March 1957- Horn Motor Lodge, 1720 Central Ave. SW (Highway 66). Tile baths, individual heating units, air conditioned rooms, TV in rooms. Prices $3.50 up. ...
PR on Victory Highway rededication. Go here, for images: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/3/prweb510160.htm Dedication Ceremony to Place Commemorative...
Word from the highway is that the world-famous Blue Swallow Motel was recently painted purple with burgundy trim. No one knows its true colors, but the...
I think so. Anyone seen the Aztec Hotel recently? The restoration work there is including a completely new paint job on the exterior as well. I won't even...
The restoration project of The Aztec Hotel is being lead by Glen Duncan and the Californian Route 66 Preservation Foundation. This project has taken over 4...
By Diane Welch UNION-TRIBUNE March 4, 2007 Before construction of Interstate 5 through North County in the 1960s, U.S. Highway 101 served as the main artery...
By MARC SIMMONS | The New Mexican March 17, 2007 It was called America's Main Street. It also was known by the name author John Steinbeck coined: The Mother...
Article published Mar 22, 2007 Officials will dedicate Big Bend Scenic Byway today By Gerald Ensley DEMOCRAT SENIOR WRITER A six-year campaign to boost local...
Who in this group would agree with me that something major is about to happen on the world scene, but you're not sure what it is? Look at Virginia Tech. My...
Friends, I have been trying to collect as much as I can about the Good Roads movement, American auto trails, and the earliest alignments of U.S. numbered...
In the last post I asked about the national headquarters of the various auto trail associations. After a lot of looking at maps, books, and doing searches,...
I was pleased to meet a number of you at the Route 66 Festival in Clinton, Oklahoma. On the way out, we took in the usual 66 sites (including Harley and...
Actually, I'm up for that if you mean "road trip". Although hot, it would have to be in summer (or the last two weeks in December) for me, unless it's fairly...
December sounds good; nice and cool. During my work with TXDOT, I drove the US 290 corridor, using old control logbook entries to identify the original...
Steve, The HQ location for a number of trail associations changed over the years. The Old Spanish Trail started in Mobile and then shifted to San Antonio. If...
I don't know much about the Borderland Highway except that it is a pretty old trail and generally followed 80. I haven't seen anything on its route. I know a...
The Borderland is one of the earliest auto trails to come out of the Southwest. OST pathfinder, Harry Locke, mapped it in c.1912. The highway became the...
Every transcontinental highway contains a gateway, a subtle to not- so-subtle transition transporting a traveler from one geography to another. Some highways...
The early Ocean-to-Ocean Highway Association was headquartered in Los Angeles at the Hollenbeck Hotel. I believe the Redlands Chamber of Commerce served as the...
Look what this guy wrote in the year 1999, about our present day wars with Iraq, about the World Trade Center bombings, and about what our every day life...
The author, if they are receiving emails from this forum should realize that posts unrelated to the subject matter of the forum are not really welcome. There...
I'm compiling a complete list of auto trails based on maps I have, images sent to me, and online sources. I will be adding to it as I get more primary source...
Parsa, WOW!!! What a GREAT list you have put together. Those of us involved in old roads are going to find this list an invaluable resource. Take care and see...
I'm going to be doing a three day scouting trip to the area around Yuma, AZ and west toward Jacumba along old US 80 on the days after Thanksgiving. One area I...
Hello folks, I added a new page to my web site. It's the intro page for the Dixie Overland Highway auto trail. I'm still working on it, but it's better to have...
US 395 has been named an historic state highway in California. Here are two news articles (Yahoo will probably have it's usual trouble with the URLs...) ...
I've added several more states and cities to the City Maps section of my web site, including a few more San Diego maps. I have many more I can add, but there's...
After an extended leave of absence (since Dec. 2007), we're back on the web. During the hiatus we made a few trips on the Old Spanish Trail, Abo Pass, El...
