Long ago on independence square (Nevada, Macon: stabilization, fit in, houses)

[WCHS'59]

Originally Posted by MRG Dallas

The ID Channel. Mine is on DISH

The series is "A Crime to Remember"

The Greenlease episode is Year 2, No. 8. Entitled "Baby Come Home"

A mix of film clips, stills and re-enactments.



Also saw "In Cold Blood" first in a long time. Early in, the culprits bus into KC there is a shot of McGee, south and I could read the sign painted on a building

"BA High Fidelity" Anyone remember that?

A few years later, Polks shows BA on 55th St in KC and no McGee address. Looks like building is long gone, "put up a parking lot"

I have not watched ID Channel in a few years. Will see if I can find that episode somewhere.

[WCHS'59]

Originally Posted by Mad Anthonie

Most people are aware that President Eisenhower is considered the father of our Interstate Highway system.

What highway related title did Harry S Truman hold for about 20 years? (NO, It wasn't for Jackson County.)

Head of the Old Trails Association from around 1925 to 48 or so.

[MRG Dallas]

Originally Posted by WCHS'59

I do remember that screen shot and BA High Fidelity and I had been in that bus station several times in the 50's.

I was mildly shocked to see a BA store in the Buckingham Square shopping center (now torn down) in Aurora, CO, when I first arrived in the area in 1980. It was gone a short time after I came here.

There was a later scene in the movie where the two culprits were driving west on I-70 across the viaduct and they were talking about the overhead sign saying "Welcome to Kansas."

I believe there was also a shot of Minnesota Ave in KCK, back when it was a bustling commercial area

[MRG Dallas]

Originally Posted by WCHS'59

I have not watched ID Channel in a few years. Will see if I can find that episode somewhere.

The other episode I have taped in the same series is about drifter Richard Speck who killed 8 nursing students in the Summer of 1966.

Almost 50 years to the day. July 13. A real shocker, even more so since mass murders were almost unheard of.

[Mad Anthonie]

Originally Posted by WCHS'59

Head of the Old Trails Association from around 1925 to 48 or so.

How in the wide wide world of trivia did you know that?

[WCHS'59]

Originally Posted by Mad Anthonie

How in the wide wide world of trivia did you know that?

I had a seance with Harry....................

[Mad Anthonie]

In 1945 President Truman took an automobile ride in Germany, en-route to a meeting with Churchill and Stalin. Who else of importance was in the car with him, and what topic did they discuss that would impact everyday Americans, and still does today?

[WCHS'59]

Originally Posted by Mad Anthonie

In 1945 President Truman took an automobile ride in Germany, en-route to a meeting with Churchill and Stalin. Who else of importance was in the car with him, and what topic did they discuss that would impact everyday Americans, and still does today?

Harry said that he rode the Autobahn at the time, was impressed, and the Interstate highway system for the US was in the future. I forgot to ask who was with him.

As an aside, I had 1967 Ford Fairlane 500 XL in Germany. I drove from Heidelberg to Munich on the Autobahn, and there was no speed limit. I don't know if that is still the case. I was doing well over 100 mph in the left lane when a car at least a tenth of a mile back started flashing his lights for me to get out of the way. I moved to the right lane and then this Porche came zooming by at a horrendous speed.

The Autobahn portions that Hitler built were not as safe or as roomy as the Interstate system. The exits and entries shared the same pavement and were not as spread out as with an Interstate. But, while I was in Germany the government started adding more to the system. These were upgraded versions and rivaled the roominess and safety of the American system.

[WCHS'59]

Originally Posted by MRG Dallas

The other episode I have taped in the same series is about drifter Richard Speck who killed 8 nursing students in the Summer of 1966.

Almost 50 years to the day. July 13. A real shocker, even more so since mass murders were almost unheard of.

Do you remember Charles Starkweather in 1958?

[Mad Anthonie]

Originally Posted by WCHS'59

Harry said that he rode the Autobahn at the time, was impressed, and the Interstate highway system for the US was in the future. I forgot to ask who was with him.

As an aside, I had 1967 Ford Fairlane 500 XL in Germany. I drove from Heidelberg to Munich on the Autobahn, and there was no speed limit. I don't know if that is still the case. I was doing well over 100 mph in the left lane when a car at least a tenth of a mile back started flashing his lights for me to get out of the way. I moved to the right lane and then this Porche came zooming by at a horrendous speed.

The Autobahn portions that Hitler built were not as safe or as roomy as the Interstate system. The exits and entries shared the same pavement and were not as spread out as with an Interstate. But, while I was in Germany the government started adding more to the system. These were upgraded versions and rivaled the roominess and safety of the American system.

On July 20, 1945, President Harry Truman and General Dwight Eisenhower raced along a German autobahn between Berlin and Potsdam to a summit with Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin. Ironically, although Eisenhower was to become known as the father of the interstate system in 1956, Truman was involved in the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1944 which designated a 40,000-mile system of interstate highways. The other passenger of importance was also from Missouri, General Omar Bradley.