Lincoln Highway E-Newsletter
Volume 18 • September 2006
Many links to newspaper articles are valid only for one week to one month after publication.
by Russell "ypsi-slim" Rein
Hey - It's back - your Lincoln Highway E-Newsletter. I hope
everyone had a great summer, and were able to take some
road trips.
The American Road Magazine's Yahoo group discussion
forum
has been closed, and is now replaced by the American Road
Foundation's own forum site:
I will be moderating the Lincoln and Dixie Highway forums
on this site. Please take the time to register and peruse the
site.
Unlike Yahoo which pushed out all new e-mail if desired, the
new site requires you to login and read postings on line. You
can, though, get e-mail notification of new postings. It includes a
lot of options to personalize your experience, and a photo gallery
to post your pictures.
Anyone needing assistance logging in to the new Forum can
contact Becky Repp for assistance via e-mail.
becky@americanroadmagazine.com
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Toshio
Koshimizu's Lincoln Highway trip website was hacked into by
pro-Hezbollah
sympathizers who posted grisly pictures purported to
be victims of the recent
Mideast conflict. We have removed these
links in the last newsletter
posted to the Lincoln Highway Association
website. Toshio now
has a more secure web hosting service.
The re-posted trip pics are
at:
http://isao-net.com/driving/LINCOLN/index.html
Koshimizu's
Lincoln Highway itinerary as originally posted on the
American Road's Yahoo
group:
"The followings are our schedule and driving distance for each day:
June 5 (Mon) Tokyo - New York (NY) - Newark(NJ) 57 miles
6 (Tue) Newark
- Trenton(NJ) - Paradise(PA) 157 miles
7 (Wed) Paradise - Lancaster(PA) -
Greensburg(PA) 228 miles
8 (Thur) Greensburg - Chester(WV) - Wooster(OH) 196
miles
9 (Fri) Wooster - Upper Sandusky(OH) - Fort Wayne(IN) 213 miles
10
(St) Fort Wayne (stay) 31 miles
11 (Sun) Fort Wayne - South Bend(IN) -
Schererville(IN) 194 miles
12 (Mon) Schererville - Rochelle(IL) -
Clinton(IA) 195 miles
13 (Tue) Clinton - Cedar Rapids(IA) -
Marshalltown(IA) 192 miles
14 (Wed) Marshalltown - Ames(NE) - Omaha(NE)
225 miles
15 (Thur) Omaha (stay) 39 miles
16 (Fri) Omaha - Grand
Island(NE) - Lexington(NE) 276 miles
17 (Sat) Lexington - North Platte(NE) -
Sidney(NE) 231 miles
18 (Sun) Sidney - Cheyenne(WY) - Laramie(WY) 180 miles
19 (Mon) Laramie - Medicine Bow(WY) - Rock Springs(WY) 255 miles
20
(Tue) Rock Springs - Evanston(WY) - Salt Lake City(UT) 201 miles
21 (Wed)
Salt Lake City (stay) 92 miles
22 (Thur) Salt Lake City - Tooele(UT) -
Wendover(UT) 239 miles
23 (Fri) Wendover - Ely(NV) - Eureka(NV) 246 miles
24 (Sat) Eureka - Fallon(NV) - Sparks(NV) 249 miles
25 (Sun) Sparks -
Donner Pass(CA) - Sacramento(CA) 166 miles
26 (Mon) Sacramento - Vallejo(CA)
- San Francisco(CA) 120 miles
27 (Tue) San Francisco (stay) 46 miles
28
(Wed) San Francisco - 15 miles to Airport
29 (Thur) - Tokyo
Total 25
days, 4,043 miles"
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I was saddened to hear of Cecil Reed's passing, just weeks after his
being presented as Member of the Year by the Lincoln Highway
Association at the National Conference in Cedar Rapids, IA.
Cecil
was the 14th Life Member of the Association, and ran the Sepia
Motel in the '50s on the Lincoln Highway in Cedar Rapids.
