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Coffee With JimCoffee With Jim, July 27, 2025Jenn Tramaglino has come full circle. And she has had her share of adventures from Amsterdam to Las Vegas and Burning Man. Now she has returned to her roots in Kingman, Arizona. And with Kingman Rental Bikes she is adding her infectious enthusiasm to the renaissance that is transforming the historic heart of this desert crossroads on Route 66.
In our wide ranging conversation we talked about the long and winding road that led Jenn to open a gift shop, rental bike store, and bicycle museum on Route 66 in a renovated 1930s service station. And we talked about...2025-07-2759 minCoffee With JimCoffee With Jim, July 20, 2025Cafes new and old (Lewis Cafe 1938 and Sweeetie Pies Amish Bakery & Cafe 2025), the Route 66 centennial (and bicentennial), vagabond life, fund raising challenges faced by non profits, social media pros and cons, the appeal of roadside kitsch, historic preservation challenges, inspiring a new generation to discover the magic of the great American road trip, the charm of Cuba (Missouri), and the appeal of Albuquerque. On today's episode our visit with Elizabeth Olwig of the Route 66 Association of Missouri, with encouragement from the audience, was a wide ranging conversation that was road trip inspiring and thought provoking.
So, what a...2025-07-201h 06Coffee With JimCoffee With Jim, July 13, 2025Viva Las Vegas! You won't find Elvis impersonators, white tigers, and glittering casinos in the original Las Vegas. But you will find a very special version of small town America peppered with one of a kind diners and cafes, and nearly 1,000 buildings on the National Register of Historic Places.
You will also find the last drive in theater in New Mexico. Hot springs. A tale of political eccentricity. A connection to Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, Edsel Ford, Emily Post, and Doc Holiday. There is even a renovated Harvey House hotel and an 1882 hotel on the historic...2025-07-131h 01Coffee With JimCoffee With Jim July 6, 2025If you are a fan of classic and vintage cars, automobile restoration, and love to hear about their history, this program is for you! Our guest today is Richard Lentinello, the former editor-in-chief of nine car magazines, including Hemmings Motor News, that recently launched Crankshaft, a quarterly publication, in August 2020. And in February 2023, he was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Antique Automobile Club of America. When not writing about or photoraphing cars, he restores tham and serves as a judge at prestigious events such as Amelia Island.
Starting with Issue #9, Crankshaft has been transformed...2025-07-061h 03Coffee With JimCoffee With Jim, June 29 2025Love them or hate them the electric vehicle is here to stay. And they have a history that is rather surprising. Did you know that the first pedestrian killed by an automobile in the US was struck by an electric taxi cab - in 1899? Did you know that the first car built by Ferdinand Porsche was electric? And that was in 1898! Did you know that in 1916 a company manufactured a gasoline/electric hybrid?
But today's program is not just about the past. It's about the future of the EV and related infrastructure, and everything in between. Our g...2025-06-291h 06Coffee With JimCoffee With Jim, June 22, 2025As I am attending the AAA Route 66 Road Fest in Tulsa, Oklahoma our virtual cohosts are filling in with a very special program about the prehistory of Route 66, and an exciting new Route 66 anthology. As a bonus we have some fascinating EV trivia, and a sneak peek at next weeks episode of Coffee With Jim.
2025-06-2226 minCoffee With JimCoffee With Jim, June 15, 2025It made quite a stir when introduced in October 2014. Soon the musical road near Tijeras, New Mexico, a Route 66 community, that played a portion of "America The Beautiful" when driven over at a certain speed became quite an attraction.
But did you know that the idea of creating a musical highway is linked to the creative genius of Walt Disney? Surprisingly the concept is even older as the polyphon, a popular type of 19th-century disc-playing music box, used the same concept.
On today's episode we visit with Chris Hill and Pete Thompson, the visionaries behind t...2025-06-1559 minCoffee With JimCoffee With Jim, June 8, 2025If you are old enough to remember Route 66 before the interstate highway you probably have fond memories of S & H Green Stamps. And if you use an app or Google instead of paper maps, chances are that you will soon be making your own memories with this American classic that was launched in 1896. Did you know that S & H Green Stamps is making a comeback, but with a modern twist?
