Interstate 10 East to Benson, Arizona, 28 July 2016, GP070045
Interstate 10 East to Benson, Arizona, 28 July 2016, GP070045
19:02 Comfort Inn
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$95
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$95
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$95
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$95
Straightforward rooms with free hot breakfast buffet & WiFi, in hotel with an outdoor pool. - Google
630 S Village Loop, Benson, AZ 85602
choicehotels.com
(520) 586-8800
Amenities
Free Wi-Fi
Free breakfast
Free parking
Accessible
Outdoor pool
Air-conditioned
Hotel details
Just off Interstate 10, this casual hotel is 8 miles from Gammon’s Gulch Movie Set and 9.6 miles from Kartchner Caverns State Park.
The modern rooms and suites all feature free WiFi and have en suite bathrooms with showers, as well as flat-screen TVs, coffeemakers and microwaves. Suites add sitting areas with pull-out sofas and/or kitchenettes.
A complimentary hot breakfast is provided and there's a seasonal outdoor pool with a sundeck. Other amenities include a business center, an exercise room and meeting space, as well as laundry facilities (fee) and outdoor parking.
19:05 McDonald's
Classic, long-running fast-food chain known for its burgers, fries & shakes. - Google
618 AZ-90, Benson, AZ 85602
mcdonalds.com
(520) 586-7337
Open now: 4AM–12AM
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19:09 Love's Travel Stop
Diesel
$2.33
Regular
$2.16
Midgrade
$2.41
Premium
$2.66
643 S. Highway 90, I-10 Exit 302, Benson, AZ 85602
myloves460.com
(520) 586-8702
Open now: Open 24 hours
19:15 Motel 6
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$49
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$49
Unpretentious budget lodging with an outdoor pool, plus free WiFi, parking & morning coffee. - Google
637 Whetstone Commerce Dr, Benson, AZ 85602
motel6.com
(520) 586-0066
Amenities
Free Wi-Fi
Free breakfast
Free parking
Accessible
Outdoor pool
Air-conditioned
Hotel details
Off Interstate 10, this simple budget lodging is 3.7 miles from Benson's main street, while the Kartchner Caverns State Park is less than 10 miles.
The standard rooms include minifridges and TVs with expanded cable channels, plus free WiFi, while some rooms add microwaves. Kids 17 and under stay free with an adult family member.
Free morning coffee and parking are offered, as well as a year-round outdoor pool and a coin laundry.
21:02 Best Western Quail Hollow Inn
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$49
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$58
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$49
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$58
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Functional hotel offering an outdoor pool, a hot tub & a fitness center, plus free cooked breakfast. - Google
699 N Ocotillo Rd, Benson, AZ 85602
book.bestwestern.com
(520) 586-3646
Amenities
Free Wi-Fi
Free breakfast
Free parking
Accessible
Outdoor pool
Air-conditioned
Hotel details
Alongside I-10 on the outskirts of Benson, this understated hotel is 1.2 miles from San Pedro Golf Course and 11.7 miles from Kartchner Caverns State Park.
Traditional rooms and suites provide high-speed Internet access and cable TV, as well as coffeemakers, microwaves and minifridges. Some have mountain views, while suites add DVD players and pull-out sofas. Kids 13 and under stay free with an adult.
Cooked breakfast is complimentary. Amenities include an outdoor pool, a hot tub and a sundeck, plus a fitness center, a guest laundry (fee) and a business center.
21:04 Benson Donuts
690 N Ocotillo Rd, Benson, AZ 85602
(520) 586-3966
Closing soon: 5:30AM–5:30PM
21:05 Cardtronics ATM, Texaco
Benson Plaza Restaurant, 696 N Ocotillo Rd, Benson, AZ 85602
25:37 Yucca
Our Miss Brooks: Exchanging Gifts / Halloween Party / Elephant Mascot / The Party Line
Our Miss Brooks is an American situation comedy starring Eve Arden as a sardonic high school English teacher. It began as a radio show broadcast from 1948 to 1957. When the show was adapted to television (1952--56), it became one of the medium's earliest hits. In 1956, the sitcom was adapted for big screen in the film of the same name.
Connie (Constance) Brooks (Eve Arden), an English teacher at fictional Madison High School.
Osgood Conklin (Gale Gordon), blustery, gruff, crooked and unsympathetic Madison High principal, a near-constant pain to his faculty and students. (Conklin was played by Joseph Forte in the show's first episode; Gordon succeeded him for the rest of the series' run.) Occasionally Conklin would rig competitions at the school--such as that for prom queen--so that his daughter Harriet would win.
Walter Denton (Richard Crenna, billed at the time as Dick Crenna), a Madison High student, well-intentioned and clumsy, with a nasally high, cracking voice, often driving Miss Brooks (his self-professed favorite teacher) to school in a broken-down jalopy. Miss Brooks' references to her own usually-in-the-shop car became one of the show's running gags.
Philip Boynton (Jeff Chandler on radio, billed sometimes under his birth name Ira Grossel); Robert Rockwell on both radio and television), Madison High biology teacher, the shy and often clueless object of Miss Brooks' affections.
Margaret Davis (Jane Morgan), Miss Brooks' absentminded landlady, whose two trademarks are a cat named Minerva, and a penchant for whipping up exotic and often inedible breakfasts.
Harriet Conklin (Gloria McMillan), Madison High student and daughter of principal Conklin. A sometime love interest for Walter Denton, Harriet was honest and guileless with none of her father's malevolence and dishonesty.
Stretch (Fabian) Snodgrass (Leonard Smith), dull-witted Madison High athletic star and Walter's best friend.
Daisy Enright (Mary Jane Croft), Madison High English teacher, and a scheming professional and romantic rival to Miss Brooks.
Jacques Monet (Gerald Mohr), a French teacher.
Our Miss Brooks was a hit on radio from the outset; within eight months of its launch as a regular series, the show landed several honors, including four for Eve Arden, who won polls in four individual publications of the time. Arden had actually been the third choice to play the title role. Harry Ackerman, West Coast director of programming, wanted Shirley Booth for the part, but as he told historian Gerald Nachman many years later, he realized Booth was too focused on the underpaid downside of public school teaching at the time to have fun with the role.
Lucille Ball was believed to have been the next choice, but she was already committed to My Favorite Husband and didn't audition. Chairman Bill Paley, who was friendly with Arden, persuaded her to audition for the part. With a slightly rewritten audition script--Osgood Conklin, for example, was originally written as a school board president but was now written as the incoming new Madison principal--Arden agreed to give the newly-revamped show a try.
Produced by Larry Berns and written by director Al Lewis, Our Miss Brooks premiered on July 19, 1948. According to radio critic John Crosby, her lines were very feline in dialogue scenes with principal Conklin and would-be boyfriend Boynton, with sharp, witty comebacks. The interplay between the cast--blustery Conklin, nebbishy Denton, accommodating Harriet, absentminded Mrs. Davis, clueless Boynton, scheming Miss Enright--also received positive reviews.
Arden won a radio listeners' poll by Radio Mirror magazine as the top ranking comedienne of 1948-49, receiving her award at the end of an Our Miss Brooks broadcast that March. I'm certainly going to try in the coming months to merit the honor you've bestowed upon me, because I understand that if I win this two years in a row, I get to keep Mr. Boynton, she joked. But she was also a hit with the critics; a winter 1949 poll of newspaper and magazine radio editors taken by Motion Picture Daily named her the year's best radio comedienne.
For its entire radio life, the show was sponsored by Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, promoting Palmolive soap, Lustre Creme shampoo and Toni hair care products. The radio series continued until 1957, a year after its television life ended.