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Where????????

 

 

 

Hudsonly,

 

Alex B

 

 

 

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> I posted some pictures of the 1842 milestones on the

 

> Maumee & Western

 

> Reserve Turnpike, between Perrysburg and Fremont OH,

 

> later US 20

 

> at www.RoadsideUSA,info

 

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> ypsi-slim

 

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Ok, but at that URL there's a little box at the top

 

that says "Coming Soon! and in the box

 

www.roasideusa.com

 

 

 

Hudsonly,

 

Alex B

 

 

 

--- "Russell S. Rein" <Ypsi-slim@juno.com> wrote:

 

> That corrected URL is www.RoadsideUSA.com

 

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AH HA!!!!!!!!

 

 

 

Hudsonly,

 

Alex B

 

 

 

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> I'm losing it.........the correct URL is:

 

> www.RoadsideUSA.info

 

>

 

> Regards,

 

>

 

> ypsi-slim

 

>

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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> Yuck, I hate the new look. Can we rebel?

 

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to you the same way the (now former) Oldies station in Indy did after

 

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Guest jim conkle

Good morning,

 

 

 

Just to let you know that the host hotel for this years event in Albuquerque

 

already has over 70 reservations out of a room count of 188. Another one of

 

the hotels is over 50% booked. So the rooms are going fast.

 

 

 

We will be putting more information up on the web site but if anyone needs a

 

question answered please let us know. We look forward to seeing all of you

 

in June.

 

 

 

www.2006route66festival.com

 

 

 

Thanks

 

 

 

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Guest R. Droz

One that comes to mind immediately is "Superslab", a disparaging

 

nickname for the concrete Interstate behemoth that replaced US 66.

 

 

 

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How about 460 air conditioning ? Drive down the road with all 4 windows

 

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Then there's the "trucker's tan". Just on the driver's

 

left arm as he/she stuck it out the window while driving.

 

No AC here either...lol.

 

 

 

 

 

Matt Smallwood

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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In a message dated 4/14/06 10:31:43 AM Central Daylight Time,

 

mwolfson@bright.net writes:

 

 

 

 

 

> If anyone can think of anything please let me know. My editors would

 

> > like about 30 and as of now I have about 2, so any help would be greatly

 

> > appreciated. Thank you.

 

>

 

 

 

Not that this term would be used in OK. Snow Trucks that clear off the

 

streets are known as 'salt shakers'

 

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Guest R. Droz

How about -

 

 

 

Rubbernecking or Gawker's Block? When a highway slows down due to people

 

watching something going on next to the road, like the aftermath of an

 

accident.

 

 

 

Ghost Ramps - ramps that seem to connect to nothing, due to unfinished

 

constrution or later interchange revisions

 

 

 

Evel Knievel Ramps - a subset of Ghost ramps that involves unfinished

 

bridges that resemble the method the famous daredevil used to launch

 

himself into the air.

 

 

 

Lot Lizards - Protitutes who work truck stops and specialize in

 

truckers. (It's racy, maybe too much so for the magazine)

 

 

 

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Guest Bob Reynolds

There are plenty of references to Lee highway in Tennessee. It

 

followed US 11W from Bristol to Knoxville, then 11 to Chattanooga,

 

then US 72 to Memphis. I think it followed US 70 into Arkansas and

 

Oklahoma, but I lose the thread there. Just west of Knoxville Lee

 

highway split from the Tennessee connector of the Dixie Highway at the

 

teensy town of Dixie-Lee Junction.

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In a message dated 5/25/2005 10:06:10 PM Central Daylight Time,

 

denny@dennygibson.com writes:

 

 

 

 

 

> A nice bit of well deserved PR.

 

 

 

Thank you, Denny. The guys from the AAA were great and we had a nice

 

visit. I'm envious of their job!

 

>

 

> Hey, someday I might even get there when you're open:-)

 

 

 

The next time you point your car in this direction, just let me know you're

 

on the way and I promise I'll be open and ready to meet you, greet you, and

 

give you a guided tour of the mess.