On today’s program we talked with Carl Norloff who is on a quest to make this community building, memory making classic relevant for a new generation. Ca...2025-06-081h 02Coffee With JimCoffee With Jim, June 1, 2025WOW! Thank you, Bianca Encinas of South Valley Main Street for a delightful, fascinating, road trip insiring, smile inducing, and thought provoking conversation.
On this mornings episode of Coffee With Jim the spotlight is on Albuquerque and the south valley, an area rich with centuries of history, vibrant cultural heritage, and one of a kind restaurants. As a bonus this area is bisected by an early, and often overlooked, alignment of Route 66. In this wide ranging conversation with Bianca we talked about the 2025 La Familia Farmers Market, a free outdoor concert series, the Chile Ristra Harvest Festival, b...2025-06-011h 06Coffee With JimCoffee With Jim, May 25, 2025The AAA Route 66 Road Fest in Tulsa, Oklahoma is more than just another Route 66 themed event. It is a fun filled, interactive, multifaceted, smile inducing, adventure inspiring, immersive celebration of the great American road trip, its past, its present, and its future. On today's episode we visit with Wade Bray, event organizer, and discuss Road Fest development, plans for the Route 66 centennial and why this is an event that shouldn't be missed.
We have two questions for you. One, after listening to today's program were you inspired to plan a road trip adventure? Two, will we see y...2025-05-251h 02Coffee With JimCoffee With Jim, May 18, 2025On today’s program we take a detour from road trip inspiration to talk about internet and cybersecurity for small businesses, the threats that they face today, and protective options with security experts Jim Featherstone and Olivia Golaszewski of Internet Transformed - www.facebook.com/groups/internettransformed. If you use email, have a small business, order online or make use of on online banking this a program that shouldn’t be missed.
Today's program is sponsored in part by Patreon. It is also sponsored by Roadrunner Lodge, RouteTrip USA, Wagon Wheel Motel in Cuba, Missouri, Two Lane Amer...2025-05-181h 06Coffee With JimCoffee With Jim, May 11, 2025Dream big. Then dream bigger. Add a healthy dose of passion, vision, tenacity, infectious enthusiasm, and ambition. That is the recipe used by Lenore Knudtson and Tim Webb. The result is the transformation of an entire block along Route 66 in Kingman, Arizona, and a major contribution to the renaissance of that community's historic business district.
On today's program we talk with this dynamic duo about Tin Can Alley, Mudd on 66, Scoops on 66 and a bicycle rental company housed in a refurbished 1940s gas station. Weed and trash strewn vacant lots, a long shuttered 1930s cafe and 1950s...2025-05-1158 minCoffee With JimCoffee With Jim, May 4, 2025If today's visit with photographer David Schwartz of Pics on 66 had a common theme it would be inspiration. Inspiration to chase the dream. Inspiration for epic road trips. Inspiration for living life.
For legions of Route 66 enthusiasts David Schwartz is known for his visual storytelling in Route magazine that captures the infectious magic that is the Route 66 experience. That, however, is only one facet of David's artistry.
On today's program author, humorist, and historian Jim Hinckley and David Schwartz talk road trips, the difference between photography and taking pictures, evolving technology, the power of the Ro...2025-05-051h 00Coffee With JimCoffee With Jim, April 27, 2025The Route 66 centennial, the Native American role in Route 66 history, the trials and tribulations of being a writer, the international nature of Route 66 and the future of that storied highway, and tales of preservation battles lost and won, are just a few of the subjects discussed in today's conversation with Jim Ross and Shellee Graham. Pioneers in the Route 66 renaissance movement, Ross and Graham are accomplished authors and historians that have a new book, Route 66: The First 100 Hundred Years due for release in June 2025.
