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American Road Trip Talk (Podcast)- Dr. Steve Cumbaa: Extinction Theatre

American Road Trip Talk (podcast)- Dr. Steve Cumbaa: Extinction Theatre Click here to listen... Click here to download...   Our spring 2011 edition of the American Road Magazine is centered around dinosaurs and their many manifestations along the highways of North America. One of our articles presented The Extinction Theatre, part of the Talisman Energy Fossil Exhibition, housed in the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa, Canada.   Our guest for this American Road TripTalk is
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American Road Trip Talk (Podcast)- Donelle Dadigan: Hollywood Museum

American Road Trip Talk (Podcast)- Donelle Dadigan: Hollywood Museum Click here to listen.. Clickhere to download   All that glittered soon became gold when it came from Los Angeles, California for most of the last century. Hollywood was the hub of America's movie, radio and TV industry turning Midwest girls, like Jean Harlow (pictured above) into The Blond Bombshell, with the help of famed make up artist Max Factor, in the early twenties. Today we are going to visit with Donelle Dadig
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American Road Trip Talk (Podcast)- Dee Helming: Fallen Shoe Tree

American Road Trip Talk (podcast)- Dee Helming: Fallen Shoe Tree Click here to listen... Click here to download...   The stretch of desert highway between Austin and Fallon, Nevada was home to one of the rarest trees in Americana: the "shoe tree." Actually there are a number of these huge trees draped with Doc Martins, tennies, work boots and all manner of used shoes all across the country. Rather than being treated as smelly, eyesores, they have become beloved roadside shoe shrines. T
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American Road Trip Talk (Podcast) Sue Hronik: Amazing Maze

Click here to listen… Click here to download…   The Lincoln Highway celebrates it's 100th birthday in 2013. Around Labor Day the small farm community of Malta, Illinois celebrated the centennial with the opening of an amazing corn maze. Malta was the site of the first test mile of concrete that would become part of the Lincoln Hwy and eventually reach the Pacific Ocean. Our guest Sue Hronik , is the program director for the Illinois Lincoln Highway Coalition and she will explain all about t
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American Road Trip Talk (Podcast) Stacy Rushton: Blast From The Past

Click here to listen... Click here to download …   In Tacoma, WA, summer 2013 ended with a Blast From The Past at the LeMay Family Collection. What began, as a personal collection of vintage cars more than 40 years ago is now the largest private collection in the world with 2,200 vehicles according to the Guiness Book of World Records. The Blast from the Past annually raises funds to help local charities and serves as a showcase for the highlight of the upcoming Annual LeMay Car Show, Auc
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American Road Trip Talk (Podcast) Sarah Focke: Lincoln Highway Centennial Part 2

http://www.audioacrobat.com/play/W7ZcNNQx] Click here to listen... [/url] http://americanroad.audioacrobat.com/download/e0b62854-539f-40ec-d5df-ebd6514eadd0.mp3] Click here to download …[/url]   The last weekend of June 2013 in Kearney, NE marks the 100th Birthday Party for the Lincoln Highway, one of the first transcontinental highways for automobiles across the United States of America. In Part 2 of our Centennial Celebration for the Lincoln Highway, Sarah Focke, of the Kearney Convention
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American Road Trip Talk (Podcast) Sarah Focke: Lincoln Highway Centennial Part 1

http://www.audioacrobat.com/play/WlXjSSzx] Click here to listen... [/url] http://americanroad.audioacrobat.com/download/6db33191-f238-8f52-c68d-5223d61a0259.mp3] Click here to download …[/url]   The last weekend of June 2013 in Kearney, NE marks the 100th Birthday Party for the Lincoln Highway, one of the first transcontinental highways for automobiles across the United States of America. In Part 1 of our Centennial Celebration for the Lincoln Highway, Sarah Focke, of the Kearney Convention
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American Road Trip Talk (Podcast) Mike Wendland: Roadtreking

Click here to listen... Click here to download   Frequent listener to this podcast know Foster Braun as the host of American Road Trip Talk but most of the time I wear an entirely different hat. For 40 years I have been a radio broadcaster in Metropolitan Detroit and for the last 16 of those years, I have co-hosted a weekly program called the Internet Advisor. We help people with their computer problems and introduce them to experts in the field.   On the first show of 2014, I interviewe
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American Road Trip Talk (Podcast) Karen Raymore: Comfort Food Cruise 2014

Click here to listen... Click here to download…   For many of us this has been a hard winter that has kept us cooped up. Good news, there is an event taking place during the first two weeks of February that is guaranteed to get you out of the house if you live anywhere near Ohio. The scenic Hocking Hills area of Ohio just 40 Miles southeast of Columbus is hosting a Comfort Food Cruise Feb. 1-2 and 8-9, 2014. Karen Raymore, the Executive Director of the Hocking Hills Tourism Association ha
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American Road Trip Talk (Podcast) Jim Thole: Neon Heritage Preservation Part 3: The Dream Team

