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"Eisenhowers transcontinental highway should merit a stamp. It sure made travel easier. "
That is true, but the US Interstate Highway System played a big roll in bankrupting the railroads.
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I was more curious about the Lincoln Highway than the one that replaces it in the 1930's. The Lincoln Highway was actually set up in the early 1920s and to me seems much more interesting since it was just a series of interconnected dirt roads. If memory of the video I saw serves me correctly Eisenhower traveled the Lincoln highway in about 1919, realized how much work it needed and decided to start the new system later when he became president. I think it was in the 1930s when a lot of the older system was paved and upgraded to a certain degree - definitely deserves a series of stamps!
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Wow you have paved roads, wish we had them in Canada.
Only kidding, our major potholes highways are paved but wish we had some decent UK style motorways with proper rest stops.
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When I was a teenager--quite a long time ago, in 1962--I arrived from Cuba under the auspices of the Cuban Children Program run by Catholic Charities at that time. Most of those Cuban children (about 14,000) were sent all over the USA to foster homes, care centers, orphanages, boarding schools, etc. I was fortunate to be sent to Schererville, Indiana, to a place called Hoosier Boys Town. It was located a couple of blocks from Old Lincoln Road, US 30. It was a busy road, connecting many communities in the Region. There was a race car track called Illiana Motorway, I think, in Hobart, not far from HBT. We could hear the rumble of the racing cars on Sunday. There was a radio jingle: "Drag Racing!!! Sunday! Sunday! at the beautiful US 30 Drag Strip", and take 2,"Sunday! Sunday! Sunday! Smoking US 30 Drag strip" The announcer, Larry Lujak, from WLS Chicago Radio station. A classic.
Yes: I agree that the Roadways of the USA should have a postage stamp series! And Old Lincoln Road, US Highway 30, the Indiana section of that road should be featured...
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Researching this topic I found this:
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Hi Harvey:
There may not be a commemorative stamp for the Lincoln Highway, but you can find some commemorative postmarks if you would key in "Lincoln Highway" as a search term for U.S. covers on eBay. I lived in Denison, Iowa, as a teenager and it was on the Lincoln Highway. Here is a cover (not mine, from eBay) commemorating the road:
You can do the same for Route 66 and turn up several examples.
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The Lincoln Highway was a big deal in northern Indiana.
Here is a great postcard view from west of South Bend, Indiana. It's an extraordinarily detailed scene. If you scroll down in the description, you'll see several links to close-up views of the postcard details. It's one of the clearest real photo postcards I've ever worked with.
https://flic.kr/p/8UH5Rm
Tom
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Superb posts:
postcard from South Bend, Indiana
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Lincoln Hwy Postmarks
Now, how can we get the ball rolling in order to have the USPS create a series of postage stamps commemorating Old Lincoln Rd. US 30, Route 66, and the Federal Highway System?
thanks
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I hadn't really thought about it before, but the Lincoln Highway runs a few miles from my home, the leg that goes from Philadelphia to Lancaster, PA.
The surviving structure in my town is the Ship Inn. It was built in the late 1700s and was a stage coach stop and Inn through the 1850s. It's a restaurant today.
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Beautiful structure.
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They don't build 'em like that anymore.
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The Lincoln Highway went through my home town of Marshalltown, Iowa, where I was born and educated, through college. In 1976, my employer sent me to computer mainframe training in the Philadelphia suburbs, and I remember seeing the Lincoln Highway on the Philadelphia Main Line, familiar signs reminding me of home so far away.
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Lincoln Highway played a major role in the transportation history of the US. It was due to new highways like this, in conjunction with the development of cheaper cars, that allowed the US to grow into rural areas.
These transportation technologies also gave birth to incredible economic growth in the form of Motor Courts, restaurants, gas stations and tourist attractions.
Since I am a collector of 'smallest post office' postal history, I cannot let this thread go by without mentioning 'Bill's Place'. William 'Bill' Wakefield was owner of a restaurant in the Blue Ridge Mountains of central Pennsylvania called Bill’s Place. In a marketing stroke of genius, Bill added and opened a small post office on May 22, 1935. Advertised with billboards along the Lincoln Highway as the "Smallest Post Office in the U.S.", many travelers stopped in for a meal and a postmarked postcard or cachet cover. The post office was closed in 1953. Bills Place, population 6, was located in Fulton County PA. Fulton Country is the "only country in Penna. that has no railroads, rivers, or poor houses".
Images from postcards/covers in my collection, this first card really captures the Lincoln highway era and atmosphere. I drool over the cars, signage, visible gas pumps...I was definitely born in the wrong time period.
I am working on developing an online exhibit of my collection of the 'smallest US post offices' postal history and will post a link in the next week or two.
Note that 'Bills Place' was no where near being the smallest PO in US (base upon total square footage of the PO). Bills Place was 48 square feet and there are at least 3-4 other post offices which were much smaller.
Don
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I just watched a fascinating video on You-Tube about the first transcontinental US highway, the Lincoln Highway. I went to my US specialized to check the US commemorative stamps issued for the highway and found none! What gives? I would have expected several stamps issued to commemorate it's opening or maybe a fiftieth anniversary. I'm amazed that such an interesting area of US history was ignored. Then I noticed there was nothing on Route 66 or any other highways, and am now more confused than ever!
