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Apr 13, 2009 | Daily Bulletin

70 years after Steinbeck's classic

The Mother Road today turns 70 years old. Fabled Route 66 was formally created as a federal highway in 1926, but it was on April 14, 1939 that John Steinbeck's novel "Grapes of Wrath" was published, elevating the highway to something mystical.

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Wed Apr 08, 2009

San Diego Union-Tribune

Road trip:

Eight concrete Pleistocene-era creatures are cruising down the highway and will arrive at the San Diego Zoo Wednesday night, after making their way from Wisconsin on a flat-bed truck.

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Sun Dec 21, 2008

Desert Dispatch

Cops treat thousands of kids, teens with toys

BARSTOW When sirens blared in eight-year-old Sharai Andrade's neighborhood on Saturday morning, Andrade knew exactly what to do: She woke up her younger sister, got their mother and rushed out the door.

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