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March 12, 1946<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

February 1946. World War II is over and wartime production jobs were ending. During the war, Carl and Georgie worked a number of jobs in several places, finishing the war in Pocatello, Idaho. They elected to return to Iowa, where they both had family, but opted to make a grand tour of the west on the way. Georgie wrote a journal of the trip. The story starts here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Stayed overnight in Oklahoma and drove into Arkansas the next day. Came through Ft. Smith and Van Buren, the home of Bob Burns. This was hill country. Stopped at Burns Gables and bought a pair of shell earrings..<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Google (ND) [Directions from Dewar, OK, to Pineville, MO] Retrieved February 13, 2021 (Estimated overnight stop)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Photo of Burns Gables. (no photographer noted)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Walt’s Comments<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mom didn\u2019t give us much to work with here.\u00a0 But at this point she had been on the road for 24 days, and I suspect that the most interesting thing to her was how much closer to home she had gotten.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Bob Burns and the bazooka<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Bob Burns was a musician and actor.\u00a0 He specialized in brass instruments and was playing in a coronet band by the age of twelve.\u00a0 At thirteen, he started a string band and had built his signature instrument.\u00a0 He called it a bazooka and it was built of a whiskey funnel and spare gas fittings.\u00a0 It was designed to have a very narrow range and peculiar tone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bob went on to perform on radio shows, telling stories of life in the Arkansas hills, playing his bazooka between stories.\u00a0 He became a popular guest on a number shows with hosts such as Rudy Vallee.\u00a0 He moved to Los Angeles and had bit parts in several movies.\u00a0 He made his feature length debut in Rhythm on the Range <\/em>alongside Bing Crosby, which was also Bing\u2019s first major film role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Bob appeared in many films, he was best known for his radio programs.\u00a0 His radio drama, The Arkansas Traveler <\/em>(later titled The Bob Burns Show<\/em>), ran from 1941 to 1947.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bob\u2019s bazooka lent its name to the World War 2 anti-tank weapon due to its similar appearance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Digging Deeper<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

You can learn more about Bob Burns here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abandoned Arkansas has information about Burn’s Gables<\/a> (no relation to Bob Burns).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Information about fish scales<\/a> as a dating mechanism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fort Smith, Arkansas. also has an interesting history<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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