If everybody had an ocean Across the U. S. A. Then everybody’d be surfin’ Like Californi-a… Everybody’s gone surfin’ Surfin’ U.S.A. “Surfin’ U.S.A.” (Beach Boys, 1963), lyrics by Brian Wilson I am now back from […]
Author Archives: Daniel Leventhal
Chicago Deco
Chicago’s stunning Art Deco architecture. If you like art deco architecture and you don’t know Chicago, you may want to get it on your list. It sure is high on my list now. What a […]
Frank Lloyd Wright in Chicago
Wall-to-wall Frank Lloyd Wright. We continue with the break from my Southern California series with a few sets from a recent Chicago visit. One of the real treats of my stay in Chicago during November […]
Route 66 in Chicago
Route 66 in Chicago – the Missing Post. Where we last left off in my California series was Seal Beach just below Los Angeles County. I had planned to post another set or two from […]
Beaches! Coronado to Seal Beach.
California Dreamin’ Our California explorations continue. Let’s leave the desert and head to the Pacific Ocean now and visit some beaches. Not just any beaches but the glorious Southern California beaches. Love them! Growing up […]
Eastern Market, Detroit
Eastern Market | Detroit. The blog is back online. I’ve been traveling and had to give the posting a break for the last five or six weeks. Where I last left off was a series […]
Detroit Deco
In my travels in the USA I have seen and photographed a lot of amazing art deco architecture: Miami and Miami Beach, Philadelphia, Tulsa (Oklahoma), Lincoln and Omaha (Nebraska), Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle…and, of course, […]
Images of Detroit
Images of Detroit. As you will see in this set, it’s a city of contrasts. That’s for sure. Decay and rebirth are paired words I see a lot when people write about Detroit. I experienced […]
Motor Capital of the World
Motown. With the exception of a New York neon post late last month, my blog has been offline since mid-November. That’s when I did my final post from the return drive from California to New […]
New York City Neon
New York still has a wealth of surviving historic neon and other signage. These pictures are just a glimpse. I have taken these over the last several years. It’s been a longer term project and […]
American Gothic. Iowa, part three – Belle Plaine to the Mississippi
Crossing Iowa, part three – American Gothic. This last and final Iowa post takes us from Belle Plaine (just west of Cedar Rapids) to the Mississippi River but without a stop in Clinton on the […]
Crossing Iowa, part two – Nevada to Chelsea
Crossing Iowa, part two. There’s not much to tell About my hometown Life is easy and the tempo’s slow But if you really want to find what’s in it You’ll learn in a minute All […]
Crossing Iowa – Council Bluffs to Ames
Crossing Iowa, part one. At the end of March I left the Great Plains, crossed over the Missouri River from Omaha to Council Bluffs and started my drive across the Hawkeye State, Iowa. My goal […]
Nebraska Art Deco
Nebraska Deco. This post will take us to some very fine art deco architecture in Lincoln and Omaha, Nebraska. I had heard beforehand about the Tulsa, Oklahoma, art deco, featured in a couple of posts […]
Omaha!
Gateway to the West. “Omaha Oh somewhere in middle America Get right to the heart of matters Oh it’s the heart that matters more I think you’d better turn your ticket in And get your […]
God’s Country – the Lincoln Highway through Nebraska
Nebraska – Bushnell to Lincoln “Hey there neighbor, going my way east or west on the Lincoln Highway…” (Theme Song for the Lincoln Highway Radio Show on NBC, 1940-1942) It’s about 450 miles along the […]
In my little town – crossing rural Nebraska
Nebraska …the good life. That’s what the sign at the state line says. As I drove through rural Nebraska along the former Lincoln Highway (and off the interstate), it didn’t seem like a very good […]
Laramie and Cheyenne
Laramie (population 31,814) is Wyoming’s third largest city after Cheyenne (population 62,448) and Casper (population 59,628). It’s home to the University of Wyoming (founded in March 1886), which happens to be the only university in […]
Medicine Bow to Bosler
True West “When you call me that, smile.” (The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains, Owen Wister, 1902.) Did you ever wonder where that famous line came from? Now you know. Wister’s western novel takes […]
Rock Springs to Rawlins
Rock Springs to Rawlins. In this set, first we’ll see the balance of the photos I took in Rock Springs, Wyoming. It was towards the end of a long day of driving (with Rawlins as […]
Forever West – Into Wyoming
Lost in time. Echo, Utah, to Rock Springs, Wyoming. Once I left Coalville the drive became somewhat other worldly. My next (and last Utah) stop, Echo, was the beginning of about 1,000 miles of fading […]
Bonneville to Coalville
Bonneville to Coalville. Back in March I crossed over to Utah at Wendover (see previous post) and after a stop at the old WWII airbase, I got back on the road and headed for […]
Ely to Wendover and the Salt Flats
Ely NV to Wendover UT. After the long drive from Incline Village on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe all the way to Ely in the eastern part of the state and an overnight (see […]
The Loneliest Road in America
Carson City to Ely on US 50. A long day and a long drive. A lonely one too. US 50 stretches from West Sacramento, California, in the west, to Ocean City, Maryland, on the east […]
The Comstock Lode
Virginia City to Carson City. The Silver State. The first major discovery of silver ore in the United States was in 1859, in what became to be called the Comstock Lode in the Virginia […]
National Automobile Museum, Reno
The National Automobile Museum in Reno, Nevada. This post is for carheads. The National Automobile Museum is located just south of the Truckee River at the edge of the downtown. Among its many awards it’s […]
The Biggest Little City in the World
Reno, Nevada. On my March trip this year I got off I-80 right by Truckee to take 267 down to Lake Tahoe for an overnight with friends in Incline Village on Crystal Bay on […]
Gold Country to Lake Tahoe
Coloma to Tahoe. Continuing the eastward drive back in March I departed Placerville and the Pioneer Branch of the Lincoln Highway along today’s U.S. 50 to cut back over to the other Lincoln routing […]
Folsom Prison Blues
Folsom to Placerville. This post consists of two historic cities on the “Pioneer Branch” of the Lincoln Highway in California. As mentioned in a prior post, one branch (and the one I took over the […]
Sacramento to Rocklin
Sacramento to Rocklin. In this set we will continue our Lincoln Highway drive eastward, first exploring more of historic Sacramento and then making further stops in Roseville and Rocklin. In full disclosure, about a third […]
Humans of Route 66
Special July 4 post. We are going to return to Route 66 today for some American portraits. There’s a photography book I got as a Christmas present (or was it a birthday gift?) a few […]
Oh Lord, stuck in Lodi again
The return journey begins, March 2017. Back on the road. After a driving break in the SF Bay Area (much needed after over a month on Route 66) and car servicing I started the long […]
Ellis Island
Ellis Island. Yesterday I returned to Ellis Island for the first time in quite a few years. All of the photos in this set were taken either of, or from, Ellis Island. At the […]