On the 1928 Lincoln Highway route in California, Nov. 2016.
First, Vallejo. Initially, we are looking across the water to Mare Island. (A Mare Island gallery to come from a shoot at the former naval base.) The two with deep blue skies were taken over a year ago on a pretty sunny day on my way to the Napa Valley, and the balance are from late 2016.
Vallejo has quite a collection of historic buildings in the center city. It is a quiet downtown, however, and struggling. (Along with “challenged” that’s another word in my posts getting a lot of use.) Economically, Vallejo is still recovering from the closure of the naval shipyards, even though it has been over 20 years now. The direct job losses alone exceeded 10,000. Add to that the indirect job losses – the loss of customers by stores, restaurants and other services, for example – and it’s a big hole to dig out of. There is no small amount of irony when it calls itself the “city of opportunity”.
Java Jax is on the site of a former service station; friendly service and great coffee.
That’s the Mare Island Causeway Bridge (1919) in this set.
US 40 – one of the historic “numbered highways” – later ran along the route of much of the former Lincoln Highway from the Bay Area to Sacramento and onward (mostly what is now I-80). US 40 also once traversed the entire country.