Here's
an article from Cedar Rapids Gazette, 8/15/2006 passed along by
Van & Bev Becker:
Reed's Life Full of Milestones
First black elected to Legislature had long, varied
career
By Steve Gravelle, The Gazette
CEDAR RAPIDS - Cecil Reed's family was still learning of his
accomplishments Monday. "I just found out today about that, "
Sandy Reed, Cecil's daughter-in-law, said after learning he once
owned and operated a broiler chicken processing plant. "He was
a
busy man, and used his time well," said son Richard Reed, Sandy's
husband.
The death Monday of Cecil Reed, 92, marked the loss of another
connection to the state's and the nation's history. Cecil
Reed, the
first African American and the only black Republican elected
to the
Iowa House, was 50 when the federal Civil Rights Act was signed
into law in 1964.
"Before that, they wouldn't let me do anything," Cecil Reed
recalled
in a 2005 interview.
Born in Collinsville, Ill., Cecil Reed and his family moved to
Iowa
with his father's railroad job around the time of World War I.
He
graduated from high school in Cedar Rapids and worked first as a
shoeshine boy, then as a cook, waiter, bartender, janitor and
carpenter. In addition to that broilerchicken operation, he and
a
sister worked as a dance team in the 1930s, and he played bass in
his orchestra. In 1949, he became the first African-American
Chamber of Commerce member in Iowa. By the early 1950s, he
had established his own floor-refinishing service and a business
selling building maintenance supplies. When the Reed family
took
a trip west, white innkeepers refused to lodge them. That led
to
the 1953 opening of the Sepia Motel, open to everyone at Bertram
and Mount Vernon roads with Evelyn Reed listed as proprietor.
Residents of Cecil Reed's majority-white legislative district
urged
him to run, Sandy Reed said.
"That's what gave him the courage to do it, " she said. "It
wasn't
easy, but he was such a personable and distinguished man, he won
people over." Cecil Reed's legislative career lasted just one
term.
Democratic Gov. Harold Hughes appointed him to the Iowa
Employment Security Commission, launching a second career in
government service. He was later appointed regional
administrator
for the Department of Labor and an assistant administrator for the
Jobs Corp.
The government jobs took Cecil and Evelyn Reed to Kansas City,
Mo., for several years, but they returned around 2000.
"I just wanted to come home," he said in his 2005 interview.
"I
have wonderful, wonderful friends here." Cecil Reed also helped
develop an African-American history course for Des Moines
schools that became a model for other Iowa districts. The
University of Iowa Press published his autobiography, "Fly in the
Buttermilk," in 1993.
Reed received the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Award from the
local branch of the NAACP in 2002, the same year he was named
a Freedom Festival Hero. He was named the Lincoln Highway
Association's Man of the Year just two weeks ago, Richard Reed
said.
After Cecil Reed was diagnosed with cancer this spring, he
briefly
lived in a nursing facility but later returned home. "He wanted to
be
surrounded by his home and books," said Sandy
Reed.
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The AASHTO Convoy reenactment website celebrating the 50th
anniversary of the US Interstate system has pdf files of the
Convoy
Commemorative Program and Convoy Manual for download. There
are also links to a daily webcast, and the 18 stops. Check it out
at:
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AltoonaMirror.com has an article and interview with artist Kevin
Kutz about his new book Kevin Kutzs Lincoln Highway,
recently published by Stackpole Books:
Some reviews from Stackpole's site:
"His acute impressionistic paintings are a visual record of history,
reinterpreted through memory and the hand of the artist, a combination
of lore and fact, folk and sophisticate, ideal and actual."
--Mary
Thomas, from the introduction
"The expert craftsmanship and keen storytelling
in his body of work
make it a notable addition to our disappearing roadside culture and,
even more so, to the world of art."