 

 

 

Laurel

 

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<< Let's see who has the eagle eye. >>

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I see it! Just below the Editor's Ramble. Page 4 in the Spring 2005

 

issue.

 

 

 

Laurel

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In a message dated 5/26/2005 8:52:04 AM Central Daylight Time,

 

hester_nec@yahoo.com writes:

 

 

 

 

 

> HA - got in 4 min ahead of Laurel. LOL

 

>

 

 

 

Yeah, you beat me. I guess that means you get the big check and the basket

 

of valuable prizes, and I get nothing. :-( LOL!

 

 

 

Laurel

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Guest Denny Gibson

I finally got to your finale and see your end game included two of my

 

favorite south Indiana towns, Columbus & Madison.

 

 

 

I also visited your Dixie Highway albums and had my curiosity tickled by the

 

pictures of the Lexington "Starting Point" monument (s6450, DH-East, 27/30).

 

Where is this located (street address)? Do you have any other info on the

 

monument? In particular, why a camel?

 

 

 

Oh, by the way, now that I've quizzed you, nice pics.

 

 

 

--Denny

 

 

 

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> Subject: [AMERICAN_ROAD] Duluth trip--Finale

 

>

 

>

 

> All good things have to come to an end, but that doesn't mean we

 

> couldn't find neat stuff on the way home. The pictures are still at

 

> http://community.webshots.com/user/babyboomerbob but I had to make a

 

> second folder. The first one was full:)

 

>

 

> We made one final stop in the Duluth area before heading out--

 

> Wisconsin Point. This bar, along with Minnesota Point forms the

 

> barrier between Lake Superior and Duluth/Superior Harbor. The sign

 

> tells it better than I could <Wisconsin Point 01>. What we came to

 

> see here was the Wisconsin Point Light. While most of the shipping

 

> traffic passes through the canal across Minnesota Point, there is

 

> still significant traffic through this natural pass, especially to

 

> the docks at Superior <Wisconsin Point 02>.

 

>

 

> We followed US 53 down to Eau Claire, then back on the

 

> interstate. We made a stop at Castle Rock, a nice rock formation

 

> near New Lisbon <Castle Rock 01-03>. While I was jockying for a

 

> good photo position, we stumbled on this interesting old piece of

 

> road <Castle Rock 04>. Now, it certainly looks like a piece of old

 

> alignment, but what of? The closest numbered highway is US 12, on

 

> the other side of the interstate. That's the most likely candidate

 

> IMHO. Oh well, it was a fun road anyway:)

 

>

 

> The next day, I went out of my way to drive to Braidwood, IL so

 

> we could eat at the Polk-A-Dot Drive In <Polk-A-Dot Drive In 01-

 

> 03>. My timing was a bit off, though, and we got there an hour or

 

> so too early for lunch:) So we tooled up the Mother Road to Joliet.

 

> Now, while I always preach that there are lots of other cool

 

> highways out there, there's still no doubt that Route 66 really *is*

 

> something special. Something about the character and history. We

 

> drove around Joliet for a bit, then parked so I could get some

 

> pictures. As I stood at a corner, I saw these two signs, one

 

> straight ahead, the other off to the right <Joliet 01, 02>. That's

 

> when I realized I was at a very special corner. Where

 

> Route 66 crosses the Lincoln Highway. (Actually, one of four

 

> intersections, since both highways are on one way streets through

 

> town. But I digress:))

 

>

 

> On the way back to Braidwood I stopped to get a picture of the

 

> Gemini Giant at the Launching Pad <Gemini Giant>. Let's face it,

 

> it's a must:)

 

>

 

> Finally back at Braidwood and lunch at the Polk-a-Dot! It was

 

> every bit as good and fun as everyone says. There was one

 

> embarrassing moment for me, though. I neglected to ask if they took

 

> a credit card. I had to trot down the road and go to an ATM, or I

 

> might have wound up washing dishes for a couple of hours:) While we

 

> were there, I found out that the state of Illinois has a Route 66

 

> specialty licence plate <Polk-A-Dot Drive In 04>.

