A 35-foot fried apple pie at a McDonald’s on Route 66 – CBS News Watch CBS News Noel Brennan takes a look at some of the history of fast food in the United States and visits a 35-foot fried apple pie at a McDonald’s on Route 66. Source link
Retracing and remembering the Underground Railroad route – CBS News Watch CBS News As the U.S. prepares to mark 250 years since its start, one man is making sure Americans remember and preserve the history of the Underground Railroad. Jericka Duncan has the story. Source link
A trickle of marine traffic was passing through the Strait of Hormuz on Friday despite an attack on a ship in the vital waterway a day earlier, as Iran reiterated its warnings for ships to follow a Tehran-approved route. Limited time: Save 25% on NBC News subscription Get exclusive reporting, live Q&As and ad-free reading. … Read more
Christine Peoples feels the weight of an ancient task. She is, in many ways, a community storyteller, a bearer of memory and meaning. Today, one of the stories she tells begins inside her workplace: Timmons Hall, a former Black church lifted from its foundations and preserved in Silver Springs Park – once the only public … Read more
A pilot and co-pilot from the United States have died in a fiery plane crash as they attempted an emergency landing in the Dominican Republic, authorities said. The incident occurred Sunday near the southern coastal town of La Romana, according to a statement by the Dominican Institute of Civil Aviation, which identified the pilot and … Read more
An executive jet headed to Texas to pick up a former MLB star burst into flames Sunday during a rough landing, killing both pilots on board. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. The plane had just taken off from La Romana International Airport in the Dominican … Read more
Berlin — One of Poland’s strangest tourist attractions is back: The 666 bus to Hel is doomed no more, and rolling again. In Christian tradition, 666 is known as the number of the beast, but the bus doesn’t go to the underworld – it goes to Hel, a small resort town on Poland’s Baltic coast. For … Read more
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — You’re standing in the middle of an empty highway, staring off into the fading, golden light of Arizona’s high desert. The soundtrack playing in your mind? Depeche Mode. Industrial-leaning synth-pop strains might seem incongruous with such a vista, but it was the alternative rock band’s homage to Route 66 that seduced David … Read more
Editor’s note: This story is part of the Monitor’s summerlong series following old U.S. Route 66 from Chicago to Santa Monica, California. Just a few blocks from the Old Joliet Prison, Johnny Williams is standing outside a tire shop, waiting for a repair. He’s a lifelong resident of the Joliet area, a father of six … Read more
After 100 years, U.S. Route 66 is still one of the most famous roads on the planet. Which is in some ways peculiar. Among the first of America’s cross-country highways, it was officially decommissioned on June 27, 1985. Bureaucratically, U.S. Route 66 no longer exists. Yet millions of people are still drawn to what remains … Read more