Dave Reese

I remember a couple of local ones: First, in downtown Allentown there was a major department store at Ninth and Hamilton Streets. Hess Brothers, and later Hess's had a fantastic restaurant in the basement of the flagship store which featured live fashion shows with models walking between the tables, and kid's meals delivered in toy oven and served to the table from the oven. One of the specialty items was strawberry pie which was more than a meal itself. Kid's were able to get the clown sundae with an ice cream cone hat. I remember standing in line a number of times and even as a kid, 30 minutes was not too long to wait for the special meal. Another favorite in the Lehigh Valley was Shankweilers at the intersection of Old US 22 and PA 100. It was a stately old home with a country look and specialized in the PA Dutch feature of Chicken and Waffles. It now is a branch of a local bank. What a loss. My favorite hobby shop used to be next door, but Don Mohr's Hobbyland is long gone as well. I ate many a meal Howard Johnson's, especially on the PA Turnpike when all the quaint stone rest areas featured HoJo's and my favorite french fried clams. And my favorite as a child when going to any big city was the Automat where I could put my coins in a slot and open the glass door for my sandwich and desert. What a great way to eat when on a school bus trip. There were many more favorite local diners, but they were all similar. The most memorable was when the old Thomas' Diner on Tilghman Street (old 22) in Allentown became the Blue Moon Diner, and had a 57 Chevy mounted on the roof. They brought back the diner specialties of meat loaf, mac and cheese, BLT, real mashed potatoes and real milk shakes. I still miss that one a lot.

Since I no longer have my email signature from Outlook, my daily update of Auto History does not appear with my signature. I thought some might find this interesting: President Woodrow Wilson, a strong supporter of improved roads, purchases Membership Certificate No. 1 in the Lincoln Highway Association

Thanks Fran and Thanks Becky. I will look for the Turquoise trail and Tinkertown between Sante Fe and Albuquerque. Is the KIMO theater in the Old City section of Albuquerque? A quick glance at some photos reminds me of a local theatre that I volunteer for here in Allentown.

I guess there is no way to have someone transcribe the questions and the multiple choice answers to post so we could also take the quiz without the countdown clues of NTN (sorry about the run on stream of consciousness sentence).I never bother to get the console at the local locations, I just play along or help friends who are competing. Good luck to our participants on the Interstate Quiz...

My understanding that is do not attach or copy any possibly copyrighted material. If you can find the item elsewhere on the web, providing a link instead is fine. Hopefully I got that right.

Denny, I didn't even know there were other states, just Ohio and Pennsylvania. Thanks for the web site update which is now on my travel favorites list...

I will be heading to my first ever visit to New Mexico in October since my son will be stationed at Kirkland AFB. I want to do side trips to Sante Fe, as well as visit the Unser Racing Museum and the Albuquerque Balloon Festival while we are there for a week. Any other suggestions will be GREATLY appreciated.