Established: 1960
Motel 6 Motel 6 was founded in 1960 in Santa Barbara, California by building contractors, William Becker and Paul Greene. Their plan was to build motels that could offer rooms a a bargain price. After calculating the all cost it was decided that a room would have a nightly cost of $6, hence the company [...]
Golden Gate Bridge
The Golden Gate Bridge has become a central element of the San Francisco landscape and it was opened for the first time on May 27, 1937. On that day it was opened for ‘Pedestrian Day’. Over 200,000 people paid 25 cents to walk the bridge. On the following day at noon President Franklin Roosevelt in [...]
Saving Energy in Business
1. Turn off or set office equipment to power down when not in use. Turning off one computer and monitor nightly and on weekends could save up to $80 a year. It’s a good idea to set PCs, monitors and copiers to use sleep mode when not in use. 2. Choose ENERGY STAR® products when [...]
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
On May 24, 1830 the first section of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad opened. This section ran from Baltimore to the town of Ellicott’s Mills (now called Ellicott City. The original terminus in Ellicott City is the oldest surviving station in America and now is a museum where there is a 40-foot model train layout [...]
Classic Lines from the Motion Picture M*A*S*H
1. [F]air is fair. If I nail Hotlips, and punch Hawkeye, can I go home? – Capt. Duke Forrest. 2. This isn’t a hospital, it’s an insane asylum! – Maj. Margaret Houlihan 3. No, no, no! No food, no food. Bring me sex, I want sex, bring me some sex! No, no, no! That one. [...]
He Changed What We Read
Harold Robbins with more than 20 published books in 32 different languages and selling over 750 million copies can easily be considered one of the World’s Bestselling Author. He was born on May 21, 1916 and although he often claimed to be a Jewish orphan (just like the character in his first novel Never Love [...]
Quotes of Wisdom from Star Wars
It’s amazing how a movie can stick with you. For me that movie was Star Wars. The original one that George Lucas produced over 30 years ago in 1977. The one that didn’t have Star Wars:The X X X and long before it was Star Wars:Episode buh buh. Some people may even live by the [...]
Phrases to think upon
1) A person, who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person. 2) There comes a time when you stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is age eleven. 3) People who want to share their religious views with you almost never [...]
Rodgers and Hart
Richard Rodgers is perhaps the greatest American musical composer. His greatest fame came with his work with Oscar Hammerstein II and the many musicals they were involved with in the mid 20th Century. The Sound Of Music, Oklahoma, South Pacific and many more. But Rodgers had been a successful composer long before his work with [...]
Margaret Hamilton
Nearly everyone’s vision of a wicked old witch comes from the Wicked Witch of the West from the movie Wizard of Oz. The role of the witch was played by Margaret Hamilton who was born on December 9th in 1902. Even though her most famous role has frighten many children since its release in 1939, [...]
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