The Lincoln Highway: Coast to Coast from Times Square to the Golden Gate
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.67 (806 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393341305 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 293 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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With an eye for details and a gift for storytelling, he moves just as smoothly between the role of tour guide and yarn spinner as he does between the road's history and its current incarnation. Most every town, restaurant, mom-and-pop store the author encounters along The Main Street Across America has seen better days, but Wallis still takes the time to celebrate their classic architecture and down-home recipes. With a chapter dedicated to each of the 13 states that the highway passes through, this book will delight those looking to uncover their local roots as well as adventurers yearning for that American rite of passage—a cross-country road trip. All rights reserved. . From
With hundreds of rare photographs, this ode to a bygone era guides us across the true spine of the country, exploring vintage diners, Art Deco buildings, and funky roadside attractionsall waiting to be discovered. It was a magnificent and meandering road that enticed millions of newly motoring Americans to hop in their Model Ts and explore the fading frontier. It was the road of Gettysburg, Pretty Boy Floyd, Notre Dame, the Great Salt Lake, and the Gold Rush Trail. 300 four-color illustrations and photographs. Once a symbol of limitless potential, it has undergone a miraculous revival. The best-selling author of Route 66 and a Pulitzer Prize–winning photographer celebrate America’s first transcontinental highway in all its neon glory. It began in 1913 with a glo
C. KISER said we're enjoying this book very much, so far,. we're enjoying this book very much, so far, and hope to make several trips along the Lincoln Highway in years to comehopefully in one of our antique automobiles. Book packed quickly and carelessly, though, because one of the front cover corners got flipped up and creased. We hope this does not caus. "Disappointed." according to Fay J.. Not enough instruction for finding what few landmarks are on the Highway. We were expecting step by step guide. Not Route 66 for sure.. "Great travel / history book" according to Barbara Keck. After seeing a TV program about the Lincoln Highway, we had to have this book. Very satisfied.
Michael Wallis is the best-selling author of Route 66, Billy the Kid, Pretty Boy, and David Crockett. Williamson, a photographer for the Washington Post, won a Pulitzer Prize for And the Children After Them and another for his war photography in Kosovo. . He lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma.Michael S. He voiced The Sheriff in the animated Pixar feature Cars. He hosts the PBS series American Roads