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Join us as we celebrate the Centennial of America's first Highway the legendary and iconic Route 66 which was constructed on April 30th 1926 and was federally recognized as the nation's first Highway and officially added to the United States Numbered Highway System. Route 66 was officially removed from the United States Highway System on June 27, 1985. It was decommissioned after being entirely replaced by the modern Interstate Highway System. It was recognized in popular culture by both the 1946 hit song "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66" and the Route 66 television series, which aired on CBS from 1960 to 1964. It was also featured in the Disney/Pixar animated feature film franchise Cars, beginning in 2006. In John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath (1939), the highway symbolizes escape, loss, and the hope of a new beginning; Steinbeck dubbed it the Mother Road. Other designations and nicknames include the Will Rogers Highway and the Main Street of America
Media One Radio remembers two legends ...
10 years ago today we lost Prince on April 21, 2016 at the of age 57, and 23 years ago today we lost Nina Simone on April 21, 2003 at the age of 70, both on the same day in two separate moments and situations in time, a powerful coincidence that marked two generations across two musical genres forever
When Marvin Gaye died he was 1.9 million dollars in debt. His family couldn't even afford a proper burial. Stevie Wonder flew to LA but he did not seek the spotlight instead, he opened up a shell account called "The Black Knight" and wired $100,000. When Motown refused at Gold casket Stevie said "You can't put the greatest voice in an ordinary box" he continued helping Marvin's mother for years disguising his help as royalties so she believed that her son still protected her. In 2026 Marvin's sister said that Stevie paid with his heart because "Marvin died penniless" and Stevie Wonder wanted to make sure that his goodbye was golden!
The House That Lenny Built
𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐊𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐲 𝐁𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐞, 𝐝𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐲 𝐁𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐞
𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐜𝐲, 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐚𝐭 𝟕𝟎.
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Born Brandy Kathleen Bruce in Miami in 1955, Kitty was the only child of comedian Lenny Bruce and dancer Honey Harlow. She was just 11 when her father died, and she spent much of her life carrying his story forward, preserving his papers, tapes, and photographs for decades in her small Pennsylvania home before donating the entire archive to Brandeis University.
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She acted in a handful of films in the 1970s, including Switchblade Sisters and Bad, and later appeared in the 1998 documentary Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth. But her most meaningful work came after she entered recovery in 2006. Two years later she founded the Lenny Bruce Memorial Foundation, a nonprofit that provides scholarships for treatment and sober living to those in early recovery from addiction. She turned her family’s hardest inheritance into something that quietly helped countless others find their way back.
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On Mother’s Day, just five days before she died, Kitty shared a photo of her parents on social media and wrote that they were together in heaven. She had no idea how soon she would join them.