Next week on Coffee With Jim, the weekly podcast from Jim HInckley's America, we...2025-04-271h 09Coffee With JimCoffee With Jim, April 20, 2025Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could share the magic of a Route 66 odyssey with friends? Well, that is exactly what Linda Ly makes possible with The Route 66 Cookbook, a delightful blending of history, trivia, and the special recipes that have transformed some Route 66 gems into must stop destinations for the Route 66 traveler. This is no mere cook book. It is the ultimate souvenir for the enthusiast that wants to bring a bit of the Route 66 magic into their kitchen.
On this episode of Coffee With Jim from Jim Hinckley's America it's a fast paced, road tr...2025-04-211h 03Coffee With JimCoffee With JIm, April 13, 2025For centuries the raw beauty, the silence, and the vast landscapes of the desert have provided inspiration to philosophers and dreamers. What happens when you add the allure and magic of Route 66 to the mix? On this epsiode of Coffee With Jim we visit with Professor Nolan Stolz to talk about his moving Route 66 Suite compostion, and the inspiration that came from traveling this storied highway across Arizona.
Next week (April 20, 2025) on Coffee With Jim - Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could share the magic of a Route 66 odyssey with friends? Well, that is exactly wh...2025-04-1359 minCoffee With JimCoffee With Jim, April 6, 2025What is the connection between Route 66 and mead, an ancient drink of the Vikings that filled poets and scholars with inspiration and was the drink of the gods? On this episode of Coffee With Jim, the weekly podcast from Jim Hinckley's America, we talk with Matt Young who has found a unique use for a 1940s service station and garage - a meadery!
Matt Young and his wife Shawndy of Hive Five Meadery, also owners of Laughlin Tours, represent a new generation of ambitious young entrepreneurs with vision that are transforming Route 66. They are also writing a...2025-04-061h 01Coffee With JimCoffee With Jim, March 30, 2025On today's program it's a wide ranging conversation with Austin Coop of Two Lane America about Fred Harvey, automotive museums and unique museums, Route 66 and the Route 66 centennial, the stories of fascinating people, and the allure of the great American road trip. It's another shared adventure from Jim Hinckley's America and a road trip inspiring episode of Coffee With Jim.
The only thing better than setting out on a great American road trip is taking to the road with a knowledgeable and passionate guide. Whether you want to cruise Route 66 or the shade dappled roads of the...2025-03-301h 03Coffee With JimCoffee With Jim, March 23, 2025What do the London Bridge, Route 66 (the highway and the classic television program), casinos, an historic Harvey House and railroad depot, lively Mojave Desert ghost towns, kayaking the Topock Gorge on the Colorado River, and a town where the mayor is a burro have in common? They are all the focus of the exciting new Tri State Podcast and today's conversation with podcaster Chris Tuttle.
It's another smile inducing, road trip inspiring shared adventure from Jim Hinckley's America. Pull up a chair, grab a cup of coffee and let Jim Hinckley, and today's guest Chris Tuttle, tell y...2025-03-231h 06Coffee With JimCoffee With Jim, March 16, 2025A Texas Panhandle ghost town with a Route 66 connection. A murder mystery. Passionate people with an eye on building a sense of community. Writing a new chapter in Route 66 history. That is just a hint of what to expect from today's inspirational and fascinating conversation with Blair and Blanca Schaffer on Coffee With Jim, the weekly podcast from Jim Hinckley's America.
Jericho is more than just an old ghost town. It is a tangible link to Texas and Route 66 history. It is a high plains time capsule with a storied history that is being uncovered, and shared...2025-03-171h 06Coffee With JimCoffee With Jim, March 9, 2025I have looked forward to this conversation with Ryan Thibeault, the owner of Tebo Barn LLC in Milton, New Hampshire, for a long time and wasn't disappointed. Inspiration to live the dream, inspiration to embrace the adventure that is the great American road trip and inspiration to life life to the fullest.