 

>

 

> We spent that night at Columbus, IN. The last morning of our

 

> trip we decided to forego the interstate a while and head down IN 7

 

> to Madison. It was a peaceful sunday morning with little traffic.

 

> Much nicer than dealing with interstate traffic in Louisville:) We

 

> picked up US 421 in Madison and crossed the Ohio on a nice, two lane

 

> truss bridge <Madison Bridge 01, 02>. A pleasant run through

 

> valleys and gentle hills to Frankfurt, then back on the interstate

 

> and home.

 

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An article in the May 11th Chicago Tribune by Charles Duhigg

 

detailed a fairly new radio station broadcasting in central Arizona

 

that appears to be a throwback to those great days of early, non-

 

market-researched FM radio. It is KCDX-FM at 103.1 broadcasting out

 

of Florence, Arizona and on the web.

 

 

 

I haven't heard it, but the article makes me want to listen to it

 

while driving through Arizona this September. The article says they

 

play songs by Huey Lewis to The Buoys. One listener wrote, "If you

 

need donations. contact me, please."

 

 

 

Ted Tucker, the owner, who goes by the name "Guru", says he went

 

with the eclectic format as he had to broadcast something or lose

 

his license. He uploaded his personal library. He does own other

 

radio stations that are programmed by consultants. He spends

 

$200,000 a year so he can listen to the music he loves.

 

 

 

A sample playlist from last night:

 

11:37 Sunny Side of Heaven- Fleetwood Mac

 

11:40 Hollywood Nights- Bob Seger

 

11:45 Citadel- Rolling Stones

 

11:48 You Keep Me Hanging On- Vanilla Fudge (evidently, the short

 

version)

 

11:51 Isn't It Time- Babys

 

 

 

You can listen on the web at: www.kcdx.com

 

 

 

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Lee Highway, eh? This should be a trivia question, but I need to satisfy my

 

own curiosity. Can anyone on this list tell me where one can find the Lee

 

Highway marker in every issue of AMERICAN ROAD? Yep, there's one in

 

there. It's been running issue after issue for quite some time.

 

 

 

Let's see who has the eagle eye.

 

 

 

Thomas

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Guest Alex Burr

Is it the one in the collage at the bottom of the

 

Editors Ramble - the one with the Yellowstone, Dixie

 

Highway, U S 101, etc, signs??

 

 

 

Happy traveling.

 

 

 

Hudsonly,

 

Alex B

 

 

 

--- mockturtlepress <americanroad@mockturtlepress.com>

 

wrote:

 

> Lee Highway, eh? This should be a trivia question,

 

> but I need to satisfy my

 

> own curiosity. Can anyone on this list tell me where

 

> one can find the Lee

 

> Highway marker in every issue of AMERICAN ROAD? Yep,

 

> there's one in

 

> there. It's been running issue after issue for quite

 

> some time.

 

>

 

> Let's see who has the eagle eye.

 

>

 

> Thomas

 

>

 

>

 

>

 

 

 

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HA - got in 4 min ahead of Laurel. LOL

 

 

 

Happy Travels.

 

 

 

Hudsonly,

 

Alex B

 

 

 

--- laurelrk66@aol.com wrote:

 

> << Let's see who has the eagle eye. >>

 

>

 

>

 

>

 

> I see it! Just below the Editor's Ramble. Page 4

 

> in the Spring 2005

 

> issue.

 

>

 

> Laurel

 

>

 

>

 

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Guest Albert Pratts

Nice. That's why I love satellite radio. I been using Sirius since 2004

 

and would never go back to the dial.

 

 

 

http://www.sirius.com/servlet/ContentServe...e&c=Channel

 

Lineup&cid=1139320914821

 

 

 

Albert

 

 

 

roaddog_rt66 wrote:

 

> An article in the May 11th Chicago Tribune by Charles Duhigg

 

> detailed a fairly new radio station broadcasting in central Arizona

 

> that appears to be a throwback to those great days of early, non-

 

> market-researched FM radio. It is KCDX-FM at 103.1 broadcasting out

 

> of Florence, Arizona and on the web.

