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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: franksolich on June 23, 2013, 03:02:22 PM
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http://norfolkdailynews.com/news/enthusiasts-mark-th-birthday-of-lincoln-highway/article_03a5e082-db48-11e2-95ee-001a4bcf6878.html
Oh my.
<<<knows U.S. Highway 30 like the back of the hand.
Enthusiasts mark 100th birthday of Lincoln Highway
Some stretches of the historic coast-to-coast Lincoln Highway over the next week could look like a scene straight out of an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel.
Two processions of Model Ts, Model As and other cars are setting out this weekend, making their way from New York and San Francisco to the midpoint of Kearney, Neb., to celebrate the 100th year of the Lincoln Highway, considered to be the nation's first transcontinental highway.
"The Lincoln Highway started it all for the automobile," said Paul Gilger, president of the California chapter of The Lincoln Highway Association, who is leading the tour from San Francisco. "Before that, people traveling outside of their town did so on a train."
The highway was the precursor to America's highway and interstate system and in a sense marked the birth of trucking. Before its creation, people primarily ate only what was grown or raised near them, he said.....
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This will be a good event for Kearney.
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From the title I thought this was going to be about Route 66.
I'm going to go ponder my error for a minute.
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From the title I thought this was going to be about Route 66.
I'm going to go ponder my error for a minute.
You thought you would be getting you kicks, didn't you ? I did too.
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You thought you would be getting you kicks, didn't you ? I did too.
Me too. :cheersmate:
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I'm only familiar with the western half of Hwy 30. One of the kids lived along it. I much prefer driving through the towns along the way rather than I-80. Pretty country and interesting places, too.
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I'm only familiar with the western half of Hwy 30. One of the kids lived along it. I much prefer driving through the towns along the way rather than I-80. Pretty country and interesting places, too.
I know I-80 all too well. One boring ass drive through Nebraska. (Sorry Frank) :-)
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I'm only familiar with the western half of Hwy 30. One of the kids lived along it. I much prefer driving through the towns along the way rather than I-80. Pretty country and interesting places, too.
If I am going from point A to point B on business or to a vacation point....it's the interstate for me....BUT..., if I am out to just enjoy a drive to some distant place at a leisurely pace, it's the back roads and old 2 lane roads where just about every cross road has a name, a country store and is the center of some small community. I love to stop for some made up reason and just strike up a conversation with who ever will talk to me.....my wife hates my spur of the moment trips to no where in particular, at no particular pace, for no particular reason, to see nothing in particular.
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[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndv6a73Gq4g[/youtube]
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[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndv6a73Gq4g[/youtube]
:cheersmate:
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:cheersmate:
Thanks! I love that song! It says what the "flyover" people believe!
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Sounds like a good time. They're going to be almost a couple of months early for the auction at Lambrecht Chevrolet in Pierce, Neb. this little town is going to see an extreme influx of cash for this event.
Scores of new Chevys stored for decades undriven finally up for sale (http://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/scores-chevys-hidden-50-years-finally-sale-160911547.html)