Stumbled upon this, really interesting to me.
Check out the campus town area around the 7:00minute mark.
Check out the campus town area around the 7:00minute mark.
Mom reminds us that when she was younger, 151 from Dubuque south was not only 70mph limit and 2 lane, but had CURBS on it rather than shoulders.Not Highway 30, but I remember riding on some of those narrow two-lane highways in southeast Iowa at the posted limit of 70 mph back before I was old enough to get my license. No wonder the number of traffic deaths was so high back then …
Stumbled upon this, really interesting to me.
Check out the campus town area around the 7:00minute mark.
Can’t believe Nevada had a Starbuck’s back then!
Yep, same for me. The highway from Eldon out to where the high school was located 1) was a narrow 2-lane; 2) with curbs; 3) had a pair of nearly 90-degree corners; and 4) had a 70-mph speed limit.Mom reminds us that when she was younger, 151 from Dubuque south was not only 70mph limit and 2 lane, but had CURBS on it rather than shoulders.
As the years go by and highways evolve, it’s interesting to me to see places like Marshalltown: the original Lincoln Highway went through the city, then they built a bypass on the south side, then as that area got built-up and congested they built another four-lane bypass of the bypass.It has always been interesting to me how many different routes through Marion and CR that 30/Lincoln Highway took over the years as it slowly got straightened out to the straightaway across the south side that we know it as now.
Yep, same for me. The highway from Eldon out to where the high school was located 1) was a narrow 2-lane; 2) with curbs; 3) had a pair of nearly 90-degree corners; and 4) had a 70-mph speed limit.
You used to step off the steps of Sacred Heart Church in Fillmore basically into the highway in those days.Mom reminds us that when she was younger, 151 from Dubuque south was not only 70mph limit and 2 lane, but had CURBS on it rather than shoulders.
Still do. It’s better than the coffee chain.Can’t believe Nevada had a Starbuck’s back then!
The Old 59 stretch from Harlan to Defiance is a low-key drag strip with a few rollercoaster hills sprinkled in. Memories!I lived on "old 59" back in the day before they put in "new 59"