Life On The Highway

Life on Hwy 30 #25

gemnewt wrote:Life on Hwy 30 #1

Little America grew into one of the nicest Truckstop/hotel in country. Little America,Wy is off I80 almost at the Utah border.

Thanks magicman
There wasn't any captions for these photos and what was there was in Spanish, so by identifying it you help tell the story better of life on the highway.

Life on Hwy 30 #26
Mom, can we get out? No you boys just stay in the trunk.

Life on Hwy 30 #27

Life on Hwy 30 #28

Life on Hwy 30 #29
Now this guy has the right idea if your going to camp out by the highway
do it behind the signs.

Life on Hwy 30 #30
I wouldn't mind seeing the USA on a motorcycle but not with your
wife and baby. You would get better gas mileage. I hope they
at least stayed in motels.

Life on Hwy 30 #31
I'm sure travelers saw this sign all the time.

Life on Hwy 30 #32
Oh well If you did see that sign that stated "No Vacancy" I guess you just got
back on the highway kicked back and tried to enjoy it.

Coal Hill Summit marker on Lakes-To-Sea Highway.
This 1930s vintage photo was taken on what is now PA 350 in Centre County. The Lakes-To-Sea Highway at the time was US 322 which succeeded PA 5's designation.

In 1919, the Transcontinental Motor Convoy , a military expedition, used the Lincoln Highway to cross the country from Washington, D.C. to San Francisco, California. They averaged fifty-eight miles per day to test the U.S. Military’s ability to move material and personnel across the country overland using motorized vehicles, in the event of war with an “Asiatic Enemy”.
One of the participants in the endeavour was Lieutenant Colonel Dwight Eisenhower who later, as President of the United States, began the Interstate Highway System when he signed the Federal Highway Act of 1956. He described the conditions through Southwest Wyoming at the time as “very poor dirt roads” and said that much of the path through Utah and Nevada were little more than wagon ruts through the desert. Much of the original Lincoln Highway through Uinta County here is still dirt road.

Map from Washington, D.C. to San Francisco, California

A woman serves free lemonade to the Transcontinental Motor Convoy of 1919.

Evicted sharecroppers along highway 60 in New Madrid Co., Mo. January 1939

Tennessee State Troopers.
Somebody please put a caption with this picture, there's something
very funny about this I can just feel it.

Must be free donuts!

That's a good one. How about, I wish the state would buy
more than one portable toilet in these rural areas.

I don't know what they are waiting on but I've always wished we had kept those style of license plates.

Flashing Traffic

Really wish i was driving on that highway

#23 why the bag.in back.?

6-71Kid wrote:Really wish i was driving on that highway

Wish I was holding the camera!

jbs10 wrote:#23 why the bag.in back.?

It's a canvas water bag. My dad still has a couple of them. If carried them, you didn't want them inside the car because they sweated. If you were out west, especially, you wanted them because there is a whole lot of nothing out there in places.