--John Baeder, painter and author of
Diners, Sign Language, and
Gas, Food & Lodging
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Historic Princeton, NJ stone bridge, on Quaker Road, reopens after
repairs, part of the Kings Highway (Upper Road and Lincoln Highway)
Historic District:
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PennLive.com suggests fall foliage tours in PA along the Lincoln
Highway and US 6:
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Lisbon, OH is having it's Johnny Appleseed festival this weekend:
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The Lincoln Highway Garage Sale this year extended past
the Ohio
Lincoln Highway Byway though both LH routes in Indiana. Like
last
year it garnered a lot of publicity and participation. Perhaps
next
year it will expand into Illinois, West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
2007 dates have been announced for August 9, 10 and 11
2007.
can get people involved next year.
Here's one of the articles on this year's shindig from Ohio.com:
And another from Van Wert, OH's TimesBulletin.com:
And another from Lisbon, OH's vindy.com:
and from Massillon's IndeOnline.com:
Here's an article from Fort Wayne's Journal Gazette, Hoosiers
can join in 400-mile garage sale, with an inset map of the
LH
routes in Indiana:
Watch a TV story about the yardsale in IN from WNDU channel 16
in South Bend, click the link for "Watch Broadband Video":
Here's an article from the South Bend Tribune:
Garage sale with
history - Event promotes Lincoln Way and its
days as highway
across U.S.
JIM MEENAN, Tribune Staff Writer
SOUTH
BEND -- Today, to many, what is now called Lincoln Way in
South Bend and
Mishawaka is simply a road that with an interruption
or two will take you
across South Bend and Mishawaka. But to those
with an appreciation of
history, and knowledge of its past, Lincoln Way
East and West is much, much
more. Long before a Holiday Inn, a rest
stop or even a simple sign on a
highway telling you how much farther
you had to go to reach the next town,
there were things like tourist
homes, where travelers spent the night in
townsfolks' homes, and hotels
that were control stations, where they learned
how far they still had to
go to reach their destination. It happened on a
coast to coast highway
called Lincoln Highway. That same Lincoln Highway is
Lincoln Way
today. Trying to celebrate that rich history the Lincoln Highway
Yard
Sale Days were held last week across Indiana and Ohio. South Bend
held the garage sale Friday and Saturday. "The whole purpose is to
draw
attention to the historic corridor," said Jan Shupert-Arick,
Indiana
director of the Lincoln Highway Association. "In Indiana we
are working to
have the Lincoln Highway routes (there are two)
designated as historic
byways." Such a designation would create
signage put it on maps, she
said. "People don't realize it was part of the
first coast-to-coast road in
the U.S.," Shupert-Arick said of the
Indiana sections of the road. "The
whole movement is to preserve what
we can along America's historic
corridors."It didn't exactly feel that
way to some of those holding garage
sales. Marlena Wilson, and her
mother, Loretto Pellow, set up shop on
Lincoln Way and Knoblock in
South Bend, not far from the airport at Wilson's
front yard. "We got
back in town and had a flier in our mailbox about the
Lincoln Way
Yard Sale, so we just knew it was the best time to do it with
all the
advertising already out," Wilson said. Neither she nor her mother
knew
about the reason behind the sale. But they were pleased to be a
part of
it. "Definitely," Pellow said. "Now that we have found out about
it.
"Much farther east, Consuealla Hopkins set up shop in front of her
business, Consuella's Accounting and Tax Service. "So far so good,"
she
said Friday morning the first day of the two day sale on Lincoln
Way. "We
are meeting a lot of people from the neighborhood,
stopping by and it's
early and we are already doing well." Baskets,
linens, home furnishings and
dresses were among her offerings with the
proceeds going to The Church of
Jesus Christ. A member of the Lincoln
Way Steering Committee, she knew the
reason behind the sales that
dotted the road. "And when we found out about
it, we definitely wanted
to do our part to promote Lincoln Way." John Oxian,
chairman of the
land use and marketing committee of the Lincoln Way West
Steering
Committee, was happy to get Lincoln Way behind the two-state
effort if just to promote the local end of the road. "We are just trying to
publicize Lincoln Way West and if it's successful, put (the garage sale)
on every year," he said. (August 9-11, 2007)
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Grassroots Indiana State Byway and Heritage Corridor
Mini-Conference:
An effort to strengthen preservation and
promotion along Indiana's
historic and scenic
corridors.
