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 […]
Category Archives: Lincoln Highway
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 […]
San Francisco – Lincoln Park to the Hyde St. Pier
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 […]
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 […]