The Lincoln Highway is about 15 miles north of where I live here in Iowa. It runs right through Jefferson, IA which is the county seat of Greene County. It also happens to be where I was born so I guess people associate it more with that than the highway
.... Ok, maybe not! They have a nice little museum there with some of the old highway posts and a bunch of original Burma Shave signs. Those that attended the Iowa Ride In last year got to ride a short section of it. One of these days I'd like to ride it from Jefferson to one of the coasts and then come back and run it the other way... someday! It does seem to be one of the less publicised pieces of history if you don't live near it. CW McCall even did a song about called Old 30... lyrics:
She was mud and sand and concrete
Mixed with water made a tears
From the rivers runnin down the great divide
She was three thousand miles
Of rockin, rollin highway
A million memories long and two lanes wide
Far across the wide missouri
To the ol wyomin line
From the jersey shore to san francisco bay
She was known to all the truckers
As the mighty lincoln highway
But to me, shes still old 30 all the way
Now the interstate goes screamin through the backyard of her life
But it just dont send those shivers down my spine
So before I take that exit
To the highway in the sky
Im gonna take old 30 one more time
She was radiators boilin
In the burnin summer sun
And a blizzard blowin wild across the plains
She was tumbleweeds a-rollin
In the gentle winds of fall
And the lights of old grand island in the rain
She was mud and sand and concrete
Mixed with water made a tears
From the rivers runnin down the great divide
She was three thousand miles
Of rockin, rollin highway
A million memories long and two lanes wide
Now the interstate goes screamin through the backyard of her life
But it just dont send those shivers down my spine
So before I take that exit
To the highway in the sky
Im gonna take old 30 one more time
One more time
(Lyrics curtousy of
www.superlyrics.net)
Craig
