Word: bernardino
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bernardino, Calif...
EUGENE E. CARLTON San Bernardino, Calif...
...Luxe between Chicago and Los Angeles provided passengers with tubs and showers, a library, stock quotations and news reports, and the services of a barber, manicurist, lady's maid and train secretary. And, reports Railroad Buff Lucius Beebe, "at the top of the Cajon Pass out of San Bernardino, uniformed messengers boarded the De Luxe with bouquets of fresh flowers for every lady passenger and alligator billfolds for the gentlemen...
...enable the line to carry 150,000 to 200,000 passengers a year at 10? per seat mile, as against the old S-55s 40,000 passengers and 17.9? per seat mile. It takes three hours of freeway driving to get to the Los Angeles International Airport from San Bernardino. The S-61 will make it in 34 minutes for $8. The passenger flying into Los Angeles from out of town need pay only a $2 surcharge to be helicoptered out to San Bernardino...
...detours. After early stretches as a jazz pianist and musical director of Oak Park, Ill. radio station WGES, Kroc spent 17 years selling paper cups and then Multimixer milk-shake makers. One day in 1954 he stopped at a drive-in run by two brothers named McDonald in San Bernardino, Calif. Impressed by their efficient operation, Kroc struck a bargain with the brothers: in return for use of the McDonald name and techniques, he agreed to pay them 0.5% of all future sales of what he already envisioned as a nationwide chain of franchised drive...