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Many links to newspaper articles are valid only for one week to one month after publication.
by Russell "ypsi-slim" Rein
Hey - it's time for slim's heart-o'-the-summer Lincoln Highway E-Newletter. Just got back from a combo business-pleasure trip in Austin, TX perhaps the BBQ capital of the world. Frequent road trip navigator Terry "Pops" Silver joined me on the Texas Barbeque Trail to Elgin, Taylor, Lockhart and Luling, where we sampled the finest hand made smoked sausage known to man, and quite a few Shiner Bocks. Find out more about it at: www.texasbbqtrail.com.
There's still time to register for the Indiana Lincoln Highway Symposium — Building Tourism from an Old Road, to be held July 28th and 29th in South Bend. Highlights include a walking tour of downtown South Bend (where the Lincoln and Dixie Highways cross), a chance to meet author Brian Butko and artist Mary Ann Michna, a tour of the new relocated Studebaker Museum, a car show sponsored by Zolman Tire, many presentations covering road related preservation projects, and lots of good will. The symposium is sponsored by the Indiana Chapter of the Lincoln Highway Association, Indiana Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology, Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana, Indiana Center for History, Studebaker National Museum and Indiana Main Street. Everyone is welcome. There is a complete schedule of events at the Indiana LHA web page:
Hope to see you there!Coming soon - Thursday thru Saturday, August 10-12,
2006 the Lincoln Highway Buy-Way Yard Sale returns.
This year's Lincoln Highway garage sale expands from Ohio
thru Indiana - over 500 miles! There are many events, and
a complete listing can be found at:
www.historicbyway.com/buywaylocations.html
There will be a special postal cancellation at 39 post offices
across Ohio, more info and a link to the locations is at:
www.historicbyway.com/June_7_2006_PressRelease.html
More info can be found at the Ohio Lincoln Highway
Historic Byway home:
www.historicbyway.com
I will be adding more information regarding Indiana LH
Buy-Way sites within the next few days at:
www.indianalincolnhighway.com
A Japanese couple, Toshio and Hiroko Koshimizu, have toured the entire Lincoln Highway this year, and have created an amazing web-site with slide shows covering the entire route. Takes about two hours to view the entire trip - and it's worth it - a wonderful resource including documentation of many of the concrete markers. Each link takes you to a page with a link to start the slide show. At the second page click the green arrow button to begin:
8/12/2006 - Editor's note: we have removed the links, because someone has hacked into their web site and replaced the content with their own. If it is ever replaced, we will restore the links.
From Public Radio's Weekend America comes Road Trip:
Pack your bags and gas up the tank. Weekend America kicks off its summer road trip series on the Lincoln Highway, America's first coast-to-coast road. Amanda Aronczyk, Weekend America's East Coast editor, begins the journey in Times Square, New York City, where the highway starts. With a 1924 edition of "The Complete Official Road Guide of the Lincoln Highway" in tow, she looks for vestiges of the old route. We will continue the road trip throughout the summer on the show. The next leg picks up in the Midwest.
to be continued throughout the summer............
The truck convoy celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Interstate system received lots of coverage, here's some links to explore:
Many of these articles mention the Lincoln Highway, and offer their own interesting slant on things. I am disappointed that the Lincoln Highway Association was not mentioned.
The LHA Conference in 2007 will explore the little known
LH Colorado loop and will be hq'd in Fort Morgan, CO.
Historic Ligonier PA House tour sponsored by the Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor
A review of Kevin Kutz's Lincoln Highway, a new book featuring his drawings and paintings, published by Stackpole Press, from the Patriot-News.
The Lincoln Highway Bed & Breakfast, built in 1846, is now open in Van Wert, OH.
From the Indiana Department of Transportation:
LAPORTE, Ind. – The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) today announced it has awarded nearly $20 million in Transportation Enhancement Program (TEP) funds statewide. Each year, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) sets aside funds that states award to develop and build projects that enhance the existing transportation system. Indiana’s Transportation Enhancement Program allows funding for transportation projects to expand beyond the traditional accommodations for cars, trucks, buses and transit. In addition, TE projects expand transportation opportunities to a broader range of users. All TE projects include a required 20-percent local match to demonstrate a strong local commitment to the project.
Transportation Enhancements are transportion- related activities that strengthen the cultural, aesthetic and environmental aspects of the nation’s inter-modal transportation system. TEP funds finance a wide range of nontraditional projects including the restoration of historic transportation facilities, bike and pedestrian facilities, landscaping and scenic beautification and mitigation of water pollution from highway runoff....
Valparaiso Downtown Streetscape: A $625,000 award will allow the City of Valparaiso to revitalize the historic Lincoln Highway Corridor (State Road 130). The project includes new sidewalks, streetlights, traffic signals, benches, bicycle racks, trash receptacles and street trees in a two-block area of the downtown corridor.
This project will include Lincoln Highway signs, reproduction concrete posts, and one recently donated real concrete post.
