On the 1928 route in San Francisco. As with the Lincoln Highway’s original route in San Francisco, the 1928 route left Lincoln Park at El Camino del Mar but then immediately cut over to California […]
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San Francisco – Van Ness Ave.
1913 and 1928 routes: Van Ness Avenue, along the Lincoln Highway route in San Francisco. Both the original 1913 route and the later 1928 route ran along parts of Van Ness Avenue. During the 1906 […]
San Francisco – Ferry Building and Embarcadero
1913 route in San Francisco, part six: the Ferry Building and the Embarcadero, San Francisco. The Ferry Building (1892) was where the car ferries arrived and left to connect the Lincoln Highway with Oakland. According […]
San Francisco art deco
1913 route in San Francisco, part five. Art deco! There is a wealth of art deco architecture in San Francisco on or near the Lincoln Highway’s route along Market through the downtown to Mid-Market. The […]
Market St., San Francisco
1913 route in San Francisco, part four. Market Street in San Francisco from Van Ness to the Ferry Building. The original route took motorist down Market to Ferry Slip 4 by the Ferry Building for the […]
Geary and Post Streets, San Francisco
1913 route in San Francisco, part three. A later re-routing of the Lincoln Highway in San Francisco exited Lincoln Park at 34th until a right on Geary. Motorists then followed Geary to Presidio Ave., made a […]
Presidio of San Francisco – the National Cemetery
1913 route in San Francisco, part two. The San Francisco National Cemetery, located in the Presidio of San Francisco. Established 1884. More than 30,000 people that served in the US military rest there. 35 recipients of […]
San Francisco – Lincoln Park to the Marina District
1913 route in San Francisco, part one. San Francisco: Lincoln Park to Market on the original route through the Presidio as far as the Marina district along Chestnut. That is an original concrete marker right […]
The Lincoln Highway in California
The Western Terminus of the Lincoln Highway is in Lincoln Park, San Francisco. In November 2016 on a Thanksgiving visit back home and earlier in the year in July during a summer stay, I retraced the […]
The Philadelphians
Street photography in Philadelphia. Although Philadelphia can be a little gritty I very much like the place. There is a ton to do and for me it is really a photographer’s paradise – especially the […]
Philadelphia street art
Like so many other stops along the Lincoln Highway there is a wealth of street art in Philadelphia. Under the auspices of the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program the city has undertaken a huge street art […]
Penn walkabout
More Philly. University of Pennsylvania walkabout – on a very cold Sunday morning. The university was in session but there were not too many students about. It made it easier for the photography but the […]
Reading Terminal Market – Part Two
More Philly. Some shots taken this last Sunday morning at the historic Reading Terminal Market. I had been there late afternoon the day before, and it was just too crowded, including with a lot of […]
Reading Terminal Market – Part One
Some people pix at the Reading Terminal Market last weekend in Philly. The first two were taken the first day when I visited in the late afternoon during the Santacon partying. I asked the Salvation […]
Back to Philly
Back in Philadelphia, December 2016. I just got back from a weekend in Philadelphia (arrived Friday afternoon and got back Sunday night). This is a city that is well down the comeback trail and […]
On the Delaware and Raritan Canal
New Jersey, on a drive along the Delaware and Raritan Canal. Yesterday for about the fourth or fifth time in the last few months I got in my TT, headed across the Verrazano Bridge from […]
Trenton Makes the World Takes
Back to Trenton, October 2016. The first two pictures of the Lower Trenton Bridge (also called the Trenton Makes Bridge) were taken on the spring 2016 Lincoln Highway trip. It is also known as […]
Princeton Battlefield
Princeton, October 2016. The first five photos were taken just after sunrise on a cold late fall morning at Princeton Battlefield State Park. It’s hard to see in the photos but there was a frost on the […]
Gargoyles!
Princeton University, June and October, 2016. In the historic part of the Princeton campus gargoyles and grotesques can be found on many of the buildings. They are a hoot. There are many more […]
Princeton University
Princeton University, June 2016 and back again in October 2016. Princeton is a handsome campus and what one imagines an Ivy League campus to look like. IMHO Princeton is the coolest Ivy, hands down. Gorgeous. […]
New Brunswick
New Brunswick, NJ. In late May 2016 on the big Lincoln Highway drive and again in October 2016 on a weekend trip drive from New York (with more time for the stop) I had […]
College tour
The Lincoln Highway exits Philadelphia along the Main Line. During my Philadelphia area explorations on the spring trip and back again in October 2016 I also stopped off at Bryn Mar, Haverford and Villanova all […]
Sail away
The SS United States, October 2016. Now docked at Pier 82 on the Delaware River in Philadelphia. She still holds the “Blue Riband” as the fastest passenger liner crossing the Atlantic Ocean in regular service […]
Rocky!
On location in Philly. The first two shots below feature my two boys channeling Rocky Balboa at the museum steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The next few shots are from the Italian […]
South Philly
On a Philly weekend visit, October 2016. Philadelphia’s 9th Street Italian Market, said to be the oldest and largest working outdoor market in the United States. I went on a Sunday morning which meant some […]
Crossing the Mississippi to Iowa, Sept. 2016
Clinton, IA, on the Lincoln Highway, Sept. 2016. It was very pretty along the river (especially in the morning mist). There’s a riverboat now being used as a performance venue. Gorgeous historic courthouse (1897). […]
Last stops in Illinois
Morrison and Fulton. These are the last stops on the Lincoln before crossing over to Iowa. Both made a fine impression (and especially Fulton). The gas station in Fulton is an absolute classic. Although it […]
Dixon to Sterling and Rock Falls
First stop, just outside Prairieville on the Palmyra Road out of Dixon (original 1913 routing of the Lincoln Highway) for a shoot at the classic Midway Drive-In (1949), said to be the oldest standing drive-in […]
Detour to Grand Detour (and Oregon)
Just off the Lincoln Highway (up from Dixon on Illinois Route 2) is Grand Detour and a bit north of that, Oregon. Grand Detour is just a tiny village (and a lovely one indeed). Why […]
Reagan country
Dixon, IL, on the Rock River. President Reagan was born in Tampico, IL. The family later moved to Dixon where he lived from the age of 9 to 22. Reagan once wrote as follows: […]
Barbed Wire Capital of the World
DeKalb, IL – the Barb City. After St Charles one heads due west through Main Street America on the route of the Lincoln Highway all the way to the Iowa state line at the […]
St. Charles
Third and final stop on the Fox River, St Charles, IL, and the end of a long day of driving. St. Charles is also a Chicago suburb. It’s a handsome city just off the Lincoln Highway and […]
Road to Perdition
Batavia and Geneva, IL. After scruffy Aurora these next two stops on the Lincoln Highway heading north on Illinois 31 were a distinct pleasure. First, the pretty little city of Batavia (also on […]