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From the album: US-6 - The Longest Highway
Samuel Clemens, know to us as the writer Mark Twain, and his family lived in the house from 1874 to 1891. The adjacent museum also showcases the author.© © 2012 - Milne Enterprises, Inc.
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From the album: US-6 - The Longest Highway
Dishes Restaurant was closed when I visited Hartford in 2011. Over the years, it operated as Aetna Diner, Hog River Grille, Comet Diner, and Oasis Diner.© © 2012 - Milne Enterprises, Inc.
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From the album: US-6 - The Longest Highway
Ubiquitous in the 1960s, especially in Massachusetts, their home, there are now only 3 Howard Johnsons operating in the United States. -
From the album: US-6 - The Longest Highway
Leaving Cape Cod on US-6. Though the bridge hasn't changed much since it was build in the 1930s, the rotary at the west end was replaced a few years ago by a standard freeway interchange.© © 2012 - Milne Enterprises, Inc.
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Nice map. But all that mileage and Yellostone itself is just a side trip off the main trail! -
From the album: US-6 - The Longest Highway
Sandwich is the hometown of the author of the Peter Cottontail stories, Thornton W. Burgess. He started writing these about 1914, and you can learn more about him and his books at the Thornton W. Burgess Museum here. The museum was opened in this house on an old mill pond, not previously owned by Mr. Burgess, in 1976 by the Thornton W. Burgess Society. Mr. Burgess was still alive in 1962, though he was no longer publishing.© © 2012 - Milne Enterprises, Inc.
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Cape Cod Central Railroad sign at W. Barnstable, MA
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From the album: US-6 - The Longest Highway
Up until 1959, you could take a train from Boston or New York to Hyannis, Massachusetts. There was no year-round passenger service between 1959 and 1986, when Amtrak began running trains again. Even that service has ceased, but tourist day trip service has been available sporadically under different railroad names since. Today the Cape Cod Central Railroad provides both scenic and dinner trains. The same tracks used in 1962 pass cranberry bogs, sand dunes, and historic villages, roughly paralleling US-6.© © 2012 - Milne Enterprises, Inc.
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Wellfleet Drive-In Theatre, Wellfleet, Massachusetts
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From the album: US-6 - The Longest Highway
The Wellfleet Drive-In Theatre has been here since 1957. Though the sound system has been updated, some of the parking spots still have the original Mono speakers for nostalgic listening pleasure. The business has grown over the years, with a four screen movie theater, restaurant, and mini-golf. I love miniature golf and even owned a portable mini-golf business once. This course is a 1961 vintage 18-hole course with the original obstacles, so how could I resist!© © 2012 - Milne Enterprises, Inc.
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From the album: US-6 - The Longest Highway
No, you're eyes do not deceive you. US-6 sports some of these signs that you are more used to seeing along US-66. This one is at the beginning of the highway, outside of Provincetown, Massachusetts.© © 2012 - Milne Enterprises, Inc.
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Jacksonville Kennel Club site, Jacksonville FL
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From the album: US-23 - From Sea To Inland Sea
Last photo from our trip down US-23: the next time I post it will be from my next roadtrip, along US-6! The former Jacksonville Kennel Club building is now used by the school system. No more greyhound racing here.© © 2011 - Milne Enterprises, Inc.
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Nice modern update of old style sign. I hope to make it back out to Yellowstone this year; it would be my 4th time. -
From the album: US-23 - From Sea To Inland Sea
It's Day 20 and the end of the trip. We've traveled over 1400 miles down US-23 from Mackinaw City, Michigan. Perhaps I should take the bus back home from Jacksonville, Florida?© Copyright © 2011 - Milne Enterprises, Inc.
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Ultimate Automotive Motion Picture
roadtrip62 replied to knightfan26917's topic in General Discussion
How about the freeways of Los Angeles, as featured on CHiPs? -
From the album: US-23 - From Sea To Inland Sea
The highlight of Day 19 on the road were the Okefenokee Swamp Park and the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge near Waycross, Georgia.© Copyright © 2011 - Milne Enterprises, Inc.
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From the album: US-23 - From Sea To Inland Sea
Also on Day 18, at Macon, Georgia we stop at Ocmulgee National Monument. Like the Hopewell Culture National Historical Park we saw back in Chillicothe, Ohio, Ocmulgee shows monuments and artifacts of prehistoric human life in North America and the park was here in 1962.© Photo by Visiblyannoyed, from Wikimedia Comons, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported
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From the album: US-23 - From Sea To Inland Sea
Today we travel through mid-Georgia, where you can find plenty of Waffle House Restaurants.© public domain, by Bravo Six Niner Delta (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bravosixninerdelta/), from Flickr
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Car Thoughts, Party, Radio & 2012 Road Trip
roadtrip62 replied to knightfan26917's topic in Trip Planning
Glad to hear you're driving again. Thanks for the Muppet clip; I love those guys. -
From the album: US-23 - From Sea To Inland Sea
On Day 17 we saw the last waterfalls of the trip, at Indian Springs State Park and High Falls State Park, outside of Jackson.© photo © 2011 - Milne Enterprises, Inc.
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From the album: US-23 - From Sea To Inland Sea
Atlanta's Cyclorama relates the 1864 Battle of Atlanta in this beautiful marble and granite building designed by noted Atlanta architect John Francis Downing. The battle is told in a painting created by William Wehler's American Panorama Company studio of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Sorry I neglected to take a good photo when Roadtrip-'62 visited Atlanta.© (public domain photo by SCEhardt, from Wikimedia Commons)
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U. S. 40 at the Cumberland Narrows
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Thanks for the nice collection of postcards. This one's interesting highway alignment particularly grabbed me. -
Thanks for checking out my site, and the kind words. I've always lived in Michigan but for the past 12 years I've vacationed in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina each spring. I too have driven nearly every mile of US-23 and that's what influenced me to make that my first virtual roadtrip.
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Tallulah Point gift shop, Tallulah Falls, Georgia
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From the album: US-23 - From Sea To Inland Sea
On Day 15, we stopped at the Tallulah Point gift shop, Tallulah Falls, Georgia. It's one of the last of the old style tourist traps. Grabbed a pop in a glass bottle and popped the cap off on the bottle opener, just like 1962!© © 2011 - Milne Enterprises, Inc.
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Clyde's Restaruant, Waynesville, North Carolina
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From the album: US-23 - From Sea To Inland Sea
Passing through Waynesville on Day 14, we also crossed the Blue Ridge Parkway on our way to Franklin.© © 2011 - Milne Enterprises, Inc.
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Love that old brick grocery store. It looks like it's had several different layers of signs over the years.
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I figured out how to post photos some time ago, but haven't figured out how to do a "post". Any help, please?
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Once a sub-forum (such as Dixie Highway) is selected, there is a "Start New Topic" button.
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