Ryan took his driving test in his grandfather’s 1929 Ford Model A Phaeton. In high school and college he repaired and restored antique cars, and his daily driver was often a 1930 Ford Model A Town Sedan. In 2022 Ryan, decided to chase the dream, walked away fro...2025-03-091h 03Coffee With JimCoffee With Jim, March 2, 2025Today's program kicks off with tales of Buster Keaton, Charles Lindbergh, Will Rogers, Clark Gable, Edsel Ford and their surprising connection to landmarks in Kingman, Arizona. And in the second half of the program we visit with Sarah Elizabeth of Kingman Main Street to discuss the exciting Hotel Beale facade renovation project, the city's historic district renaissance, and community building initiatives such as Kingman Tours.
Join us for a thought provoking, inspirational, road trip enticing conversation. And next week, March 9, it's a bit of time travel.
Our guest will be Ryan Thibeault, the owner of Te...2025-03-021h 08Coffee With JimCoffee With JIm, February 23, 2025It's a smile inducing episode of epic proportions! What happens when you get two natural born storytellers with an off center sense of humor and an insatiable curiosity about everything on one program?
Today’s guest on Coffee With Jim is Marlo Anderson, a futurist and serial entrepreneur that is dedicated to turning bright ideas into transformative ventures and to bringing people together with banana bread, margaritas and road trips. Anderson is co-host of The Absurdists podcast, produces a daily one-minute tech-and-lifestyle segment for national morning shows and with the official National Day Calendar encourages people to “Celeb...2025-02-231h 11Coffee With JimCoffee With Jim, February 16, 2025On today’s program we visit the land of the giants. Our special guest is Joel Baker of the American Giants Museum in Atlanta, Illinois. He is also the host of the fascinating American Giants YouTube channel where he documents fascinating giant stories, his search for giants, and their resotration.
These larger than life spacemen, cowboys, lumberjacks, and gas station attendants were once found all along the American roadside. They cast long shadows at gas stations, restaurants, tire stores and trading posts. Generically known as Muffler Men they are icons with a fascinating story. And now they ar...2025-02-161h 00Coffee With JimCoffee With Jim, February 9, 2025We have something very special (and inspiring) for you with this program. Our special guest is Liz Vincent, Director of Community Enrichment, City of Pontiac in Illinois. Often referred to as the quintessential Route 66 community Pontiac is a vibrant destination for visitors, the land of opportunity for entrepreneurs, and a well spring of inspiration for community organizers.
This is more than another smile inducing, road trip inspiring shared adventure from Jim Hinckley’s America! This is opportunity knocking, and a community changing conversation.
2025-02-091h 00Coffee With JimCoffee With Jim, February 2, 2025On this thought provoking and road trip inspiring episode, with Gary Sosniecki of the Lebanon-Laclede County Route 66 Society as our guide, we journey to Lebanon, Missouri and discover where to find great pie, catfish, and barbecue. And we learn a bit about how a community can be transformed with vision, passionate people, and leadership that can inspire a community, build a network of cooperative partnerships, and embrace new ideas.
As a bonus Gary shared some fascinating Route 66 history, provided an update about the future of a Route 66 icon, and invited the world to a delightful Route 66 festival. W...2025-02-021h 02Coffee With JimCoffee With Jim, January 26, 2025In the Lonestar State legendary Route 66 comes up a bit short on miles. But there is no shortage of opportunities for smile inducing, memory making adventures, for enjoying a neon lit night, for savoring some great pie, for enjoying a delicious dinner in an authentic Texas steakhouse, or for a restful nights sleep in a magical place that blurs the line between past and present.
On this episode of Coffee With Jim, author and host Jim Hinckley visits with Gary Williams of the Old Route 66 Association of Texas. Chock full of travel tips, event information, exciting Route 66 c...2025-01-261h 06Coffee With JimCoffee With Jim, January 19, 2025How do you transform a derelict block on Route 66 into a tax revenue generating destination? How do you repurpose long shuttered buildings, fuel development of a sense of community, and contribute to an exciting historic district renaissance? Vision. Hard work. Tenacity. Perseverance. An infectious enthusiasm. An ability to build a network of cooperative partnerships.
