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Post by peecekeeper on Feb 8, 2010 19:28:28 GMT -8
He brought his first band to Spokane Washington in 1935 and it wasn't long before he started tinkering with hotrods. He was building hot rods and writing songs in the 1930's and 40's. In the early 1950's. He had been driving his 1941 Lincoln between his home in Spokane and the Paradise Club in Lewiston Idaho where his band played nightly engagements. One night his Lincoln chased a friend's Cadillac over the Clearwater river bridge and up the Lewiston grade. The telephone poles were whizzing by so fast they looked like picket fences as he later referred to in his hit song, "Hot Rod Lincoln”. He wrote the song "Hot Rod Lincoln" in 1950, recorded it first in 1955 and the song was released in 1957. The song hit the Billboard top 100 charts in 1960 and stayed there for six months. While the song tells of a race between a Lincoln and a Cadillac on the Grapevine grade in California, the actual location was on the Lewiston grade in Idaho. He was a member of the Country Music Association, Dukes Auto Club, Lincoln Continental Owners Club, VFW #1435, DAV #51, and Local #98 Carpenter's Union. He was a member of the Music Hall of Fame in Arizona and Minnesota. He performed at the Hillyard Festival in 1990.
Do you know who this is?
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Post by peecekeeper on Feb 8, 2010 19:31:52 GMT -8
His name is James J. Hill who brought the railroad to what was once called Hill’s Yards located at Hillyard, Washington. To learn more more about James J. Hill go the following website: www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&File_Id=7294Compliments of Hillyard's Hobo Bulletin. Bulletins will be available at 5022 N Market. Placing of Coupons/Ads are free of charge for Hillyard Businesses. Email me at pfarnsworth@juno.com
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Post by Moraff on Feb 9, 2010 10:07:41 GMT -8
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