From the (Sycamore, IL) MidWeek: Moose just keep on working
And checkout my Mooseheart pages (click on "more" to navigate thru the site)
Plans to expand the Glidden Homestead on the LH in DeKalb, IL from the (DeKalb, IL) Daily Chronicle
A new group is formed in DeKalb to lead the Lincoln Highway corridor revitalization efforts, from the Daily Chronicle.
Sandii Huemann-Kelly has posted the LHA Cedar Rapids "post-conference" update.
Dawson County Historical Museum in Lexington, NE is a destination [Lexington (NE) Clipper-Herald].
According to the Fernley Leader-Dayton Courier, Lincoln Highway signs unceremoniously appeared in Dayton, NV.
Historic Summit Garage in Altamont on the LH still standing, from the Tracy (CA) Press
Two New York Times book reviews of Robert Sullivan's new book - Cross Country, Fifteen Years and 90,000 Miles on the Roads and Interstates of America With Lewis and Clark, a Lot of Bad Motels, a Moving Van, Emily Post, Jack Kerouac, My Wife, My Mother-in-Law, Two Kids, and Enough Coffee to Kill an Elephant:
From NPR Weekend Edition - Touring America on 12 Meals a Day, on the road with Jane and Michael Stern. (click the Listen link at top, and check out the road food links at the bottom)
The Gilmore Car Museum near Kalamazoo, MI has a new exhibit: Alice Ramsey - Cross Country Road Trip. Here's their press release:
Gilmore Car Museum honors Alice Ramsey, the first women to drive cross-country in an automobile. Hickory Corners, MI
One of the newest exhibits at the Gilmore Car Museum, in Hickory Corners, MI., honors the role Alice Ramsey had in automotive history as the first woman to drive across the country. From the time the automobile first appeared in the United States in the late 1890s, several only dreamt of making a transcontinental trip in the "new fangled contraption." With less than 150 miles of paved roads in the entire nation-most of which were located in the east-and the horse and buggy being the norm of transportation, a cross country trip didn't seem like a realistic endeavor. That was, until 1903 when Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson, on a whim and a fifty-dollar bet, started his journey across the Untied States. Departing San Francisco in a 20 horsepower Winton Touring car, Jackson endured unpredictable weather, getting lost, flat tires, and nonexistent roads. Sixty-three days later, he arrived in New York City, making Jackson the first person to successfully drive an automobile across the country.
In 1909, the Maxwell Motor Company challenged 22-year old Alice Ramsey, a housewife and mother from Hackensack, NJ., to repeat Jackson's record breaking trip in an effort to persuade more American women to take up driving. Alice accepted the challenge and on June 9th, 1909, she and three woman companions-none of whom drove-left New York in a Maxwell touring car and headed for San Francisco. Up until this time, only two-dozen automobiles- all of which had been driven by men-had successfully made the drive across the nation since Jackson's infamous 1903 trip. At that time, women were discouraged from driving, suggesting that simply riding in a car was dangerous for them. Some doctors actually warned of "Automobile Face," which was said to cause a perpetually opened mouth, resulting in sinus trouble. Ramsey was determined to prove them wrong. Fifty-nine days and 3,800 miles later, she and her team arrived in San Francisco, making Alice the first woman to drive across the United States.
The Gilmore Car Museum is celebrating this historic event with its newest exhibit, which recreates a scene from an original 1909 photo offering a glimpse into the driving conditions and hardships that early automotive pioneers faced. The life-sized diorama depicts Alice Ramsey and her traveling companions as they dealt with a broken axle on their 1909 Maxwell. Museum Advisory Committee member and author of "The Kalamazoo Automobilist," David Lyon and his wife, Jane, first presented the concept for the exhibit last year and have worked tirelessly to see it come to completion. This new exhibit, funded in part by Kalamazoo Auto Restorers Club, MotorCities National Heritage Area, and AAA of Michigan, provides a unique look at women's role in automotive history. Alice Ramsey's courage and determination certainly inspired countless women, and for that, she holds the honor as the first woman inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame.
"In Utah we hit a prairie dog hole in the road with such force that a tie bolt came out of the tie rod connecting the front wheels. Down went the front end, wheels spread-eagled, breaking the spring seat over the front axle. We had a pilot car with us and driver Frank Irving went back to Orr's ranch where they had a forge and we were able to make temporary repairs. In spite of everything, we finally made it across Nevada arriving near midnight at the Riverside Hotel in Reno."
— Alice Ramsey 1909The Gilmore Car Museum opens for its 40th season on May 1 and is open daily from of 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 PM and until 6 PM on weekends, through the end of October. Located in the heart of west Michigan, the museum is midway between Kalamazoo, Grand Rapids, and Battle Creek, on M-43 and Hickory Road. To learn more about the Gilmore Car Museum visit: www.GilmoreCarMuseum.org.
