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 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. 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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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” (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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]