On this episode of Coffee With Jim, the weekly podcast from Jim Hinckley's America, host and author Jim Hinckley visits with Tim Webb and Lenore Knudtson, the visionary entrepreneurs in Kingman, Arizona behind Scoops on 66, Mudd on 66, and soon, Tin Can Alley. It's a...2025-01-1959 minCoffee With JimCoffee With Jim, January 12, 2025Evan Stern, creator of the acclaimed Vanishing Postcards podcast, is a born storyteller. And he is an adventuresome traveler with an inquisitive nature.
On today's free range conversation Stern, and author Jim Hinckley, host of Coffee With Jim, talk about Texas, colorful characters, Route 66, podcasting, road trips, and what makes New York City unique. Sharing America's story. Inspiring road trips by telling people where to go. It's what we do with a little from fascinating guests such as Evan Stern, and our AI generated cohosts.
As the song says, come along for the ride.
2025-01-121h 05Coffee With JimCoffee With Jim, January 5, 2025A special thanks to Elizabeth Olwig of the Route 66 Association of Missouri for joining us this morning, our first program of the new year! Olwig's infectious enthusiasm and boundless curiosity were a great way to start the day. If you would like more information about Route 66 in Missouri, start with a visit to the Route 66 Association of Missouri website - www.missouri66.org May I suggest lending these fine folks a hand by becoming a supporter?
I hope that you enjoyed the conversation between Jim Hinckley and Elizabeth Olwig. Join us next Sunday morning for another shared...2025-01-051h 07Coffee With JimCoffee With Jim, December 29, 2024If you need inspiration to live life to its fullest, to step out of your comfort zone, and to embrace adventure, this program is for you! Our conversation with Whitney Ortiz will quicken the spirit, leave you looking for the passport, and checking the cost of airfare.
Lithuanian Christmas markets. An archeological dig in Israel. The Peace Corps. Route 66. Teaching English in Poland. This is the most far ranging discussion in the history of Coffee With Jim!
2024-12-301h 00Coffee With JimCoffee With Jim, December 22, 2024On this mornings program we had a delighful road trip inspiring visit with Gloria Nash, author of Looking Back at the Future: Photographing Vintage Leftovers of New York's World’s Fairs. She shared childhood memories of the 1964 World's Fair, and sparked interest in some urban exploration in New York City as well as San Diego, Dallas, Seattle and St. Louis, the site of other World's Fairs.
We even discovered some interesting Route 66 connections. Did you know that the 1962 World's Fair in Seattle inspired the signature root beer at Mr. D'z Route 66 Diner in Kingman, Arizona?
Shar...2024-12-2256 minCoffee With JimCoffee With Jim, December 15, 2024In this wide ranging conversation with Cengiz Arik of Import Corner in Kingman, Arizona we discuss the changing face of tourism, tourism as a component of economic development, Kingman as a destination, how to foster development of a sense of community and community purppose, the challenges and opportunities associated with an aging population, and, of course, Route 66. Sharing America's story and adventures. Inspiring road trips by telling people where to go. It's what we do at Jim Hinckley's America.
2024-12-151h 06Coffee With JimCoffee With Jim, December 8, 2024On today's episode we share America's story and inspire road trips in a conversation about books recommended for the winter reading list. And we share some exciting news about the upcoming Route 66 centennial, Jim Hinckley's America developments, and upcoming episodes of Coffee With Jim.
Books discussed include James Dean Died Here by Chris Eptig, God's Country: America in the Fifties, Ronald Oakley, A Guide Book To Highway 66, Jack Rittenhouse, Arizona National Parks and Monuments, Roger Naylor, and Oklahoma Route 66, Jim Ross.
