AUGUST 3-- The Effects of COVID-19 closes Palms Grill Cafe in Atlanta, Illinois. It closed on Sunday and is owned by the Atlanta Public Library who hope that anew management team will take over running the place.
They have had three operators in the ten years it has been open. Hopefully it will reopen again soon as it is a real trip back into time. We ate there last year when we found that another one of our favorite places in nearby Lincoln, the Bonanza Sirloin Pit, had closed.
We're still sad about that as their food was great and then there were those fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies and huge rolls. They used to brag that "Our Rolls Are Too Good to Be Throwed" as a knock at some other place.
AUGUST 5-- A car show fundraiser for the Route 66 Museum in Victorville, California, raised $16,000.
AUGUST 7-- One thousand wild burros will soon be removed from Arizona's Black Magic Mountain Range.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management says the burros have overpopulated and damage the range. Of course, we are also talking about Oatman's famed little beggars (well, DEMANDERS I should say).
They will be put up for adoption, so if you ever wanted a spoiled little semi wild burro, now's your chance. Those not adopted will be put up at an off-range facility.
These burros are the descendants of burros used in the old gold mines a century ago. When the mines closed, the burros were turned loose. They overpopulated because they have no natural predators.
And, as we all know, they roam the streets of Oatman and are a huge tourist draw. Hopefully, they will keep some of the Oatman burros.
Just Don't Figure You're Going to Get By Without Feeding Them. --RoadBurro
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