Showing posts with label Lincoln Highway. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lincoln Highway. Show all posts
Saturday, April 04, 2026

to publicize the newly established Lincoln Highway, the YMCA of Sacramento sponsored Amanda Preuss and a 1916 Olds Roadster in her drive from San Fran to Times Square in Aug, 1916

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https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=26343954718607057&set=pcb.10162633132387481
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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

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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 ...
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

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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 ...
Sunday, April 18, 2021

A load of Barney Oldfield tires, because to have a dependable tire, depends on how many spare tires you have

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Jacky Wilkens and Otto Freidenshon, together known as The Tire Guys shown here just one day before they took off on their new Lincoln Highwa...
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

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Though built in 1932, the Fossil Cabin near the dinosaur graveyard at Como Bluff is, in a way, the oldest building in the world: th...
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.

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There’s another commemoration of that 1919 transcontinental drive happening Aug. 31-Sept. 16, organized by the Lincoln Highway Associati...
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Sunday, August 11, 2019

The Lincoln Highway Association archive in the University of Michigan's Transportation Library is approximately 3,000 images of construction, towns and cities, markers, bridges, cars, camp sites, scenic views, and the 1928 logbook of Lincoln Highway markers made by local Boy Scouts

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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/linchigh
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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

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some years ago I remember posting about the Lincoln Highway, but didn't know it was Scouts that put up mile and highway markers alon...