 

>

 

> I haven't heard it, but the article makes me want to listen to it

 

> while driving through Arizona this September. The article says they

 

> play songs by Huey Lewis to The Buoys. One listener wrote, "If you

 

> need donations. contact me, please."

 

>

 

> Ted Tucker, the owner, who goes by the name "Guru", says he went

 

> with the eclectic format as he had to broadcast something or lose

 

> his license. He uploaded his personal library. He does own other

 

> radio stations that are programmed by consultants. He spends

 

> $200,000 a year so he can listen to the music he loves.

 

>

 

> A sample playlist from last night:

 

> 11:37 Sunny Side of Heaven- Fleetwood Mac

 

> 11:40 Hollywood Nights- Bob Seger

 

> 11:45 Citadel- Rolling Stones

 

> 11:48 You Keep Me Hanging On- Vanilla Fudge (evidently, the short

 

> version)

 

> 11:51 Isn't It Time- Babys

 

>

 

> You can listen on the web at: www.kcdx.com

 

>

 

> For the article:

 

> http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-

 

> 0605110140may11,1,1855645.story

 

>

 

>

 

>

 

>

 

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The L.A. Times actually ran an article about KCDX two weeks ago...and there's

 

another connection to this list...I was interviewed and mentioned in the

 

article for having stumbled upon and then trying to track down the station while

 

on one of my road trips. :)

 

 

 

It actually was much more eclectic three years ago, when I first ran across

 

it...

 

 

 

<<An article in the May 11th Chicago Tribune by Charles Duhigg

 

 

 

detailed a fairly new radio station broadcasting in central Arizona

 

 

 

that appears to be a throwback to those great days of early, non-

 

 

 

market-researched FM radio. It is KCDX-FM at 103.1 broadcasting out

 

 

 

of Florence, Arizona and on the web.>>

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Guest Alex Burr

Thank Parsa,

 

 

 

Your URL link, Photo's Along the Lee Highway,

 

enabled me to follow it from DC to the Imperial

 

Valley.

 

 

 

Looks to me like U S 29 out of Washington DC, to U S

 

11 to Chattanooga, then U S 72 to Huntsville, AL,

 

probably thru Corinth and U S 45 to 64 then to Memphis

 

where it picked up 70 west to the Imperial Valley -

 

tho I didn't follow the road maps beyond Arizona.

 

 

 

I loved the old picture of the White River Bridge in

 

De Val, Arkansas - I've crossed over that bridge

 

several times over the years. Most recently a year or

 

two back. At that time they were working on a by-pass

 

a bit to the north of the old bridge - it appeared

 

they were using the old railroad right of way for the

 

by-pass. I have a photo of it on the American Road

 

egroup (

 

http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/AMERICAN_ROAD/ )

 

- click on Photos, then U S 64, then U S 70 folder.

 

 

 

Thanks for the info.

 

 

 

Happy Traveling.

 

 

 

Hudsonly,

 

Alex B

 

 

 

--- parsa9 <parsa9@yahoo.com> wrote:

 

> Yes, thank you. I saw that one recently. There are a

 

> couple good sites on the Old Spanish

 

> Trail (the highway, not the actual horse trail from

 

> Santa Fe to L.A.), as well as a bit of

 

> information on other roads.

 

>

 

> Drive the Old Spanish Trail

 

> http://www.drivetheost.com/

 

>

 

> Old Spanish Trail Centennial

 

> http://www.oldspanishtrailcentennial.com/

 

> (excellent scans of travel pamphlets!)

 

>

 

> Jefferson Davis Memorial and National Highways

 

> http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/jdavis.htm

 

>

 

> Lee Highway Milestones

 

> http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/zerogal.htm

 

>

 

> Photos: Along Lee Highway

 

> http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/johngal2.htm

 

>

 

> Dixie Overland Highway and many other named San

 

> Diego trails:

 

> http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/us80.htm

 

>

 

>

 

> Another, much older named trail was the Southern

 

> National Highway (1913) for which the

 

> plank road in the desert was built.

