by Jim Hinckley | Apr 28, 2019 | Kingman, Our Area, Travel, Uncategorized
The hulking Tufa stone walls of the Brunswick Hotel, currently for sale, casts long shadows on Route 66 in the late afternoon. Perhaps the most notable event associated with the hotel was an impromptu reception held for Clark Gable and Carol Lombard after they married...
by Jim Hinckley | Apr 21, 2019 | Kingman, Our Area, Travel, Uncategorized
At the west end of Locomotive Park in Kingman, Arizona is a monument to the nations veterans, and another dedicated to Lt. Beale and his camel caravan. On the opposite of Beale Street, on the corner with Grandview Avenue is Metcalf Park, another delightful oasis. At...
by Jim Hinckley | Mar 30, 2019 | Kingman, Our Area, Travel, Uncategorized
With the passing of time legend and fact, history and myth become so entwined it can become difficult to separate fact from fiction. The story of Kingman has become tangled a web of history and myth, and the latter has often been repeated enough to be taken as fact....
by Jim Hinckley | Mar 19, 2019 | Kingman, Our Area, Travel, Uncategorized
The evidence is overwhelming. Route 66 is the most famous highway in America. Attendance of the second European Route 66 Festival in Zlin, Czech Republic last August was counted in the tens of thousands. There are active Route 66 associations in Europe, Japan, Canada,...
by Jim Hinckley | Mar 16, 2019 | Golden Valley, Kingman, Our Area, Travel, Uncategorized
The Beale Wagon Road proved to be a popular trail for westward bound immigrants in the post Civil War period and into the 1870s. It would also play a pivotal role in the development of the Arizona territories. The experiment with the use of camels wasn’t quite as...
