They keep it light and lively— Wisconsin Dells and The Cave WBBM in their own words. I recall we did a show earlier this spring on the Dells, didn’t we? Yes, we did, and we suggested that everybody should charge up to Wisconsin Dells because it was too far, so it’s not an expensive trip, a back easy weekend trip, and we recommended that everybody go in June and beat crowd. So we went in August and joined the crowds.
Captured on the go— Grand Canyon WBBM in their own words. You leave after work, you board a jet, you have a dinner, you kind of stretch out and maybe look at a newspaper, and you’re there. Phoenix is low, Flagstaff is high, like up in the mountains, and it began to be hard little pellets and then sleet, and then by the time we went through Flagstaff, it was snowing like the middle of January a couple of years ago here in Chicago. There hadn’t been any snow at that point in Chicago.
A few impressions, a few laughs— mal and jo glacier park continental divide in their own words. Now we want to tell you about 30 spectacular miles of highway. They include the continental divide, countless waterfalls, glaciers, snow bank, wind, sky, clouds, sunshine. These are the 30 miles from lake mcdonald up over and through logan pass on the other side. you can do it in your own automobile or you can do it in those unique red open top buses that handle about 15 wide-eyed customers complete with cameras we started from lake mcdonald lodge yes and by the way you can do it either direction if you come to east you can take trip toward the west and you can do it in your own car but really it’s much more fun to do it in the bus because you can’t open the top of your own car and you’ve got a convertible and with the top rolled back you have the view of mountain I don’t think that I’ve seen any mountains like these any place in the United States ever they are just all around you whichever direction you look there’s a snow cap mountain and start out and you see the ravages of nature the forest fires that they have suffered through one last year destroyed great section of the garden wall and we were told came very close to many glacier lodge they had to soak down the hotel and water log as our guide told us to keep it from burning but eventually though this fire started at the end of August or the beginning of September eventually it was put out by nature the snows came and as you approach logan pass you become aware of the snow it had been plowed out for us we traveled through in some of the early trips through this summer because we are here in June but the snow is still 8 10 12 and drifts of 25 feet beautiful sort of delightful to see also they give you great woolly gray blankets to cover up in so that you can keep warm while you’re traveling in the open top bus and when you get to the top of logan pass you’re happy to wrap up in a blanket you pass by one place it’s quite spectacular because you see the melting season is in effect whenever you’re able to get through logan pass and as the snow melts and as the glaciers melt the walls of stone begin to weep and there is one stretch called the weeping wall and remember all this there’s you cross the continental divide and they point out is it called triple divide mountain triple divide mountain yes where the water runs off you’d better tell them the three different directions I’ll get lost well from this one immense mountain depending on which way a drop of water goes it goes into Hudson Bay running off across Canada or it runs into the Missouri River chain and ends up in the Gulf of Mexico or it runs west and ends up in the Pacific Ocean incredible feeling this continental divide the garden wall that Joe mentioned that’s the wall of mount of sheer vertical precipice that is jagged it looks like a razor back and this is in essence what divides east from west and then there’s st. Mary’s Lake you look up the lake beautiful peaks and out in the middle there’s a very tiny island called goose island and the water is such a marvelous turquoise blue and the sky is such an intense blue and then they’re all the snow-capped mountains and then as you proceed to the east the land begins to flatten out a little bit and you’re a little sorry because the mountains are behind you and now you’re in a blackfoot Indian reservation and there are a number of Indians who still live here and live under the tribal law regulations and most of them are very poor they’ve had a bad time and they take care of cattle and sheep and work in various forms of agriculture the money comes into the tribal fund and they are sort of doled out money on which to live then you get to a little town called bab make a hard angle turn to your left and come back into the mountains and that’s where we’ll pick up our story the next time because that will be at another lodge called many glacier lodge but don’t forget it some time take a look at 30 absolutely breathtaking miles the miles over the canate over the the continental divide in Glacier National Park it’s fantastic
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Short, warm, and very much 1960s— mal and jo at Glacier Park Lake Mcdonald Lodge in their own words. Now, we want to talk to you about Glacier National Park. Since we’re staying in lodges, we can’t tell you as much as we’d like to about the camping facilities, but we will include it. In this million acres of mountain land, trails, snow, glaciers, there are four main lodges.
