month at the Route 66 Festival in Albuquerque. More details about the newspaper came out Wednesday. The New Mexico Business Weekly reported that the first print run will be 25,000 copies, distributed … Continue reading More details released about Route 66 newspaper
“Cars” movie news roundup
The reports on the upcoming "Cars" movie, which opens wide June 9, are coming hot and heavy. Roger Colton of Jim Hill Media has a review of Michael Wallis' and Suzanne Fitzgerald Wallis' companion book to the movie, "The Art of Cars." But remember where you read the first review. 😉 Dark Horizons has an … Continue reading “Cars” movie news roundup