Calling all Geezers
I'm a geezer too just a yungin though. Watching a bit on the history channel about early roads and vehicles, in the US. I remember redding a long time back about the adventures of Eisenhower and an a...
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rhagfo wrote:When I was a child traveling with Mom and Dad I-29 ended in Sioux City Iowa we had to take 2 lane from there to International Falls MN.wa8yxm wrote:
Not many now days remember those days before modern Freeways.. Which did not come into existence till Eisenhower made it to the big house with the number 1600 on it. Yup, folks our Freeway system is only about 60 years old.. Actually Henry Ford built the first one.. The Davison in Detroit. But it is only a few miles long.
The national system was signed into existence by President Eisenhower.
Not all of it, I am sure many here in the NW remember that I90 had two missing parts up to the early 90's.
There was the Scenic drive through downtown Wallace, ID, and the fact that I90 in Seattle started and ended (East bound and West bound) at a stop light about a mile short of I5.
I also remember when I-40 was not complete through AZ.
Something from childhood I remember was all the neon lights when you would get to a small town. Stoping at a gas station and getting a Coke & candy bar for 20 cents, Dad would give me a quarter and want his nickle back. Stoping at Mom and Pop dinner's, no chain resturants. We always took our GSD dog with us to Canada. Mom use to chain smoke and I would get car sick from it, don't miss that.