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A quick slice of the late‑60s— 1968 Aspen Colorado in their own words. Now it’s time for Mal and Joe to be on the go and today we’re going to take you out to Aspen, Colorado This is the right time of year and you undoubtedly think we’re going...
They keep it light and lively— 1968 Guest is Henry Ringling North in their own words. Oh, well, I won’t start being reminiscent But the other night Joe and I took our youngsters and we went down to the opening of the circus Ringling brothers Barnum and Bailey down at the amphitheater And you know you just sort of get swept up in nostalgia and watching these kids and very adult people too Who just work themselves to death then afterwards? So we want everybody to join in today My mother used to spend her summers in bearaboo when she was a little girl And so she was rather blasé about circus stuff, you know when I was a kid I had to fight to get to go to the circus because she just sort of thought everybody does But we’re we’re fascinated and have been for so long and we take our children up to bearaboo to the circus world museum Well, probably once a year just to see that and sort of keep in touch Do you ever get to bearaboo anytime the circus is playing near there when we’re in Madison or Well, I generally when we run from Minneapolis to Chicago. I was born here in Chicago But just because mother wanted to have me in the hospital and I was brought up in Baraboo between Baraboo and Sarasota, Florida What was it like?
A quick slice of the late‑60s— 1968 Hilton Head Island in their own words. We want to tell you about a trip We took a year ago that took us into an area that my wife had been researching for some time Magazines began to be left open at my side of the table and up on my headboard And there was a kind of a concerted Education campaign for a place called Hilton Head Island And you know there still aren’t too many people who know where it is when the topic comes up people say Where’s that Hilton Head Island is in South Carolina, but just off the coast of Georgia and It’s a fabulous spot. It seems to me for a family vacation be great for couples but we took all of our children and we did it during spring vacation which I think is the duriest time of the whole year here because it isn’t really spring yet and Everybody’s sort of sick and tired of winter So it’s a good time to get away and the weather at that time of year at Hilton Head just spectacular We flew from Chicago down to Atlanta You can then pick up another flight and fly from Atlanta to Savannah Georgia But since we had not driven across that part of the southeast from Atlanta to coastline We rented a Hertz car piled our suitcases right in at the airport and then with our roadmap took off We got down to Atlanta about nine o’clock in the morning We run away by about 9 30 and it took the better part of the day. Yes, the roads are not great I mean there are no super highways that leads you directly to Hilton Head So if you don’t want to drive across Georgia, you’d better just fly all the way to Savannah And then it’s I think 20 or 25 miles from there and though it is an island There’s a bridge out to it.
This one drops you right into their day— train to minneapolis clip in their own words. We are almost in Minneapolis. I think we will put a little heading on this report to you saying, hey, why don’t you go to Minneapolis and this time go by train? Let’s start at the beginning.
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Just enough detail to put you there— 1968 Hyatt Regency in Atlanta in their own words. That’s a show we have. And it shows you what a really progressive place Atlanta is. Why don’t we talk about that hotel that we stayed in? (https://www.bellairs.org/wp-content/uploads/OnTheGo/1968/Mal_and_Jo_are_on_the_go_1968_Hyatt_Regency_in_Atlanta.mp3)
Here’s one from the stack—easygoing and chatty: 1968 Mama Lena Restaurant in their own words. The fanfare, now we’ll hear what we’re having for dinner. For dessert, we’re going to have homemade cannoli, which we will make right on the stage and tell you a little bit about the restaurant, what has happened to us, what is hopefully in the future for us. It’s called Mamalinas and it’s at 24 East Chicago Avenue and it seats just 30 people.
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