The Grapes of Wrath. Rural Oklahoma along Route 66, in February 2017. My Route 66 posts so far have been east-to-west. These are west-to-east (with some rearrangement here and there for thematic reasons). Why start […]
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“Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.”
Route 66, Day 6. Kansas. Yes, Dorothy, we are not in Kansas anymore. (In fact, as I write this, I am in Santa Rosa, New Mexico.) I don’t know how long your house was in […]
Route 66 in Missouri: the gas stations and garages
Route 66 in Missouri: the garages and gas stations. Can’t get enough of these? Here you go! Many of these are of the Gay Parita gas station at Paris Junction, MO. It is the best. […]
Route 66 in Missouri – the motels
Route 66 in Missouri: the old motels and hotels. Some are lovingly restored; some are a little worse for wear; some are pretty down-and-out; and then there the ones that are truly out-and-out. In this […]
Route 66 in Missouri – Springfield to Jasper
Day 6. Route 66 in Missouri, Springfield to the Kansas state line at Jasper. I did some photography in Springfield in the morning. Very quiet. It had its moments; the Arabesque landmark Shrine Mosque theater […]
Route 66 in Missouri: Rolla to Springfield
Day 5. Route 66 in Missouri, Rolla to Springfield. Missouri has some fine stretches of the old road. That is, when one can get on them. Parts of Route 66 in Missouri have been completely […]
Route 66 in Missouri – crossing the Mississippi
Day 4 – Crossing the Mississippi. St. Louis to Rolla. The first pictures are on the Illinois side of the Mississippi. First, the site on the river where Lewis and Clark set out on their […]
Springfield to Granite City and the Mississippi
Day 3 (continued). Thursday 9 Feb. Springfield to Granite City on the banks of the Mississippi. The next morning I crossed over to Missouri. To the left is a vintage postcard of the Chain of […]
Springfield IL
Day 3. Springfield, Thursday 9 Feb. It’s the capital of the State of Illinois. The old and new capitol buildings are impressive. The first three were taken the day before at the end of Day […]
Bloomington to Springfield – Snow Day
Route 66, Day 2, Wednesday 8 Feb. –Bloomington to Springfield. Snow Day. The good news: the car was fine. They looked at it right away when I showed up first thing in the morning at the […]
Wilmington to Bloomington IL
Route 66, Day 1 (Tuesday 7 Feb.) – Wilmington to Bloomington. It was a special day. My first on Route 66 on the Epic USA Road Trip. Fantastic. It was like parachuting into a completely […]
Fairfield to Vacaville
On the 1928 Lincoln Highway route in California, Nov. 2016. We start in Fairfield via Cordelia. Fairfield – meh. It is a very impressive courthouse (1911), however, complete with Lincoln Highway concrete marker in front. […]
Vallejo
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 […]
San Pablo to Crockett
The next stretch on San Pablo Avenue takes us from San Pablo to the Carquinez Strait. Read about the Alvarado Adobe and the Blume House at Alvarado Square in San Pablo here. The classic […]
El Cerrito to Richmond
On the 1928 route in Contra Costa County to the Carquinez Bridge. (It’s bridges actually. There are two of them.) It’s easy to describe the route: San Pablo Avenue all the way to Crockett […]
Arriving Berkeley
Berkeley and Albany on the 1928 route in Alameda County. After the construction of the Yolo Causeway over the marshes near Sacramento and more importantly the bridging of the Carquinez Strait, the Lincoln was re-routed […]
Stockton, part two (the nice bits)
On the 1913 route. Historic Stockton. Now, as my English friends would say, the nice bits. There are indeed good parts of this city and signs of renewal. The Fox Theater (1930) is a notable […]
Stockton
On the 1913 route. Right there in the SF Bay Area’s backyard is Stockton. This is not some place in the Rust Belt 2000 miles away in Indiana, Ohio or Pennsylvania – it is 84 […]
Mountain House to Lathrop
After Altamont we continue on the 1913 route and pass through Mountain House (and by yet more housing developments under construction) and get to Tracy and then Banta. The Grand Theater in Tracy is […]
Over the Altamont Pass
From Livermore we drive first over the Altamont Pass on the 1913 route. In the first several pictures that is the historic Summit Garage which predates the Lincoln. I saw someone inside working on a car […]
In vino veritas
Livermore Valley wine country. Some days the light doesn’t cooperate; some days it does. The day I did this shoot in the wine country near Livermore – right off the former Lincoln Highway – the […]
Livermore
On the 1913 route in Livermore. There are many historic sites in Livermore (and some great places to stop for a bite to eat, too). The Duarte Garage (1915) served travelers passing through Livermore […]
Hayward to Livermore
The Lincoln Highway’s original 1913 route left Hayward on A Street and then ran along what is now I-580 to the Tri-Valley area (i.e. Amador Valley, Livermore Valley and San Ramon Valley) passing through Dublin […]
Street art in Hayward
On the 1913 route in Hayward. More street art (which is an ongoing photographic theme on my Lincoln Highway travels). Read here about Russell City, a long gone historic African-American and Latino community which was in […]
Oakland to Hayward
On the 1913 route first through San Leandro, San Lorenzo and Castro Valley, and then to Hayward. Leaving Oakland for Hayward first we will stop at three post-war theaters: the Bal (1945) in San Leandro, […]
Leaving Oakland
The Lincoln exits Oakland through an old neighborhood called the Clinton district heading towards East Oakland. Originally, one would have left on Foothill all the way out, but Foothill is one-way now (in the direction […]
Lake Merritt
This set features Lake Merritt. From the downtown drivers on the Lincoln Highway passed by Lake Merritt and then left Oakland on Foothill Blvd. in the direction of Hayward. A few of these were […]
In the Oakland Produce Market
The Lincoln Highway in Oakland. Early morning photo shoot at the Oakland Produce Market, July 2016. It’s right by the route of the Lincoln just a few blocks up from Jack London Square. You can read […]
Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.
Oakland’s Chinatown dates back to the 1850s. These photos date back, too, but not that far – the entire set is from a walkabout back in 2008. As the Oakland website says, this is the […]
Oakland’s movie palaces
The Fox and the Paramount. Miraculously, both the Fox (1928) and the Paramount (1931) have survived and are thriving in a revitalized Uptown Oakland district. The Fox was closed for years; at one point the […]
Oakland art deco
As in San Francisco, Oakland also has some amazing surviving art deco buildings. This set includes, among others, the Oakland Floral Depot, the I. Magnin building, the Paramount (more Paramount in the next set!), the […]
Oaktown
“Oaktown” (among its other distinctions) is my birthplace (Kaiser Hospital) – it’s an illustrious born-in-Oakland group which also includes Luke Skywalker (Mark Hammill) and Beast Mode himself, Marshawn Lynch. Bruce Lee lived in Oakland; so […]
Arriving Oakland
Arriving in Oakland. Navigating the original 1913 route of the Lincoln Highway one left on the Broadway Ferry from the Ferry Slips at the south end of the Ferry Building in San Francisco, crossed the […]