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"mickey mantle holiday inn" Discussed on The Kitchen Sisters Present
"I've been on a road. Seventeen years and i've been the entire route sixty six you know. They used to have a A tv show called route. Sixty six. I used to watch those two guys that used to travel into carpet that similar the way we live just about this will travel to town and we're working while we play western music and we do everything from for all line to mona lost. Her smile new new thing on the market. I've gotta song that i've written one. Call a standing ovation. It pretty well. puts my outlook on things you know for the win worst-performing and the sun to stage and the wind later sweet melody so i gave a standing ovation to the wonders of god while mother nature entertain me mean. It's that's the it is. And i've got three standing ovations from the song you know from the public and i've had people even tell me that they've listened to the song enough that they stopped littering. The highways guidebook to highway sixty six mile by mile. Complete handbook on how to get most fun from your trip in nineteen forty-six jack rittenhouse published. The first and only travel guide to highway. Sixty six price one dollar. When i wrote the book. I anticipated that after the war after world war. Two there'd be a second big wave going west over sixty six. The first big one was probably the grapes of wrath people but with travel restricted during the war. People couldn't go fast and there were so many boys from all over the eastern part of the country that were stationed in california during the war. And i knew a lot of those fellows would want to go to california. Live act through a traffic on no way small tips. That might mean big comforts. Check your equipment. Be sure you have your auto jack one of those war surplus foxhole. Shovels may come in very handy for chilly nights early mornings. You might find a camp blanket or auto useful. It comes in handy if you find inadequate bedding in a tourist cabin anytime you see. Several huge trucks parked outside or roadside cafe. You can usually be assured of excellent coffee for these men who make long bribes nowhere stop. Sixty six was really something to travel very dangerous. Highway narrow wrecks were terrible. Many small towns had speed traps and they were constantly getting tourists there other than dangerous. It was beautiful. You went through every valley. Your you could stop at nearly any house and they're tgi if up until late fifties. If you had any trouble somebody would always stop and pull you to the next down or i. It was a forty nine fifty three chevrolet four door. Green and white beauty was a fifty five. Chevrolet station wagon red and white station wagon. Greg gaining grew up in chicago and spent most of his boyhood summers in a chevrolet taking family vacations along route. Sixty six we would get up early. We'd pack the carpet. Still be dark takeoff for our heaven on earth spot from night. Which was the mickey mantle. Holiday inn in joplin missouri. Right there on route. Sixty six was a shrine for my brother. And i the whole motif. The motel had to deal with. Mickey mantles career with the yankees. I always just assumed that he actually made. He was born in the parking lot of this motel. We had my trophies all around the walls and we had one room that was called the dugout. which was the lounge mickey mantle. All the sweets were named after Teammates of mine. Like mickey mantle. Sweet was the presidential suite or the nicest one and we had a yogi berra. Sweet and billy martin sweet and the whitey ford sweet base mickey mantle at bat for the counter one almost ranks. Here's the pitch mantle swings. There's a tremendous drive going into being going over the over the sign in the yard across the street. I guess probably the most important thing there to me is. I started playing for the baxter springs. Whiz kids And their ballpark was right on. I weigh sixty six and tom greenway. Who was a yankee scout was driving by there. One day when we're having a game and he stopped to watch the game and i hit three home runs All three.
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"mickey mantle holiday inn" Discussed on The Kitchen Sisters Present
"From the first days we started working together. And i drove around a lot to gals in one thousand nine hundred seventy two green dotson roaming the tri county area like buzzing todd minus the corvette through santa cruz monterey and san benito counties in california we were doing oral histories and recording. Everybody who moved cowboys and fishermen farmworkers italian grandmothers. This was in the day of cassettes and as we drove around we always talked about how great it would be to document the roads inside roads. We were travelling so people could just pop in a cassette and listen to the people around them as they drove on through. We never quite pulled off that cassette idea on a large scale but when davy moved east for a while we decided to try the idea out on route sixty six. She'd be driving a lot so that was the start. It was the end of the road. It was the last days surf route. Sixty six as we were traveling. I mean just trying to follow it at that. Point was a you know you drive down. Affronted tro that was the old highway. And then it would just bottom out. And there'd be broken asphalt or cactus. So we're trying to get icon of people from each stretch of the road and mickey mantle grew up on route sixty six. He played baseball team. Known as the baxter springs with kids the scout for the yankees with dr along route. Sixty six looking for up and coming ballplayers and manel hits this home. Run across the highway. And that's part of how he was spotted. So we're going. where can we find mickey mantle. We started to kind sniff around joplin missouri. The mickey mantle holiday inn. And someone said. Oh yeah there's a golf tournament going. On and mickey mantle. One of his sons. Were playing so. I just called the golf course. Said ma'am please speak to mr mantle. Suddenly there was mickey mantle on the telephone. We explain the story to him. And what we're doing in route sixty six and agrees to meet us and poor mickey. He could hardly walk by that time has knees. Were just blown out. Sorta bandy leg walks up one flight of stairs gets in the room. He just gives me a look and he just goes hallo. Did you get my phone number. And they had a temper. It was no joy mud villain that moment today on the kitchen. Sisters present route sixty six. The mother.
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"From the first days we started working together. And i drove around a lot to gals in one thousand nine hundred seventy two green dotson roaming the tri county area like buzzing todd minus the corvette through santa cruz monterey and san benito counties in california we were doing oral histories and recording. Everybody who moved cowboys and fishermen farmworkers italian grandmothers. This was in the day of cassettes and as we drove around we always talked about how great it would be to document the roads inside roads. We were travelling so people could just pop in a cassette and listen to the people around them as they drove on through. We never quite pulled off that cassette idea on a large scale but when davy moved east for a while we decided to try the idea out on route sixty six. She'd be driving a lot so that was the start. It was the end of the road. It was the last days surf route. Sixty six as we were traveling. I mean just trying to follow it at that. Point was a you know you drive down. Affronted tro that was the old highway. And then it would just bottom out. And there'd be broken asphalt or cactus. So we're trying to get icon of people from each stretch of the road and mickey mantle grew up on route sixty six. He played baseball team. Known as the baxter springs with kids the scout for the yankees with dr along route. Sixty six looking for up and coming ballplayers and manel hits this home. Run across the highway. And that's part of how he was spotted. So we're going. where can we find mickey mantle. We started to kind sniff around joplin missouri. The mickey mantle holiday inn. And someone said. Oh yeah there's a golf tournament going. On and mickey mantle. One of his sons. Were playing so. I just called the golf course. Said ma'am please speak to mr mantle. Suddenly there was mickey mantle on the telephone. We explain the story to him. And what we're doing in route sixty six and agrees to meet us and poor mickey. He could hardly walk by that time has knees. Were just blown out. Sorta bandy leg walks up one flight of stairs gets in the room. He just gives me a look and he just goes hallo. Did you get my phone number.