Route 66 Podcast - 27. A talk with former Harvey Girls

27. A talk with former Harvey Girls

01/01/20 • 46 min

The final in a three part series featuring The Fred Harvey Company. This episode features a talk with three women who worked for The Fred Harvey Company during the final days of the company, 1958. In addition, episode features a talk with Katy Miller, great, great, great granddaughter of Fred Harvey.

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26. Allan Affeldt - La Posada & La Castaneda Historic Fred Harvey Route 66 Hotels

Arizona based entrepreneur Allan Affeldt has successfully proven more than once that he can purchase old, abandoned railroad buildings along Route 66 that has had the Fred Harvey footprint and converted them into historically beautiful hotels in the southwest.

Join Route 66 host Anthony Arno, as he talks with Allan Affeldt, who has dedicated his life to restoring Route 66 buildings successfully proven to grow the local economy beyond what anyone had ever imagined. Allan begins talking about various social causes he promoted as a college student that gained international attention to stumbling upon a dilapidated 1929 hotel in Arizona that was once a Fred Harvey station.

In addition, Allan also talks about his restoration of historic hotels in Las Vegas, NM, including his latest project restoring the 1898 Fred Harvey hotel, La Castanada.

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28. The Trucking Industry along Route 66

Tom Peters is the Dean of Library Services at Missouri State University, and an oral historian. Join Route 66 host Anthony Arno as he talks with Tom about his series of interview with twenty two individuals directly associated with the trucking industry along Route 66.

Tom talks about the the importance of trucking