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Old 06-16-2015, 07:57 AM   #550
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If yesterday was on skates for some, today is decidedly on wheels. On June 16 1884 the first roller coaster in America opened at Coney Island NY. It roared along at a blistering 6 MPH for 600 feet, and cost a nickel . . . which, by my rough estimation, would equal in today's money about $328,614. And today in 1903, in Detroit MI the Ford Motor Company was incorporated. It is still in business today, even if Detroit is closed. Finally, at Columbia Record's Studio A in Manhattan, folk icon Bob Dylan flipped the switch back in 1965 and recorded what Rolling Stone magazine named the greatest song of all time.

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