Who: INRA, Ohio River Scenic Byway, Historic
Pathways, and the
other up and coming potential state byways and heritage
corridors.
Please notify me of your
attendance.
What: The (Grassroots Initiated) Indiana Byway
Mini Conference.
Donations for lunch are accepted, otherwise, there is
no charge.
When: Friday, September 22, 10:00-3:00, includes
special ceremony
for the IHP byway after the
conference.
Where: Bedford Downtown Convention Center, 931
15th Street.
This is a 1950s JCPenny store, parking is on the street,
around the
adjacent Courthouse Square, and in a nearby parking lot behind
the
building
Why: We are trying to raise awareness about
how scenic byways may
assist in preserving and promoting our unique historic
and cultural
resources, building a stronger relationship with our State
government
partners, and sharing ideas about sustainability and stronger
byway
organizations.
Feel free to pass this onto anyone else who may be
interested in
attending. Let me know if you have further
questions,
Joseph Jarzen
Executive Director
Indiana National Road
Association
P.O. Box 284
Cambridge City, IN
47327
765.478.3172
765.478.3410 (fax)
inra@historiclandmarks.orgwww.indiananationalroad.org
Indiana Main Street/Cornelius O'Brien Preservation
Conference
will be held in Wabash, Indiana September 28-30, 2006. Sessions
relating to cultural tourism, courthouses, main streets and historic
corridors will be relevant to anyone interested in preserving sites and
interpreting the history of the Lincoln Highway through Indiana
towns.
The conference will be held in Wabash, Indiana, and includes an
evening at the Richard E. Ford estate. It's a great preservation
learning
opportunity and a wonderful setting along the Wabash River
Corridor.
Come make new like-minded preservation friends from across the
region! For more information:
"My name is Marilyn Ambos and I am President of the Dyer Chamber
of Commerce. We are hoping to do replicate a town sign from the
1920's for the town. We have a photo of the Ideal Highway sign with
the mileage to San Francisco and New York, as many of the signs did.
Are you aware of any grants that might apply to our project? I
would
appreciate your assistance in this effort." [ed. note - these folks
would
like to reerect the famous Ideal Section Billboard in Dyer. What
a
great idea! Anyone have any suggestions for funding?]
I recently found out about the new RV /
MH Museum and Library
in Elkhart. Haven't had the opportunity to visit yet but plan to soon
as
I am frequently in Northern Indiana. Here's a link to their
website:
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A new group in Dekalb has plans to revitalize downtown along the
Lincoln Highway Corridor:
DeKalb's Lincoln Highway Arch is back - On a mural:
The Beacon News Online reports about a survey of
North Aurora
residents. "When asked to rank the village's goals, the majority
rated
"enhance Lincoln Highway" as most important or second-most
important":
Yahoo's Roaddog reports on some Illinois Lincoln Highway
doin's:
"We've got big L-H doings here in Illinois during the weekend of
August 25-27 and it will involve a stretch of the highway through
downtown Dekalb being closed to traffic those days for the annual
Cornfest celebration. At the same time, the town of Rochelle, about
twenty miles west, will also be having their annual Lincoln Highway
Heritage Festival.
Dekalb's Cornfest bills itself as one of the last free music
festivals
in Illinois and annually draws 50,000 people. Besides the
music, Saturday
from 11 AM to 2, they have free sweetcorn, always
a treat and at that price that'll help offset the price of gas to get
there.
Among music offerings there will be the Pirates Over 40 Jimmy
Buffett tribute band, and Hi Infidelity band that evening. Sunday,
a
great blues band, Howard & the White Boys kicks it off, then the
Fabulous Janes, followed by Survivor, yes the "Eye of the Tiger"
band
capping it off. Along with rides and food there will be the 32nd
annual Saturday in the Park antique car gathering and bus tours of
historic Dekalb.
