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Edited: There is! You can set how far back to go, a day, a week, two weeks, etc)
Dave
Keep the Show on the Road!
Ok, that sounds good. Just one more question - HOW does one accomplish this resetting???
Hmmm - just found a button at the top right that says "View New Content" - guess that's the new speak for "View New Posts."
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN
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Looks nice - only thing I haven't found, if it still exists, is the "new posts" button. I haven't figured out how to find the new posts!!
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN
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I visited the Lemay collection back in 2001 in conjunction with the Hudson-Essex-Terraplane Club's national meet in Seattle. We toured out in an H-E-T caravan from the hotel to the collection at Lemay's home, I think it was.
I was rather shocked at what we found - all those beautiful cars stored in rickety, wooden sheds, open wiring, no fire protection. The sheds were jammed - and the house (which some of us got a chance to tour) was full of odds and ends and parts.
It's a wonder there was never a fire there to destroy some beautiful examples of Americas cars.
One story I heard about Lemay was that he had an old English double-decker bus and was driven around neighborhoods - from the top deck he could see into peoples back yards and that's how he accumulated some of his collection. I'd like to go back and see the new museum that was built not to long ago.
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN
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Old Orchard Beach had a great amusement park in the 1930's, 40's and into the 50's. There were rides - an old wooden roller coaster, dogem cars and other fun things to do. In the 1930's, maybe back into the 20's, the old pier that stood over the Atlantic Ocean, featured a dance hall that catered to the big bands, such as the Dorsey Brothers, Red Nichols and the Five Pennys and other well known name bands. Many of these big band names played at smaller dance halls along the Maine coast and some inland, even.
Eventually, as time moved on the old amusement park began to deteriorate - people stayed home and watched the new medium, TV and found other amusements. Things got pretty run down. As I remember part of the pier was destroyed in a storm. The old place got pretty seedy.
I was just looking on-line and found that maybe there's life in the old place yet - they have a web site @ http://www.palaceplayland.com/ - so maybe it's still up and running.
There is strong competition not 5 miles away on U S 1 - called Funtown Splashtown. They opened a roller coaster a while back that brought coaster riders from around the world to celebrate the inaguaral run. Reading it's history @ http://tinyurl.com/yc28gz5 (click on "About the park", then click on "history") I see it's been in the area since 1960, when it started as the Marvel Drive In, a drive in restaurant. And it grew from there to what it is today.
I remember spending many hours at the old Palace Playland by the ocean when I was a young 'un with my folks and my sisters. It was always a great event and eagerly anticipated. It was sad to see how it went downhill in the 60's and 70's, but it has been brought back in recent years, I think. Haven't been over there, tho I only lived 15 miles away, in years.
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN
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Dave,
. I even started a minor fad.......I put lights in the wheel wells above the spinners….!!
Dave
Keep the Show on the Road.
When I was stationed at the NAAS in Kingsville, TX, back in 1958, 1959, there was a fellow from California that had a beautiful 1946 or 1947 Lincoln coupe rigged up with spinners and lights in the wheel wells. Was a beautiful sight to see at night.
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN
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Our latest show has been running since November, but it was only finally completed last week as we had model railroad displays in the changing gallery along with the cars through the new year. We finally added the final installation of our Concept and Custom car show, and we have an interesting mix, including one for Alex to drool over...the Hudson Italia. Photos are posted on the America On Wheels page on Facebook, or at my Flickr page at http://www.flickr.com/photos/brooklands/se...57623055295101/ . I am still awaiting my first visitor from this forum to come for a personal tour.
Thanks for the heads up and link, Dave. Surprisingly, came down to brass tacks I'd just as soon have the Pontiac station wagon. I had a Star Chief, two-door hard-top of that era at one time. That thing would go like the hammers of hell. Solid, dependable - the '55 thru '57 Pony's would be on my "like to have" list, right along with a few dozen Hudsons.
The Italia is a good little car - to little to late is all. I've heard at least one person refer to it as Hudsons Edsel. Would be fun to run around in, but not hi on my want list of things I'll probably never get my hands on.
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN
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I wasn't happy with the Photo Illustrated 1925 M-H Nat'l Old Trails/Nat'l Road Guide so I reformatted it. It's more labor intensive due to the amount of time spent transcribing the text from the original guide to the new... But I like the way it looks.
What do youse guys think? Photo Guide p. 20
Steve
Absolutely fantastic Steve.
One of my projects (non-road oriented) is scanning Hudson manuals, bulletins and other material and putting them on-line on my web site ( hetclub.org/burr - right now it's a list, but our club VP is making it into a web site). So, I have a pretty good idea of the work you put into your site. Labor intensive it is - at the moment I'm working on a 1939 Hudson parts book - if I can get 5 pages a day done I feel it's an accomplishment.
