1959 Cadillac on Route 66 | MICHAEL WALLIS - California Route 66 Annual Dinner - GRISWOLD'S INN Claremont - March 27, 1993 @CadillaconRoute | Uploaded 5 years ago | Updated May 08 2024
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March 27, 1993

Griswold's Inn - The Sierra Room
555 West Foothill Boulevard
Route 66
Claremont, California

Having traveled Route 66 from Califronia in my 1959 Cadillac the previous summer in 1992, my buddy Eric Wittman and I were anxious to make the journey again in August 1993. One of the things that sparked our enthusiasm was a book written by Michael Wallis and published in 1990 entitle, 'Route 66 - The Mother Road'. We would take that book with us on our road trip and when we remembered to do so, we had some of the highways old timers sign it for us. What perfect luck to have the author of that wonderful book be the guest speaker at the California Historic Route 66 Associations Annual Dinner in the Spring of 1993, just a few months before we would hit the road in the Caddy. We wasted no time in making our reservations for the dinner. We were an hour and a half late to the before the event mingling period as the 1959 Cadillac blew a freeze plug on the freeway on the drive to the event. We managed to take my 1960 Cadillac to the dinner instead.
Anthony Reichardt
Santa Ana, California
February 2018