Meanwhile, right down the road, Rochelle is having their Lincoln
Highway Heritage Festival. This year's theme is Agriculture Then
and
Now. Music headliners will be Toad Soup on Friday, Trash 80s
on Saturday,
and Silver Creek Band on Sunday. Saturday there will
be a car and tractor/truck show. On Sunday old planes do a fly-in
On September 1st a replica LH concrete marker was erected
and dedicated by the Blair Historic Preservation Alliance in Blair,
Nebraska. This commemorates the 1929 routing of the LH
incorporating the Blair Bridge, and represents the final realignment
of
the highway:
From the Columbus, NE Telegraph, Columbus may see benefit
from
new interest in Lincoln Highway:
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Take a walking tour of Fallon, NV including "Overland Hotel,
constructed in 1907 and now on Nevada's Register of Historic Places;
across the street is the Fallon (Coverston) Garage, built in 1911.
Both
sites served travelers on the Lincoln Highway." as reported by
the Fallon Star Press:
More walking along the Lincoln Highway - a Lake Tahoe walking
trail from the Nevada Appeal:
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LHA Online Mapmeister Paul Gilger sends along this great article from
the Virtual San Francisco website about a 1939 59 hour cross-country
tour on the LH in a Hupmobile piloted by LHA Vice-President Austin
Bement:
The LHA California Chapter newsletter, The Traveler, summer ed.
reports, "As of May 2006 the stately Black Walnut trees that once
lined Grantline Road west of Tracy, CA no longer exist. They fell
prey
to the developer's bulldozer and will soon be replaced by a four lane
parkway with center meridian. These trees were planted on Feb.
22,
1923 by the Tracy Chamber of Commerce and local civic
organizations, and were donated by the State Bureau of Forestry.
The
trees were planted from the Alameda County line (west of Tracy) to
Paradise Cut (on Tracy's east side) a total of 14 miles. Within the
next
several years the planting extended east to Stockton. Some of the
trees
remain on Harlan Road. The developer has promised to
incorporate
Lincoln Highway signs in the masonry facades to be erected at both
ends of the parkway. One will be at the intersection of Grantline
Road
and Mountain House Parkway and the other on Grantline Road at the
Alameda County line."
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LHA President Bob Lichty sends along this link to an article from
the
Virginia Pilot on the Lincoln Highway by Earl Swift, with great
photos:
Click "Continuation" at the top to go to the next
page
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Photographer Debra Drower's FlickR pages includes some great
Lincoln
Highway Roadside images. Check 'em out at:
If you click on the heading "Debra Drower's photos" you can see more
of her roadside views.
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'Road Scholar' gives his family a lesson in travel, via
road trips
including the Lincoln Highway and Route 66, from the NewsTimeLive.
com, Danbury, CT:
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"To be able to safely and pleasurably ride a bicycle from Boston to
San
Francisco is one of the main goals of the National Bicycle
Greenway" reports IndyBay.org in their coverage of the 2006
Mayors' Ride for the National Bicycle Greenway.
Martin
Krieg, author and promoter of the Greenway sees a lot of parallels
between the Greenway and the Lincoln Highway. Read about it at:
Also check out the Greenway website at:
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This just in - a very important Internet research
tool:
More amazing Internet stuff - Google recently released it's Beta
search of books on-line. I tried it with "Lincoln Highway" as
the
search terms, with the following results:
Though many of the links are just a bibliographic reference,
a lot of the material is actually on-line. The first link, the
1921
Congressional Interstate Highway Hearing is available. Starting
on
page 217 is Gael Hoag's testimony regarding the Lincoln Highway:
The second link, Public School Methods, discusses a trip along the
Dixie Highway:
The fourth link is a 1918 Practical Bibliography, List
of Books on
Automobiles and Motorcycles by
Arthur R. (Arthur Reed) Blessing,
"This list ... aims to include all books on the subject
printed in the
English language....:
Check out The Lynching Bee: And Other
Poems by William Ellery
Leonard,
including A War-Movie, "Reel One,
At Jackson Corners, on Lincoln Highway
Down there in God's own Country, "I
'way".....
