Kingman Arizona

Welcome To My Neighborhood

by jimhinckleysamerica | April 13, 2021 | Adventure, community development, ghost town, Kingman Arizona, Lifestyle, Miscellaneous, ROUTE 66, Route 66 authors, ROUTE 66 EVENTS, Travel, Travel Tips | 0 Comments

It was mid summer 1966 when we followed the flow of traffic on Route 66 into Kingman, Arizona. Even though I was just a kid, I was no stranger to travel. My folks liked to tease that my toilet training had taken place along the highway and in service station rest...

Well, That Was Interesting

by jimhinckleysamerica | March 26, 2021 | Adventure, community development, Kingman Arizona, Lifestyle, ROUTE 66, Route 66 authors, Travel | 0 Comments

Few things in life serve as milestones to mark the passing of time better than a visit to the old homestead of my youth. The house is now empty. Its windows broken and the door is standing wide with sand dunes spread across the floor. The roof on the cavernous garage...

Inspiration, Road Trips & Interesting Discoveries

by jimhinckleysamerica | March 13, 2021 | Adventure, automotive history, community development, ghost town, Hollywood history, Kingman Arizona, Lifestyle, Miscellaneous, ROUTE 66, Route 66 authors, Travel, Travel Tips, Uncategorized | 2 Comments

On May 2, 1915, 26-year-old Effie Hotchkiss set off from her home in Brooklyn, New York, for the Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, with her, quote, "rotund" 52-year-old mother, Avis, in the side car. For two women to drive a car on such an adventure would...

Bathtubs, Birdcages & Chevrolet

by jimhinckleysamerica | Feb 24

A key to success is an awareness of shortcomings. We all have an Achilles heel. For me there is a daily struggle with distractions. As an example, this afternoon while preparing for the next episode of Coffee With Jim, the live stream program on the Jim Hinckley’s America Facebook page, I was thumbing through a 1929 Rand McNally atlas. As this weeks program with be a virtual tour along U.S. 6, I was looking for information about the highways course in Pennsylvania.

Well, That Didn’t Work

by jimhinckleysamerica | Feb 15

I had prepared the script with rich detail about Ludlow, Daggett, Newberry Springs and other outposts of civilization along the Route 66 corridor in the Mojave Desert. For illustrations I had combed my archives and created a well designed presentation. There was a...

Dusty Trails And Lost Highways

by jimhinckleysamerica | Feb 8

Beale Springs in the foothills of the Cerbat Mountains in western Arizona is more than a desert oasis. It is at the crossroads of the past, present and even future. And it illustrates the fact that history is not as dead and boring as a four day insurance seminar,...

Edsel’s Grand Adventure

by jimhinckleysamerica | Dec 18

Kingman, Arizona, Friday July 16, 1915 - Stayed around town all day until 4:30 on account of heat. Met party in Stutz from St. Louis - Mr. and Mrs. Scott and 3 children, also Mr. Hillerby. Arrived at Needles 8:30 P.M. after being informed that highwaymen were along...

Changing Times

by jimhinckleysamerica | Dec 9

In a mere twenty years, two short decades, the world had been transformed. In 1909 manufacturers in the United States had produced 828,000 horse drawn vehicles, and about 125,000 automobiles. In 1929 automobile production had soared to more than one million vehicles,...

Lost Highways, Old Friends & And A Hearty Breakfast

by jimhinckleysamerica | Sep 23

What do you call a day that includes a Route 66 road trip, an awesome possum breakfast at a classic Route 66 restaurant, exploring not one but three historic highways and seeking out Arizona railroad history, and a shared adventure with an old friend? Well, in normal...

Houston, We Have A Problem

by jimhinckleysamerica | May 20

There is little doubt that some communities, some sections of the highway corridor will survive and even thrive during the crisis as well as into the centennial and beyond. However, without the unified sense of purpose and of community made manifest in the U.S. Highway 66 Association, Route 66 itself can not survive. Simply put, we can no longer afford the luxury of myopia or a self serving focus.