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Viva Cuba members met six members of the Society of American Travel Writer members and three officials from the Missouri Division of Tourism at the World’s Largest Rocker. They were interested in Route 66. Here’s what they focused on as we toured: 1. The Rocker and meeting Dan Sanazaro, owner of the Fanning US 66 [...]
Viva Cuba feels that young people are an important part of beautification, preservation, and the history of Cuba. For that reason we were glad to read of their success in this week’s Cuba Free Press. According to the article, the Cuba School District is among the top districts of the state. It has a been a long [...]
Chamber needs military information for Fourth of July Celebration and Remembrance While many think of history as a boring look at things of long ago, it is really an always-changing series of events that continue to touch our lives. A recent article in the Cuba Free Press about the 2010 plans for Cuba Missouri’s Fourth [...]
Update: Today, June 24, 2011: As Peoples Bank is having a celebration of its 110 Anniversay with refreshments and prizes, we thought that we would repost this previous blog entry featuring our hometown bank. You may not know it, but Peoples probably had the 1st bowling alley in Cuba. Yes, a bowling alley. Read about [...]
Viva Cuba’s blog has publicized our Yuletide Tour on Sunday, Dec. 6 and mentioned a few other Christmas events that we knew were occurring. But if we aren’t in charge of the events, we get our news like everyone else, from flyers, newspaper stories, and the chamber website. Publisher Rob Viehman in his week’s Cuba [...]
Tuesday, Dec. 1, the second of the St. Louis KETC Channel 9′s series on Cuba, MO was posted on their website. It features interviews with Mardy Leathers, Jim Barnett, Jill Barnett, and Bob Baldwin. The interviewees stressed Cuba’s community spirit, resilence, and close family ties. Scenes from Cuba’s streets played on the screen. To see [...]
Leslie Sanazaro Santi is a Cuba girl who started her budding career when she was 11 years old and played the saxophone. But she was always a singer and majored in vocal performance in college. Although she is classically trained, she also has a background in jazz and other types of music. “I’m in love [...]
Vera Cantley’s column “Recalling the Past” in the Cuba Free Press provided the information below, which was based on a 1906 Cuba Review article that was copied from the St. Louis Globe Democrat. Now, we are wringing the last bit of news from the information. Viva Cuba’s Apple mural on W. Washington reflects the importance [...]
from the Joe Sonderman Photo Collection I don’t know about you, but I love to look at old photos, especially ones with old signs, cars, and buildings. The above photo has it all. One can see the Cuba Theatre where Wilbur Vaughn and others from Cuba use to work. Probably a lot of budding romances [...]
Tire company rolls out new mural… Cuba, Missouri ”Route 66 Mural City” just got a new mural on the front of My Place Tires. The business picked Route 66 Missouri artist Ray Harvey to paint the mural on the Route 66 business. A Cuba Free Press article “Tire shop goes the extra mile in outdoor [...]
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