This is a tremendous resource providing
a way to quickly search,
index, and read the growing library of
scanned on-line books.
Everyone who has time needs to start
searching - who knows what
you will find. For material on-line you can turn the pages with the
arrows underneath
the text, or jump to a page.
You can start a search at:
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Pretty soon over 56,000, 1:24k scale digital topographic maps
produced
by the USGS will be available for download free on the
Internet thanks to Jared. Read more about it at:
and at:
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day, 8/17/2006:
thank-you-ma'am \THANK-yoo-mam\
noun : a bump or depression in a road;
especially : a ridge or hollow
made across a road on a hillside to cause water to run off
Example sentence:
"That night on the way home, thinking of his pleasant visit, he
was
suddenly shaken out of his tranquility ...
when his touring car hit a
'thank-you-ma'am' in the unpaved road." (Hugh
Manchester, Centre
Daily Times [State College, PA], August 22, 2000)
Did you know?
"Thank-you-ma'am" might seem like
an odd name for a bump in the
road, but the expression makes a little more
sense if you imagine the
motion your head would
make as you drove over such an obstacle.
Most likely, the jarring would make
you nod involuntarily. Now
think of the nodding gesture you make when you're
thanking someone
or acknowledging a favor. The "thank-you-ma'am" road bump
is
believed to have received its name when someone noted the similarity
of those two head bobbing motions. It's a colloquialism particular to
American English, and its earliest printed use is found in Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow's 1849 prose piece, Kavanagh: "We went
like
the wind over the hollows in the snow; the driver called them
'thank-you-ma'ams,' because they make every body bow."
*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.
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An article about the defranchising of exterior corridor motels from
HotelsInteractive.com, covers a short history of roadside lodging:
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Chicago Tribune readers recall fond memories of road trips:
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I collect vintage postcards, ephemera and books of
"transcontinentalists", everything from people who walked across the
country (or around the world) bicycled, roller-skated, animal drawn to
cross-country auto trip narratives. I am continually amazed at the
current activity in this vein:
From the Delphos Herald:
" Cross-country rider Gary Jakacky, 52, of Oregon paused in Delphos
briefly Friday on his way to visit relatives in Rhode Island. Jakacky, a
stock market trader, first started riding cross country at the age of 26
and chooses different parts of the United States to tour each summer.
Jakacky, who had been riding on Lincoln Highway, was delighted by
the many garage sales on his route. Equipped with refreshments and a
spare tire Friday, he continued on his way, hoping to complete his
average daily 60 miles and reach Kenton Friday evening.
Here's an article about the 30th Anniversary Cross-Country bike
trip organized by Adventure Cycling, from the
MercuryNews.com
.....and the blog from Bill Cook, a retired journalist and participant
in
the trip:
Here's a website of a guy who's motorscooting around the entire
Eastern
USA:
Gary Long is walking across the country to lose weight:
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Ebay Auctions:
A 1924 map of Kansas City, including many of the national named
highways, brought $67.88:
A 1918 Goodrich Tour Books covering St. Louis to Kansas City and
back, closed at $78.88:
A 1908 White Route Book #6 covering the National Highway and
some routes in Southern States seemed a bargain when it closed at
$34.55:
A black and white printed postcard of the Baltimore Dine on US 1
in New Brunswick, NJ reached $115.50:
A very appealing license plate topper from the Berthoud Pass
brought $76:
A black and white printed postcard of Seller's Cabins formerly
Stewart's, 8 miles east of York, PA on the Lincoln Highway
