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Yesterday s Highways
Author | : Stephen H. Provost |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2020-02-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1949971104 |
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Relive the history of the American highway from its origins in the era of the covered wagon through the age of the interstate. Illustrated with more than 400 images from roads across the country, "Yesterday's Highways" takes you back to the old auto trails that paved the way for the first federal highway system. You'll visit the diners, motels, filling stations and quirky roadside haunts of yesteryear. From White Castle to Howard Johnson's, learn about how the American road served up burgers and coffee and blue-plate specials to weary truckers and vacationing families. Journey back to the age of auto camps and revisit the time when mom-and-pop motel courts ruled the side of the road. Before the advent of off-ramps and car-pool lanes, highways zigzagged through downtowns across the heartland, turning at stop signs and following rail lines. Cars chugged along at 15 mph over gravel roads and narrow, concrete ribbons with dozens of hairpin turns. Drivers were treated to barn ads and billboards and Burma-Shave signs. The Lincoln Highway. Route 66. Highway 99. El Camino Real. The Great Valley Road. Travel back in time and experience what made these roads and so many others the lifeblood of the American experience.
The Lincoln Highway
Author | : Amor Towles |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 593 |
Release | : 2021-10-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780735222373 |
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER More than ONE MILLION copies sold A TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick A New York Times Notable Book, and Chosen by Oprah Daily, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Bill Gates and Barack Obama as a Best Book of the Year “Wise and wildly entertaining . . . permeated with light, wit, youth.” —The New York Times Book Review “A classic that we will read for years to come.” —Jenna Bush Hager, Read with Jenna book club “Fantastic. Set in 1954, Towles uses the story of two brothers to show that our personal journeys are never as linear or predictable as we might hope.” —Bill Gates “A real joyride . . . elegantly constructed and compulsively readable.” —NPR The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden's car. Together, they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take them all on a fateful journey in the opposite direction—to the City of New York. Spanning just ten days and told from multiple points of view, Towles's third novel will satisfy fans of his multi-layered literary styling while providing them an array of new and richly imagined settings, characters, and themes. “Once again, I was wowed by Towles’s writing—especially because The Lincoln Highway is so different from A Gentleman in Moscow in terms of setting, plot, and themes. Towles is not a one-trick pony. Like all the best storytellers, he has range. He takes inspiration from famous hero’s journeys, including The Iliad, The Odyssey, Hamlet, Huckleberry Finn, and Of Mice and Men. He seems to be saying that our personal journeys are never as linear or predictable as an interstate highway. But, he suggests, when something (or someone) tries to steer us off course, it is possible to take the wheel.” – Bill Gates
Interstate Highway System Hearings on S 1355 May 13 June 2 1921 67 1
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on post office and post roads |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 612 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105119517436 |
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Emergency Construction of Public Highways Hearing on S 1771 April 6 1937 75 1
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1937 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105045543738 |
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Tolls on Federal Aid Highways Hearings on S 796 June 26 and July 21 1953
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Public Works |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 1953 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105119663545 |
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To Amend the Federal Aid Highway Act Hearings on S 4213 March 11 13 30 1936 74 2
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 1936 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105045543720 |
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Alaska Highway Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Roads 90 1 on S 2021 a Bill to Authorize the Appropriation of Funds for the Construction Reconstruction and Improvement of the Alaska Highway September 14 1967
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105119526106 |
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To Amend the Federal Aid Highway Act Hearings on S 3309 H R 10140 Jan 26 and May 13 1938 75 3
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 1938 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105045543746 |
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