Finding the unexpected in the everyday.
Only about two years after being built and opened along U.S. Route 66 (US 66) in the settlement of Grants Station (now the city of Grants) in the west-central part of New Mexico, a Standard Oil Company gas station was moved approximately 29 miles (46.7 kilometers) southeast to the community of Thoreau in the state... Continue Reading →
May 18, 2007 The Puch Bridge in northeastern Slovenia was officially opened for traffic. This structure crosses the Drava River in the town of Ptuj. The bridge was named after Johann Puch (1862-1914), a Slovene inventor and mechanic who established himself as a prolific and even pacesetting manufacturer of bicycles, motorcycles, automobiles, buses, and trucks.... Continue Reading →
Charles Edwin “Charlie” Wiggins gained an enviable reputation when it came to automobiles, whether his endeavor at any given time involved repairing and refining those motor vehicles or competing in car races. He was born on July 15, 1897, in Evansville, Indiana. Wiggins’ mother died when he was only nine years old, and he stopped... Continue Reading →
Transportation History 