Keep up the great work.
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN
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Speaking of Mohawk-Hobbs road guides --- just for the fun of it I went to ask.com and typed in Mohawk-Hobbs tour guides and came up with this link - http://usm.maine.edu/maps/exhibition/9/4/s...howing-the-road
Interesting stuff on there, and ironic, for me, that it's from the University of Maine.
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN
(formerly from Maine)
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Another road trip in the file. You do such a great job writting these reports up, Denny - makes one feel he's in the passenger seat.
Y'all have a safe trip home - and watch out for the snow. Weather up Cincinnati way looks nasty.
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN
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Just read your latest "snowy" road report from the Oklahoma City/Altus area. Let me get this straight - you were happy to get away from Cincinnati because of what???????????????
You were headed for the southwest to get some sun and good weather????
By the way - from the weather reports it looks like more is on the way, tho hopefully more to the north. They're even mentioning possible snow flurries for Memphis.
Off to open my Chrimmas package from my youngest daughter - snow bound in Maine. Love it.
Really!!!
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN
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Politically incorrect or not - MERRY CHRISTMAS, everybody, and HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
I hope Santa brings all of you that GPS unit for our road travels - or maybe a complete collection of Automobile Blue Books or AAA tour guide books.
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN
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I have a 1926 road map (goes along with the 1926 ABB I have) which shows the route from St. Augustine to Jacksonville as part of the Dixie Highway. From Jax west it's the Old Spanish Trail.
Directions in the 1926 ABB are as follows:
(Daytona Beach to Jacksonville), St. Augustine (Mile 68.7) - St. Augustine, King and Bay Streets before bridge > Left on Bay Street > 4-Cor. at old city gates; right with trolley on San Marco Ave. > (Mile 90.5) Bayard, 4 cor, Left across rr > (Mile 107.9) 4-cor at bank; left on St. Johns Ave. > (Mile 108.2) Right hand street; right across toll bridge over St. Johns River > (Mile 109.1) Forsyte Street, at cross-trolley; right > (Mile 109.6) Jacksonville, Forsyth and Main Streets.
Jacksonville to Lake City, Madison, Monticello and Tallahassee (the Old Spanish Trail is shown joining the Florida Short Route from Lake City to Tallahassee).
Leaving Jacksonville > Pavement and sand-clay. A section of the Old Spanish Trail and Dixie Highway. Follows State Highway No. 1. > OST starts at Main and Forsyth Streets > north on Main Street 1 block > (Mile 0.1) Adams Street, left > (Mile 1.1) Myrtle Avenue at end of pavement, right > (Mile 1.4) Enterprise Avenue at trolley, left > and on to Tallahassee and points west.
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN
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Great minds think alike
Bliss: I spent last night at the Seville and am there right now. Great place.
Alex: I started the day's journal with a picture of a 60+61+62 sign cluster.
One thing I've noticed while wandering around parts of Arkansas - the bridges I've found over the White River are quite spectacular. The one outside DeVall's on U. S. 70 (see a picture on my web site @ http://www.freewebs.com/yankeetraveller/ under Arkansas Ramble Part 2) and another on U S 79 a bit to the south (need to get pictures of that one.) I'm not 100% sure but I think they demolished the DeVall's bridge when they by-passed it a little to the north. Got to check that one out.
I'm surprised you didn't stop in New Madrid, Denny. That is famous for the big earthquake back around 1813 (and we're due again) that was felt as far away as Baltimore. There is a great little museum and a couple old houses that are very interesting.
Anyway, safe travels. I'll have to get over to Hardy one of these days and check out that car museum.
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN
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The thing I like about the (Sikeston/Cairo) area is the number of U S highways that converge in the area; 51, 60, 62 (and a little further west 61). And 67 a bit further west over by Poplar Bluff, about 45 miles, as the Ivory Billed Woodpecker flys. Crossing the bridge is Cairo is a "thrilling" experience - especially if there's an 18 wheeler or a Greyhound bus coming the other way!!!
I've driven thru that area a few times and always enjoyed it. It's on the edge of the north/south border, so to speak, but has pretty much the charm and slow paced life like that further to the south. It's not heavily developed - there's not much there to develop, but I'm sure it will be someday.
I've followed U S 51, which passes thru Cairo, between Winona, MS, and Decatur, IL over the years - one of these days I should follow the rest of it.
Safe trip Denny - looking fwd to your daily trip reports.
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN
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A question for you history and social sciences pros: Westgard in Tales of a Pathfinder (1920) says:
Of all the modern methods of communication, telegraph,
telephone, rural delivery of mail, interurban
electric cars, railroad, newspapers and magazines,
the strongest and most potent antidote to ignorance
is the motor car, because it teaches while it gives
pleasure and health, and thus is "easy to take."