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"Eisenhowers transcontinental highway should merit a stamp. It sure made travel easier. "
That is true, but the US Interstate Highway System played a big roll in bankrupting the railroads.
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03:50:37pm
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I was more curious about the Lincoln Highway than the one that replaces it in the 1930's. The Lincoln Highway was actually set up in the early 1920s and to me seems much more interesting since it was just a series of interconnected dirt roads. If memory of the video I saw serves me correctly Eisenhower traveled the Lincoln highway in about 1919, realized how much work it needed and decided to start the new system later when he became president. I think it was in the 1930s when a lot of the older system was paved and upgraded to a certain degree - definitely deserves a series of stamps!
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Wow you have paved roads, wish we had them in Canada.
Only kidding, our major potholes highways are paved but wish we had some decent UK style motorways with proper rest stops.
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When I was a teenager--quite a long time ago, in 1962--I arrived from Cuba under the auspices of the Cuban Children Program run by Catholic Charities at that time. Most of those Cuban children (about 14,000) were sent all over the USA to foster homes, care centers, orphanages, boarding schools, etc. I was fortunate to be sent to Schererville, Indiana, to a place called Hoosier Boys Town. It was located a couple of blocks from Old Lincoln Road, US 30. It was a busy road, connecting many communities in the Region. There was a race car track called Illiana Motorway, I think, in Hobart, not far from HBT. We could hear the rumble of the racing cars on Sunday. There was a radio jingle: "Drag Racing!!! Sunday! Sunday! at the beautiful US 30 Drag Strip", and take 2,"Sunday! Sunday! Sunday! Smoking US 30 Drag strip" The announcer, Larry Lujak, from WLS Chicago Radio station. A classic.
Yes: I agree that the Roadways of the USA should have a postage stamp series! And Old Lincoln Road, US Highway 30, the Indiana section of that road should be featured...
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Researching this topic I found this:
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Hi Harvey:
There may not be a commemorative stamp for the Lincoln Highway, but you can find some commemorative postmarks if you would key in "Lincoln Highway" as a search term for U.S. covers on eBay. I lived in Denison, Iowa, as a teenager and it was on the Lincoln Highway. Here is a cover (not mine, from eBay) commemorating the road:
You can do the same for Route 66 and turn up several examples.
FrequentFlyer
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The Lincoln Highway was a big deal in northern Indiana.
Here is a great postcard view from west of South Bend, Indiana. It's an extraordinarily detailed scene. If you scroll down in the description, you'll see several links to close-up views of the postcard details. It's one of the clearest real photo postcards I've ever worked with.
https://flic.kr/p/8UH5Rm
Tom
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re: Lincoln highway
Superb posts:
postcard from South Bend, Indiana
and
Lincoln Hwy Postmarks
Now, how can we get the ball rolling in order to have the USPS create a series of postage stamps commemorating Old Lincoln Rd. US 30, Route 66, and the Federal Highway System?
thanks
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I hadn't really thought about it before, but the Lincoln Highway runs a few miles from my home, the leg that goes from Philadelphia to Lancaster, PA.
The surviving structure in my town is the Ship Inn. It was built in the late 1700s and was a stage coach stop and Inn through the 1850s. It's a restaurant today.
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Beautiful structure.
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They don't build 'em like that anymore.
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The Lincoln Highway went through my home town of Marshalltown, Iowa, where I was born and educated, through college. In 1976, my employer sent me to computer mainframe training in the Philadelphia suburbs, and I remember seeing the Lincoln Highway on the Philadelphia Main Line, familiar signs reminding me of home so far away.
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Lincoln Highway played a major role in the transportation history of the US. It was due to new highways like this, in conjunction with the development of cheaper cars, that allowed the US to grow into rural areas.
These transportation technologies also gave birth to incredible economic growth in the form of Motor Courts, restaurants, gas stations and tourist attractions.
Since I am a collector of 'smallest post office' postal history, I cannot let this thread go by without mentioning 'Bill's Place'. William 'Bill' Wakefield was owner of a restaurant in the Blue Ridge Mountains of central Pennsylvania called Bill’s Place. In a marketing stroke of genius, Bill added and opened a small post office on May 22, 1935. Advertised with billboards along the Lincoln Highway as the "Smallest Post Office in the U.S.", many travelers stopped in for a meal and a postmarked postcard or cachet cover. The post office was closed in 1953. Bills Place, population 6, was located in Fulton County PA. Fulton Country is the "only country in Penna. that has no railroads, rivers, or poor houses".
Images from postcards/covers in my collection, this first card really captures the Lincoln highway era and atmosphere. I drool over the cars, signage, visible gas pumps...I was definitely born in the wrong time period.
I am working on developing an online exhibit of my collection of the 'smallest US post offices' postal history and will post a link in the next week or two.
Note that 'Bills Place' was no where near being the smallest PO in US (base upon total square footage of the PO). Bills Place was 48 square feet and there are at least 3-4 other post offices which were much smaller.
Don
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