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Article: Along the Father Road: 'Lincoln Highway' still has its fans
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- August 21, 2007
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IF YOU THINK of a classic American highway, the words "Route 66"
spring to your lips almost automatically. Yet another road -- an
older road, a longer road, and a historic road much more important
to Northern California -- has gotten the short end of the dipstick
for too many years.
And as far as Michael Wallis and other diehard Lincoln Highway
fans are concerned, the Lincoln Highway -- which stretches from New
York's Broadway to San Francisco's Golden Gate -- has been asphalt's
ugly stepsister for far too long.
To remedy this, Wallis not only wrote a book about the highway,
but also took a monthlong Lincoln Highway road trip to promote the
project, a collaboration with photographer ...