Greetings From The Lincoln Highway
Subtitle: America's First Coast-to Coast Road
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Published: May 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780811701280
Subjects: Area / regional studies; Travel - United States; History; History: American; USA; United States; General; United States - General; Automobile travel; Description and travel; Lincoln Highway
First sentence: In May 1911, Henry Joy, president of Packard Motor Car Company, drove west from Detroit in a new automobile.
Description: The Lincoln Highway preceded Route 66 by a dozen years, runs a third longer than the famed highway, and crosses the country from Atlantic to Pacific. Traversing fourteen states from Times Square in New York to Lincoln Park in San Francisco, this large-format book follows the highway in both space and time to diners, gas stations, ice cream stands, tourist cabins, historic landmarks, and roadside attractions. Excerpts from memoirs and old postcards give a feel for what early motoring was really likethe good, the bad, and the muddy.