Click here to listen... Click here to download …   The summer 2013 issue of our magazine features the theme: Neon Sights that Keep the Night Bright. In the Motoring the Mother Road column, I wrote about an ambitious Neon Heritage Preservation program led by Jim Thole, a member of the board of the Missouri Route 66 Association. Be sure to check out the magazine issue for great photos and more details.   In 2008, a terrible windstorm blew through St. Louis, MO and nearly tore down a neon
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American Road Trip Talk (Podcast) Jim Thole: Neon Heritage Preservation Part 2: Relighting Route 66

Click here to listen... Click here to download…   The summer 2013 issue of our magazine features the theme: Neon Sights that Keep the Night Bright. In the Motoring the Mother Road column, I wrote an article about an ambitious Neon Heritage Preservation program led by Jim Thole, a member of the board of the Missouri Route 66 Association. Be sure to check out the magazine issue for great photos and more details.   In 2008, a terrible windstorm in St. Louis, MO nearly tore down a neon sign
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American Road Trip Talk (Podcast) Jim Thole: Neon Heritage Part 1

http://www.audioacrobat.com/play/WhsnYZQx] Click here to listen... [/url] http://americanroad.audioacrobat.com/download/df3a35a3-1cd0-e7fd-f069-87b7011cf299.mp3] Click here to download … [/url]   The summer 2013 issue of our magazine features the theme: Neon Sights that Keep the Night Bright. In the Motoring the Mother Road column, I wrote an article about an ambitious Neon Heritage Preservation program led by Jim Thole, a member of the board of the Missouri Route 66 Association. Be sure to
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American Road Trip Talk (Podcast) Erika Nelson: America's Favorite Roadside Attractions

Click here to listen... Click here to download …   For many years now Erika Nelson has been a big game hunter stalking her elusive prey all over the continental United States. The major difference is not the size of her quarry but that they stand still so patiently waiting to be captured. I am referring, of course, to the World’s Largest Collection of the World’s Smallest Copies of the World Largest Things. Erika is a peripatetic artist who has scoured the American Road for the Largest
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American Road Trip Talk (Podcast) Emmett Brown:freshwater Fishing Hall Museum Part 1

Click here to listen... Click here to download…   Like any good fish story, the tale of the National Freshwater Fishing Museum located in the wooded Lakeland of northwest Wisconsin is about a big one…that didn't get away. Emmett Brown, the current director of the Museum, takes us on a two part tour of this remarkable and growing collection of freshwater fishing memorabilia, hall of fame for the greatest fishermen and women and even home to over 100,000 lures, rods and reels. For a full artic
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American Road Trip Talk (Podcast) Dave Silva: Road Warriors Favorite Beast

Click here to listen… Click here to download…   We all have a trusted steed that carries across the American Road whether it’s a vintage VW Campervan or the latest Hybrid. But there is group of travelers with a peculiarly deep passion for an historic American Road vehicle: The GMC Motorhome. From 1974-1978 GMC made the only RV produced by a major automaker. Of the 12,000 made, 8000 are believed to still be on the road.   The GMC motorhome was not a home stuck on top of a truck frame; it was
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American Road Trip Talk (Podcast) Dave Hutson: Neon Resurrection Part 2

http://www.audioacrobat.com/play/W2CWbGxx] Click here to listen…[/url] http://americanroad.audioacrobat.com/download/21e37ada-19b8-4fe7-9956-c8816b23a0f1.mp3] Click here to download … [/url]   The summer 2013 issue of American Road Magazine focused on: "Neon Sights that Keep the Night Bright". Dave Hutson, our guest in this podcast, is the man who brings the warmth of yesterday back to those glowing gas sentinels. He is the owner of Neon Time, a company in suburban St. Louis, MO that special
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American Road Trip Talk (Podcast) Dave Hutson: Neon Resurrection Part 1

http://www.audioacrobat.com/play/WHhxRq4x] Click here to listen…[/url] http://americanroad.audioacrobat.com/download/b1e47a9d-1432-3de0-d733-c47e2e919e99.mp3] Click here to download ...[/url]   Our summer 2013 issue of American Road Magazine is focused around: Neon Sights that Keep the Night Bright. In this podcast we meet Dave Hutson, the man who brings the warmth of yesterday back to those glowing gas sentinels that once beckoned us to spent the night or to enjoy some homemade comfort food
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American Road Trip Talk (Podcast) - John & Ann Ridge: Yellowstone Trail

American Road Trip Talk (podcast) - John & Ann Ridge: Yellowstone Click here to download   During the last 5 years we have interviewed dozens of people behind the articles in our American Road Magazine but this time the subject has to do with one of our regular columns: On the Yellowstone Trail. John and Ann Ridge are a Wisconsin couple who have spent their retirement years uncovering and publicizing the history of the Yellowstone Trail.   In this interview John and Ann take us through
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