2024-12-0952 minCoffee With JimCoffee With Jim, December 1, 2024Today we travel to Springfield, Illinois on an exciting, road trip inspiring, smile inducing adventure with Scoff Dahl, CVB director, as our guide. Submerged ghost towns, Route 66 and plans for celebrating the highways centennial, a restaurant that opened in the 1880s, a restaurant with a direct link to acclaimed folk artist Bob Waldmire, Abraham Lincoln's home, Route 66 landmarks and a neon sign park are just a few of the stops made during the tour of Springfield.
It's another shared adventure from Jim Hinckley's America. Come along for the ride!
And after a brief intermission and a...2024-12-011h 00Coffee With JimCoffee With Jim, November 24, 2024
If you think of neon and tail fins when the conversation turns to Route 66, today's program will be a surpise. Today we visit with Geoff Ladd, Assistant Director, Illinois Route 66 Scenic Byway and discuss the innovative Route 66 Monarch Flyway project that links conservation and building a sense of community with the most famous highway in the world.
The Illinois Monarch Project that debuted on November 18th, 2020, is a Route 66 centered 66-mile-wide corridor that stretches from Chicago to St. Louis across the state of Illinois. By planting native wildflowers and restoring monarch butterfly habitat a bit of color is added to...2024-11-2552 minCoffee With JimCoffee With Jim, November 17, 2024Jim Hinckley's America is all about road trips and adventures on the road less traveled. On today's program our virtual guest hosts introduce listeners to an incredible urban trail system in Kingman, Arizona, a town best known for its Route 66 connection.
This trail system blends scenic wonders with historic treasures. When linked to Kingman Tours, the narrated self guided walking tours in the historic heart of the city, and along the Route 66 corridor, Kingman becomes a destination for the adventuresome traveler.
Join us for this special road trip inspiring program, and set your sights on a...2024-11-1815 minCoffee With JimCoffee With Jim, November 10, 2024On today’s program we visit with Steve LeSueur of Talisman Magic Marketing, developer of the innovative Kingman Tours initiative that is transforming the concept of experiential tourism. This innovative multifaceted project launched by Kingman Main Street has transformed the historic heart of Kingman, Arizona into an attraction. We will also be talking about the changing face of marketing, the building of a modern news media outlet, website development, and how AI is transforming everything.
Today's program is sponsored in part by RouteTrip USA, the bespoke road trip holiday specialists. It is also sponsored by the Roadrunner Lo...2024-11-101h 05Coffee With JimCoffee With Jim, November 3, 2024We are on the road for the annual fall tour. So, we have enlisted the help of a couple guest hosts to share America's story, and to inspire a road trip or two. But their focus seems to be on singing my praises and on telling the story of Jim Hinckley's America.
I appreciate the compliments and am quite humbled. BUt as our guests aren't real, I will have to accept their praise with a grain of salt.
Today's program is a glimpse of the future. Today's program is a deep dive into the exciting an...2024-11-0317 minCoffee With JimCoffee With Jim, October 27, 2024AI and the future of podcasting. New books by Roger Naylor and Denny Gibson. Fall reading recommendations including a haunting book by Filip Muller. Road trips, Route 66 centennial projects, and electric vehicles. Updates from Jim Hinckley's America and the annual fall tour. News about the Kingman Tours project. The Route 66 Miles of Possibility Conference. This could very well be our most diverse episode of Coffee With Jim!
Today's program is sponsored in part by the Roadrunner Lodge Motel in Tucumcari, New Mexico, RouteTrip USA, Cactus Inn Motel in McLean, Texas, the Route 66 Navigation app, and the iconic Wagon Wheel Motel...2024-10-2757 minCoffee With JimCoffee With Jim, October 20, 2024
Touring the country with one night stands as a stand up comic, hosting a Telly Award winning Route 66 program, and work as an Emmy Award winning producer and writer has given Tom Gregory an intimate knowledge of small town America. But that is only part of the story.
On today's program Tom shares a twisted path that includes growing up in Chicago, and launching his career with radio programs in the Cajun country of Louisiana. This conversation with Tom, Executive Producer at New Orleans based tGo Productions, is a road trip inspiring deep dive into the magic of small town A...2024-10-211h 10