Clearly this was reasonable when most people never traveled beyond the county seat. Is it at all true today?
Dave
Keep the Show on the Road?
Maybe it is - along with pleasure and health it also teaches you frustration (along with a whole new language), patience and a few other things.
Certainly there are times when they are not "easy to take"!!!!Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN
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By Motor to the Golden Gate is excellent reading. We take so much for granted with our roads of today - reading books like By Motor, and others of that period, are enlightening to say the least. If you think of the transcontinental road trips of the early 1900's in the context of man going to the moon, you begin to appreciate what those drivers and travelers went thru.
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN
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Old Sturbridge Village for Thanksgiving!!! Now that's a great idea. Actually, I didn't realize they were still operating. It seems to me that it was suggested for a tour at the 2008 Massachusetts National, which was close enough, but was not added because it was thought to be closing it's doors. I'm glad to see that it is still up and operating.
I've also been to the aviation museum at Bradley - a really interesting collection. When I was there they had an HU-16/SA-16 Albatross amphibian. Since I'd been connected to those when I was, briefly, in Coast Guard aviation I got a chance to see it up close and personal and give the museum some information on it.
Glad you had a great trip (and I have also been on parts of U S 6 in New York - but it was a while back).
Safe travels everybody.
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN
Oh, PS - coming back from Texas today I came up I-30 from Texarkana to Little Rock due to bad weather. I-40 was even worse with all the trucks tossing water all over the place, so I dropped over to U S 70. Sad to say the by-pass of the beautiful old bridge in Devalls Bluff is complete. The by-pass almost runs over the old, now abandoned, railroad bridge - tho the top of that sticks up beside the by-pass. You can still get to the old bridge, but I'm not sure if it's even passable - it probably is, but I'll have to check it out someday.
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Little late, but I hope everybody had as great a Thanksgiving as I did. If you don't really have family to share with, good friends will do the trick.
I was invited to Bulverde, TX, to spend Thanksgiving with friends - from my "Hudson" family. We had 15 people for dinner - brothers, sisters, step-mom and dad and two Air Force recruit trainees from Lackland AFB, which is just south of here. These two, Priscilla Revera from New Jersey and Jamie Traver from Michigan are 18 years old and away from home for the 1st time in their lives. They were part of the San Antonio military/civilian "Share the Holiday" program - there were, the girls told me, were 4000 Air Force personel participating. The Army, at Fort Sam Houston, also in San Antonio, also participates. It gives these great young men and women a day away from the rigors of the service and a chance to enjoy a home-like atmosphere. Our hosts, Russel and Vicki, gave their cell phones with loads of free minutes to the girls and they both talked to family for over an hour.
This is one Thanksgiving I'll long remember. I even got to participate in the Christmas opening ceremonies here in Bulverde with the Chiltons - we went downtown and watched the parade with Santa and Mrs. Santa being conveyed in the local fire truck. Bulverde is a very small town - the parade consisted of two local police cars (2 or 3 others were on blockade duty), two fire trucks and the police chief's car!!! It was all of 5 blocks long, if that. Ah, I'd forgotten how great small town celebrations can be.
So, now we move on to the next - here's wishing everyone a VERY HAPPY AND MERRY CHRISTMAS and the absolute best of the upcoming holiday season!! Safe Travels all.
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN
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Back in August we did the family trip down US 41. Summer is long gone, but I have finally finished posting pictures from our trip. They are available through my website, or directly on Webshots.
We had a great time on our trek from Michigan to Florida. We tried pasties in Calumet, Michigan and some kind of local sausage at Congress Pizza in Ishpeming, Michigan. In Wisconsin we stopped for frozen custard multiple times, and my 5-year old got the cheese-head he so craved. In Kenosha where we went for a trolley ride, the kids got honorary police badges from a local officer (very nice of him) and we stopped at an old downtown Walgreen's (don't see too many of them anymore). Pizza from Giordano's in Chicago was quite good. Spent the night at the corner of Wabash and 7th in Terre Haute. Saw a movie being filmed (on US 41) on the Kentucky - Tennessee border (Michael Clark Duncan was there so I'm guessing the movie is "Bailey"). Took an early morning train ride in Nashville. Had lunch at the Dwarf House (Chick-fil-a) on US 41 in Hapeville, Georgia. Saw a bunch of interesting old/abandoned service stations in Georgia. Breakfast in Valdosta was at the small, out of the way but very yummy Dixie Cream Donuts. Finally in Miami just before the end of US 41, we stopped at a little outdoor restaurant counter where my wife got a Cuban sandwich and I had some kind of sausage with fried potatoes. Not exactly sure what it was since the lady at the counter didn't speak English and I don't speak Spanish, but it was tasty. Overall it was an enjoyable trip down 41.