attracted
12 bids when it closed at $38.65:
A 1933 Louis Marx Lincoln Highway Electric Lighted Tin Litho
Battery
Operated Play Set with Instructions in the Original Box
was very popular with 22 bids when it closed at $1,090, [Sorry
no pics]:
A black and white printed Dexter Silvercraft postcard of Willie's
Place on the Lincoln Highway in Saluvia, PA brought $54.50:
Huh? A porcelain National Old Trails shield shaped sign with
George Washington, damaged but restorable, only received
one bid and closed at $24.99 [Sorry no pics, I can't figure out why
this didn't go for hundreds of dollars]:
A nice real photo postcard of the Beacon Hill Lodge, Donner
Summit closed at $48.77:
An attractive metal "Cabins $2.50" sign closed at $67.66:
A 1935 real photo postcard of cars in the snow at Tahoe City
somehow closed at $188.89 with just 4 bids!:
Check out this 18" round metal Lincoln Heritage Trail sign,
which brought $113.50 after 16 bids:
Road maps of Nevada are eagerly sought by collectors. This
Official State Highway one of 1935 one brought $51.01:
and this 1936 one closed at $49:
A Goodrich Nevada road map from 1919 brought $41:
This color advertising postcard of the Hotel Edward, lobby
and guest room in Omaha closed at $38:
This 1936 real photo main street of Truckee postcard
closed at $78.77:
A 15 page 1949 Drive-Inn trade magazine attracted
interest and brought $89.88:
2 real photo postcards of Lincoln Highway in Clarence, IA
closed at $41:
Some really nice vintage auto club badges surfaced last month.
[These are pretty neat - if I wasn't already collecting 101
different things .......]
Here's a nice porcelain one from the Chattanooga Auto Club
which brought $303:
A 1925 brass one from the Omaha Auto Club brought $87.10:
A shield-shaped enamel one from the National Motorists Assoc
in Van Wert, OH went for $33:
A vintage 1914 tourist guide of the Utah Uintah basin closed at
$48:
A 54 page Official Missouri Old Trails Road Book published
by the Missouri Old Trails Road Association closed at 140.10:
A printed color advertising postcard from the recent Curt Teich
company archive auction of the Monte Neva Springs outside of
Ely, NV re-auctioned on ebay brought $33.99:
An antique Lincoln Highway Auto Case made by the New Process
Co. in Warren, PA closed at $89.88:
A real photo postcard of an atom bomb test as seen from Fallon,
NV brought $53.76:
An ever popular 10" Staffordshire souvenir plate of the Grand View
Ship Hotel closed at $81.56:
Spite bidding? Mortal enemies? A 1920 Wisconsin Official
State
Highway map closed at $990 after the previous bidder bid $980:
A chrome, eagle on a globe, National Highway Assoc radiator
topper closed at $88.88 [I have an identical one but in brass]:
A Good Roads Assoc pinback went for $17.29:
A very nice 1930 US 80 brochure, the Ocean to Ocean,
transcontinental highway connecting Savannah, GA to San Diego, CA
went for $68.77:
A pictorial Grand View Point advertising card, 4.25" x 2.75" brought
$56.55:
And one of the Ridge House on the LH in Gettysburg
brought $21.50:
Well, after about 15 years I finally got one of
those US 30 cast iron
arcade signs for less than $50. The seller
claims, "These were
supposedly given out as mementos as the building of the
Lincoln
Highway progressed. In this area, I know these were given out at the
dedication of the U.S. Route 30 bridge over the Mississippi River at
Clinton, IA." Only $31.30:
A Curt Teich linen advertising postcard of a rare
Houston diner -
Simpson's Dining Car - closed at
$63.98:
A great old real photo postcard view of an early
auto on the "Shore
Road, lake Tahoe" brought $54:
A 1929 Mohawk (Tires) - Hobbs Guide of the Lincoln
Highway
West - Salt Lake City - Chicago, Denver Connection
brought $36:
One of the LH roadside icons - the Bedford Coffee
Pot - is sought
by collectors in the form of a few different real
photo postcards.
This one, the most common view, probably
taken by itinerant woman
photographer Gherkin, went for $154.00 [It has been
selling at
this price for at least 15 years, there are other
Coffee Pot views
that will go for more]:
That's all for now. Don't eat raw spinach for
a while.
yer pal,
ypsi-slim