 

>

 

> the Atlantic-Pacific Highway also had a branch

 

> terminus in San Diego.

 

>

 

> One man was involved with a lot of these roads. He

 

> was the president of a couple of them:

 

> Colonel Ed Fletcher. He did a promotional trip on

 

> the Dixie Overland and the Old Spanish

 

> Trail himself. He was also a Lee Highway president.

 

>

 

> Parsa

 

>

 

>

 

> --- In AMERICAN_ROAD@yahoogroups.com, Jill

 

> Livingston <jandk@l...> wrote:

 

> > Here is a link to an article about the Jeff Davis

 

> Hwy. Not what you'd call

 

> > a primary source but may be of some interest

 

> nevertheless.

 

> >

 

> > http://www.livinggoldpress.com/jeffdavis.htm

 

> >

 

> >

 

> >

 

> > >I've been looking into a bit of online road

 

> history about private

 

> > >interstate auto trails here

 

> > >in San Diego. It seems that a lot of auto trails

 

> had their terminus in San

 

> > >Diego. Perhaps

 

> > >even more than LA. Some of these are kind of

 

> obscure, and most of them

 

> > >seem to have

 

> > >used the same roadway in California. It's the

 

> road that became US Highway

 

> > >80 (now the

 

> > >path of I-8).

 

> > >

 

> > >Some roads that are reported to go to (or

 

> through) San Diego and that has

 

> > >associations

 

> > >are:

 

> > >

 

> > >Bankhead Highway (from Washington, DC)

 

> > >Broadway of America (from Washington, DC)

 

> > >Jefferson Davis National Highway (from

 

> Washington, DC)

 

> > >Old Spanish Trail (from St. Augustine, FL)

 

> > >Lone Star Trail (from St. Augustine to Santa Ana

 

> via San Diego)

 

> > >Lee Highway (from New York to San Francisco via

 

> San Diego)

 

> > >Dixie Overland Highway (from Savannah, GA)

 

> > >Borderland Highway (no information)

 

> > >Trail to Sunset (no information)

 

> > >Ocean to Ocean Highway (supposedly not the same

 

> as Pikes Peak Ocean to

 

> > >Ocean that

 

> > >went to L.A., no information)

 

> > >Pacific Highway (which became US101 in San

 

> Diego).

 

> > >

 

> > >There is a zero milestone for the Old Spanish

 

> Trail, and a plaque for the

 

> > >Jefferson Davis

 

> > >National Highway terminus downtown in Horton

 

> Plaza. US highway 80 took on

 

> > >the name

 

> > >Broadway of America.

 

>

 

>

 

>

 

 

 

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Guest Mike Ward

Steve,

 

 

 

I have a 1925 Rand McNally Road Atlas that does show the Lee Highway and its

 

pole marker. Allowing for the fact that road maps of 80 years ago were not all

 

that detailed, it's relatively easy to follow it across the country. If you'd

 

like to me scan and e-mail you the pages that show it let me know. I've also

 

got a few other old map/guide sources that I didn't have time to research last

 

night but I can dig into them this weekend if you're interested.

 

 

 

Mike

 

----- Original Message -----

 

From: parsa9<mailto:parsa9@yahoo.com>

 

To: <mailto:AMERICAN_ROAD@yahoogroups.com>

 

Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 7:13 PM

 

Subject: [AMERICAN_ROAD] Lee Highway

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Does anyone know anything on the Lee Highway?

 

 

 

I know there's a popular Bluegrass song about it.

 

 

 

I also know that it went from New York to San Diego and then up to San

 

Francisco via the

 

Pacific Highway (or El Camino Real).

 

 

 

 

 

I can't find any image of a highway marker, pole sign, or anything else. Does

 

anyone have a

 

auto trail guide, strip maps, or one of the old Auto Trails and Commerce

 

guides with

 

symbols?

 

 

 

Parsa

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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