Your comment on the "lady at the counter didn't speak English............." rings a bell. A few years back, before I moved to Memphis, I would go down to Massachusetts and stay a Saturday night with a friend - on Sunday we would head for a Hudson car meet near by that was, at that time, hosted twice a year by some great people. We'd usually stop at a Burger King in Brockton, MA, for breakfast. I always had the #1 sausage-egg-cheese croissant simply because the people working there spoke at least 3 different languages (1 was Spanish - I don't have a clue as to the other two) none of which were English. My friend told me one of the other languages was Cape Verdian, what-ever that was. As I said I ordered the #1 - at least I know Numero Uno!!!! LOL
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN
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I use the "shotgun" method. For example: I took a trip to the San Antonio, TX, area from Memphis. Looking at the map (paper as well as Streets and Trips) I found that U S 79 runs thru Memphis on down across Arkansas and winds up just north of Austin. Close enough for gov'mt work.
Did deviate a little - 79 goes thru Shreveport and then west. So I when I came to 82 I went west to Texarkana, then south on 59 back to 79.
No planning, just climbed in the car and went. Found most of the route pretty much empty of cars, about 50/50 2-lane/4-lane, cruise along about 60/70 - and best of all NO D&*^*(&D 18 wheelers!!!!!!!!!! Well, ok, once or twice maybe.
Only trouble with 79 - great if you like cotton fields (Arkansas) or other crops (Texas) and miles and miles of flat, open road. Did find a very nice bridge across the White River and an interesting, almost like an aqueduct for cars over some wet spot. I'll have to try and get pictures of that next trip.
I've done a number of day trips around here - tracing out U S 51 and U S 61 in the area, going about 50 or 60 miles from Memphis. Again, no real planning - just go and find out what's out there.
That's my method.
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN
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When I lived "down" Maine, as they say, one of our favorite drives, when the leaves turned, was to take Route 99 out of Kennebunk, up thru Acton to Sanbornville, NH. From there we'd drive north on Route 16 to Conway, then west on Route 112 (the Kankamagus Highway) thru the White Mountain National Forest which brought us into Lincoln on U S 3. There was always time for a stop at the famous Clarks Trading Post - back then the attraction was pretty much the trained bears (an excellent show they put on and very informative about the bears).
Sometimes we'd go check on the Old Man of the Mountain, but sadly he fell off his perch overlooking Echo Lake back in 2003.
Usually we'd round out the day driving south on U S 3 to U S 11 then east back to Rochester and U S 202 back to 109 in Sanford and home again.
Nice thing about that area is there are so many different alternatives to choose from. For example you can go north from Lincoln on U S 3, or from Conway on 16, for example and find much to see and enjoy.
It was a long day's travel, but the scenery never ceased to amaze and make the journey interesting. And so many things to see and do along the way.
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN
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Great photos and sounds like a great trip - I have to admit, I've lived in Memphis for over two years now and still havn't gotten to the Stax museum. Visited a lot of other places, like the zoo, the Cotton Museum and other sites - but not even Graceland, tho I have been over to the mess across the street.
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN
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Hi! Glad the forum's back after the site upgrade. I do have a small request, though. The new AmRoad banner at the top of the forum page, at resolutions of 1024x768 and smaller, hides the forum -- you always have to scroll to read anything.
Screen shot of my browser, screen resolution 1024x768:
It would be a lot cleaner if this banner weren't so tall. It would also make the forum more usable, because then scrolling down would not always be the first thing I have to do.
Thanks,
jim
I have my screen set at 1280 x 720 and it's just fine - tho I did reset to 1024 x 768 and see what you mean.
Of course, I'm rather spoiled at the moment - I recently went out and bought, at Best Buy for $150, a nice 20" LCD monitor. BIG difference over my tiny 16" standard monitor - got a lot more desk space now.
Anyway - it is nice to have the forum back. Sort of like Linus's blanket - did anybody have withdrawal symptoms!!!!
Everybody have a nice day - we going for a walk while the rain has stopped.
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN
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I used to sleep in my car at camp grounds - but that gets really. really old when you get past 60 or 65.
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr
Memphis, TN
1920 National Road Scenes
in National Road / U.S. 40
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Neat cards Jim - have to say one of them looks familiar to me.
Dave, in a lot of the old photos of automobiles moving the stretched effect was due to the slower film speeds used back in those days. They also gave, in some cases, an impression that the radiators were leaning fwd with the top out further than the bottom. That may be the case in these photos.
Hudsonly,
Alex Burr