The Incredible True Story Of The Man Who Created America s First Chain Restaurant George Rose/Getty Images
By Noemi Arellano-Summer/Feb. 22, 2021 3:26 pm EDT
Frederick Henry Harvey was a born entrepreneur. However, unlike McDonalds Ray Kroc, most people don t know his name or his company s mission. The Fred Harvey Company predominantly set out to sell people good food.
When traveling by train for work in Missouri and Kansas during the 1860s, Harvey noticed just how
bad train food was. Having had experience both in food service and on trains, he set out to create a hospitality company that essentially became America s first chain restaurant and the epitome of service, according to Stephen Fried s
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This is an exceptional 1878 map of the island of Lanai, in the Hawaiian Islands, prepared for the 1900 Report of the Governor of the Territory of Hawaii to the Secretary of the Interior. Although the cartographic work that produced this map was started in 1878, during the Hawaiian Monarchy, the map itself, and the report that contained it, was issued following the U.S. Government s 1898 annexation of the Hawaiian Republic. The Report was an attempt to assess and examine the newly created Hawaiian Territory s potential for Americanized administration and development. Consequently, the map focuses on Public Lands, Homestead Settlement Tracts, Grazing Lands, Pineapple Lands, Sugar Plantations, Forest Reserves, Forest Lands, Wet Lands, etc. It also features both practical and topographic details for use in administering the region. The governor at this time was George R. Carter.
Beyer s Byways: Seligman fights on in a pandemic
By John R. Beyer
For the Victorville Daily Press
According to Eric, an employee at the Rusty Bolt (his mother, Linda, owns the shop), COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on the small but usually vibrant town of Seligman, Arizona.
“Most of our tourists are from out of this country,” Eric said. “I’d say 70 to 75%, actually.”
For this iconic stop along Route 66 between Kingman and Flagstaff, that is a lot of shoppers to lose from a pandemic a loss that could be fatal for any business.
The small store sells Route 66 memorabilia, leather goods and beautiful handmade jewelry.
Original post: Police are asking for the public’s help finding a missing elderly man last seen driving in North Richland Hills. Fred Harvey, 97, was last.
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