Showing posts with label Lincoln Highway. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lincoln Highway. Show all posts
Saturday, April 04, 2026
Friday, January 09, 2026
America's First Radio Tour departs from Detroit, in 1922, heading to the Pacific with Rickenbacker Six cars on the Lincoln Highway, but only 2 photos of that tour seem to exist online
along with a 200-foot loop antenna on the roof, a sign points out that TECLA was providing the radio, they claimed their receiver was able to pick up all American and Ship Stations from New York to Los Angeles.
Rickenbacker automobiles equipped with radio receivers drove across the country, showcasing both the reliability of the cars and the emerging technology of radio broadcasting, though only 20 radio stations broadcast at that time
the best Tecla receiver was installed in the cars, it was the first car radio made for use on automobiles in motion and was available prior to 1922.
It had three stages of radio frequency amplification, three stages of audio frequency amplification, a special tuner for aerial and ground, and a special loop to be used for reception without ground when the automobile was moving.
Two Rickenbackers with advanced motors that minimized vibration were selected for the 2800 mile expedition over a 40-day journey from between June 1 and July 10, 1922.
Where possible, the cars stopped at noon and again every evening to give concerts for the onlookers. This was the first time a radio equipped vehicle crossed the continent and thousands of people were exposed to the experience of broadcast radio for the first time.
Where possible, the cars stopped at noon and again every evening to give concerts for the onlookers. This was the first time a radio equipped vehicle crossed the continent and thousands of people were exposed to the experience of broadcast radio for the first time.
Newspapers, especially the San Francisco Chronicle, carried headlines that let people know when the cars were in their city and advertised the event. America's "ace of aces" Eddie Rickenbacker was on hand in Detroit to see the cars off.
Detroit businessmen and radio operators Wallace Blood and William Heinz and their wives were selected to be in charge.
Above they've reached Utah
Below, they were at the orphan's home in Boyle Heights LA
On July 10th in San Francisco Mrs Blood was quoted: "Every night we would tune in, no matter where we were along the Lincoln Highway. One night, when we were nearing Omaha, we listened to Eddie Cantor and Fanny Brice, who are with the Follies in New York. We had a vaudeville star for an entertainer nearly every evening."
While in Nevada alone they stopped in Ely, Eureka, Austin, and Carson City.
Monday, April 22, 2024
The Museum of American Speed will embark on a "Sea to Sea in a Model T" road trip on the Lincoln Highway from New York to San Francisco in a 1924 Ford Model T on June 4th to mark the 100th anniversary
The ten-millionth Ford Car left the Highland Park factories of The Ford Motor Company on June 4th, 1924
Frank Kulick, who attained fame and broke many records as the pilot of Ford racing cars, was at the wheel during the trans-continental trip on the Lincoln Highway from New York to San Francisco,
and a recreation of that same vehicle is on display at the Museum of American Speed after it was donated by the family of the late Dr. Hathaway, who made the same exact trip a total of two times – to mark 50 years since Ford’s own road trip, as well as 75 years.
“Our team is excited to be part of a third trip in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the ten-millionth Model T Ford,” said Tim Matthews curator of the Museum of American Speed.
“The Model T Ford changed the world’s landscape and way of life forever. We are excited to take this 100 year old car out of its Museum display and prove it can make this monumental voyage once again.”
Sunday, April 18, 2021
A load of Barney Oldfield tires, because to have a dependable tire, depends on how many spare tires you have
Jacky Wilkens and Otto Freidenshon, together known as The Tire Guys shown here just one day before they took off on their new Lincoln Highway adventure.
Saturday, March 21, 2020
Roadside attraction I'd never heard of until now, the Como Bluff Fossil Cabin on the Lincoln highway, in Medicine Bow Wyoming, built in 1932
Though built in 1932, the Fossil Cabin near the dinosaur graveyard at Como Bluff is, in a way, the oldest building in the world: the walls of the building were built out of 5,796 mortared-together dinosaur bones, dug from nearby areas.
Initially, the building was part of a gasoline filling station along US 30 by Thomas Boylan, who had been collecting bones for 17 years, with the intention of creating sculptures in front of his home and the gas station.
The cabin is widely recognized as the only building constructed of fossilized dinosaur bones in the United States
https://www.wyohistory.org/encyclopedia/fossil-cabin
https://www.zmescience.com/other/offbeat-other/dinosaur-cabin-wyoming/
Wednesday, August 14, 2019
This week, the Military Vehicle Preservation Association will depart from York, Pa., and again head out on the Lincoln Highway for San Francisco.
There’s another commemoration of that 1919 transcontinental drive happening Aug. 31-Sept. 16, organized by the Lincoln Highway Association
https://www.post-gazette.com/life/travel/2019/08/12/Military-Vehicle-Preservation-Army-transcontinental-convoy-Lincoln-Highway/stories/201907310229
Sunday, August 11, 2019
Tuesday, March 05, 2019
I think I posted this before, but can't find anything about it... so, better to be safe and post it than to wonder, and fail to get it on the blog. Boy Scouts taking the Lincoln Highway in a modern day covered wagon
some years ago I remember posting about the Lincoln Highway, but didn't know it was Scouts that put up mile and highway markers along the 4000 miles of the Lincoln Highway. Try and pull that event off today. Lawyers would shut you down in an instant, liberals would be hot on their heels to get the kids taken away by CPS from their parents, and politicians would try and claim credit for the accomplishment.
So, here, in the above photo, is the 1928 New York City to San Franscisco 3389 Miles in 34 Days trek.
https://boyslife.org/wayback/#issue=Nz9okUT9dVMC&pg=25
click through to see the entire itinerary, but here's a sample
http://www.lincoln-highway-museum.org/BSA-1928/BSA-Index.html?fbclid=IwAR10MDo7c7D4-KM8MxiDBfCVSKTaiLqrhwv9W_uTtahwRyXjUtDW08Kc77o
And the last of those scouts? Lived to 102!
He was the last living member of that seven-person expedition.
https://blog.scoutingmagazine.org/2014/12/08/bernard-queneau/
but I find it as amazing that in 1914 a Boy Scout troop hiked with a wagon of supplies from Minnesota to San Fransisco
that I posted about 3 years ago http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2016/01/1914-kids-were-made-of-tough-pioneer.html
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