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Andy Devine: Kingman
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Andy was born on October 7, 1905. His mother and his one-legged father Tom settled in Kingman, Arizona, where the family ran a local hotel. It didn't take long for Andy to get his name in in the papers. The February 29, 1908 edition of the Mohave Miner carried the news that "Andrew, the three year old child of Mr.& Mrs. Thomas Devine, fell from the rear porch of the Beale Hotel to the ground, a distance of about 13 feet sustaining a fracture of the left arm and sundry cuts and bruises. The little fellow is getting along nicely.'"
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Devine died of leukemia on February 18, 1977, at the age of 71, in Orange, California. The main street of his home town of Kingman was renamed "Andy Devine Avenue" in his honor. His career is ... highlighted in the Kingman museum and there is a star in his honor in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Andy was born in Flagstaff on October 7, 1905, where his father worked for the railroad. The following year, the family moved to Kingman to operate the Beale Hotel which Andy's father had purchased with money from a settlement for an accident in which he lost his leg.
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An enduring tribute can be found on ROUTE 66...yes, there's Andy Devine Avenue....which is around Kingman, Arizona. You'll find photos of the young Andy and family at the Mohave Museum of History and Arts and if you wanna know WHY the big square has a big thoroughfare named after him, the information is right here: http://www.citlink.net/~mocohist/museum/andy.htm
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