Download or read book Yesterday s Highways written by Stephen H. Provost and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-16 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relive the history of the American highway from its origins in the era of the covered wagon through the age of the interstate. Illustrated with more than 400 images from roads across the country, "Yesterday's Highways" takes you back to the old auto trails that paved the way for the first federal highway system. You'll visit the diners, motels, filling stations and quirky roadside haunts of yesteryear. From White Castle to Howard Johnson's, learn about how the American road served up burgers and coffee and blue-plate specials to weary truckers and vacationing families. Journey back to the age of auto camps and revisit the time when mom-and-pop motel courts ruled the side of the road. Before the advent of off-ramps and car-pool lanes, highways zigzagged through downtowns across the heartland, turning at stop signs and following rail lines. Cars chugged along at 15 mph over gravel roads and narrow, concrete ribbons with dozens of hairpin turns. Drivers were treated to barn ads and billboards and Burma-Shave signs. The Lincoln Highway. Route 66. Highway 99. El Camino Real. The Great Valley Road. Travel back in time and experience what made these roads and so many others the lifeblood of the American experience.
Download or read book Blue Highways written by William Least Heat-Moon and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads. William Least Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about "those little towns that get on the map -- if they get on at all -- only because some cartographer has a blank space to fill: Remote, Oregon; Simplicity, Virginia; New Freedom, Pennsylvania; New Hope, Tennessee; Why, Arizona; Whynot, Mississippi." His adventures, his discoveries, and his recollections of the extraordinary people he encountered along the way amount to a revelation of the true American experience.
Download or read book Interstate Highway System Hearings on S 1355 May 13 June 2 1921 67 1 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on post office and post roads and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lincoln Highway written by Amor Towles and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER More than ONE MILLION copies sold A TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick A New York Times Notable Book, and Chosen by Oprah Daily, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Bill Gates and Barack Obama as a Best Book of the Year “Wise and wildly entertaining . . . permeated with light, wit, youth.” —The New York Times Book Review “A classic that we will read for years to come.” —Jenna Bush Hager, Read with Jenna book club “Fantastic. Set in 1954, Towles uses the story of two brothers to show that our personal journeys are never as linear or predictable as we might hope.” —Bill Gates “A real joyride . . . elegantly constructed and compulsively readable.” —NPR The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden's car. Together, they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take them all on a fateful journey in the opposite direction—to the City of New York. Spanning just ten days and told from multiple points of view, Towles's third novel will satisfy fans of his multi-layered literary styling while providing them an array of new and richly imagined settings, characters, and themes. “Once again, I was wowed by Towles’s writing—especially because The Lincoln Highway is so different from A Gentleman in Moscow in terms of setting, plot, and themes. Towles is not a one-trick pony. Like all the best storytellers, he has range. He takes inspiration from famous hero’s journeys, including The Iliad, The Odyssey, Hamlet, Huckleberry Finn, and Of Mice and Men. He seems to be saying that our personal journeys are never as linear or predictable as an interstate highway. But, he suggests, when something (or someone) tries to steer us off course, it is possible to take the wheel.” – Bill Gates
Download or read book Emergency Construction of Public Highways Hearing on S 1771 April 6 1937 75 1 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tolls on Federal Aid Highways Hearings on S 796 June 26 and July 21 1953 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alaska Highway Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Roads 90 1 on S 2021 a Bill to Authorize the Appropriation of Funds for the Construction Reconstruction and Improvement of the Alaska Highway September 14 1967 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book To Amend the Federal Aid Highway Act Hearings on S 4213 March 11 13 30 1936 74 2 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book To Amend the Federal Aid Highway Act Hearings on S 3309 H R 10140 Jan 26 and May 13 1938 75 3 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Emergency Highway Repairs Defense Access Highways Hearings S 2025 August 1951 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Federal Aid Highway Legislation Hearings on S 36 Jan 18 21 1932 72 1 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on post office and post roads and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Roads Were Not Built for Cars written by Carlton Reid and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2015-04-09 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Roads Were Not Built for Cars, Carlton Reid reveals the pivotal—and largely unrecognized—role that bicyclists played in the development of modern roadways. Reid introduces readers to cycling personalities, such as Henry Ford, and the cycling advocacy groups that influenced early road improvements, literally paving the way for the motor car. When the bicycle morphed from the vehicle of rich transport progressives in the 1890s to the “poor man’s transport” in the 1920s, some cyclists became ardent motorists and were all too happy to forget their cycling roots. But, Reid explains, many motor pioneers continued cycling, celebrating the shared links between transport modes that are now seen as worlds apart. In this engaging and meticulously researched book, Carlton Reid encourages us all to celebrate those links once again.
Download or read book Gravel Roads written by Ken Skorseth and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this manual is to provide clear and helpful information for maintaining gravel roads. Very little technical help is available to small agencies that are responsible for managing these roads. Gravel road maintenance has traditionally been "more of an art than a science" and very few formal standards exist. This manual contains guidelines to help answer the questions that arise concerning gravel road maintenance such as: What is enough surface crown? What is too much? What causes corrugation? The information is as nontechnical as possible without sacrificing clear guidelines and instructions on how to do the job right.
Download or read book Highway Right of way Act 1940 Hearing on S 3105 May 9 1940 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Comm't on post offices and post roads and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alaska Highway Hearings Before a Subcommittee on S Res 253 June 1 12 and 16 1942 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Foreign Relations and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Highway Beautification Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Roads 91 1 on S 561 S 1442 June 17 18 1969 Serial No 91 14 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book To Amend the Defense Highway Act of 1941 Hearings S 1610 March 10 1944 78 2 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