The Gilmore Car Museum is a 501(c)3 Non-profit, Educational and Historic Preservation Foundation incorporated under the laws of the State of Michigan. While you are there be sure to check out their Ypsilanti inspired 1948 Tucker. The Gilmore is also the repository for the Tucker Automobile Club of America's Historical Collection.
Ebay Auctions:
A real photo postcard of Ezra Meeker at the Old Oregon
Trail Restaurant reached $198.46:
Old Oregon Trail Restaurant Ezra Meeker Real Photo PC (eBay Item #6284920925)
The highly desired linen postcard of Dunkel's Gulf Station
on the LH in Bedford, PA brought $152.30:
Gas Station 1951 Linen Ad PC Lincoln Highway Bedford PA (#6286216807)
A real photo postcard of the gas station at the Log Cabin
Tourist Camp on the LH in Wooster, OH closed at $70.99
(aarrgghh - I forgot to bid on this!)
Gulf Oil Station, Log Cabin Tourist Camp Wooster, Ohio (#6286301195)
A set of four vintage real photo postcards of Carroll,
Iowa attracted 14 bids and brought $142.50:
Carroll Iowa Vintage Post Cards - 4 Sites (#6286333441)
A worn real photo of Budd's on Sideling Hill on the LH
in PA brought $56:
McConnellsburg-Everett PA, Budd's, Sideling Hill, RPPC (#102250430392)
A real photo postcard of Ezra Meeker with his Oregon
Trail rig at Silverton, OR brought $102.50:
RPPC Ezra Meeker Silverton Oregon Pool & Billiards 1914 (#6286597779)
Two shield-shaped (not embossed) US 8 and US 141
signs from Michigan closed at $322.88:
2 Vintage Rare Michigan Shield US Highway Signs 8 & 141 (#6638744934)
An embossed shield-shaped US 6 sign from Colorado
brought $838:
Colorado Highway 6 Sign 1937 Embossed Metal Steel Sign (#6638976435)
The elusive 1913 LHA Booklet by Engineer Frank Trego,
Lincoln Highway Route, Road Conditions and Directions,
essentially the 1st LH guide, attracted 18 bids and
closed at $340.99 (I've only seen this once before):
Lincoln Highway Map 1913 (#6638409769)
Some stole a complete set of the Keystone Geography
set of the Lincoln Highway stereoscope views when
the auction it closed after 11 bids at $139.50 (These
real photo stereoview typically bring $5 - $10 each,
and whole sets which are rare should add a premium):
2 Keystone Geo. Boxed Sets Lincoln Highway (#102250995822)
A water-transfer souvenir decal of the Grandview Ship
Hotel on the LH in PA attracted 12 bids and closed at
$91.03 (Is this a new decal record?):
Travel Decal Pennsylvania Grand View Ship Hotel Goldfar (#120001136801)
A printed black and white postcard interior view of the
famed Ariston Restaurant on Rt 66 in Litchfield, IL
closed at $62:
Ariston Restaurant Litchfield IL US Route 66 Postcard (#190004807652)
A very nice real photo postcard of the Sierra Tavern
in Truckee, CA brought $179.26:
RPPC, Truckee, Ca., Garage, tavern (#150006179881)
A 1909-1910 Pierce - Arrow Motor Car Co Instruction Booklet attracted 12 bids and closed at $4,045 - whoa! Veteran Pierce - Arrow 1909-1910 Instruction Book (#180002013871)
A medallion from a 1928 Lincoln Highway concrete
marker attracted 20 bids and closed at $255:
Abraham Lincoln Highway Portrait Plaque (#110005893141)
A straight-thru porcelain LH sign from the California
State Automobile Association, with noted flaws
was won by a noted sign collector at $705:
Lincoln Highway Metal Sign-Cal. State Automotive Ass'n (#160005853975)
A real photo postcard of Lookout Point Hotel at
Emigrant Gap, CA brought $66:
CA old RPPC postcard Sunset Emigrant Gap Lookout Pt (#300005797383)
A 1922 Pikes Peak Ocean to Ocean map booklet
(1/2 of a set - the other booklet covers place
descriptions, lodging, etc.) brought $102.50:
scarce 1922 Pikes Peak Ocean To Ocean Highway brochure (#120006796791)
A scarce real photo view of the Hill Crest Gas
Station at Tulls Hill on the LH in PA closed at
$112.99 after 16 bids:
RPPC Postcard Hill Crest Tulls Hill Bedford PA. U.S. 30 (#330007052058)
An older real photo postcard of a gas station
in Hooker, MO (which I assume is near Devil's
Elbow - Route 66) brought only 4 bids and
closed at $282.45:
Photo Postcard Hooker Missouri Gas Station (#330007560743)
Another one of those cast iron toy US 30 signs
showed up and closed at $40.66:
Old cast iron "U.S 30" highway sign Arcade c.1930's (#330007898169)
Hey folks - that's all for now. Try to stay cool - hey you're already pretty cool if you're readin' this.
yer pal,
ypsi-slim