# Map with both Lincoln Hwy & Rte 66 **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 2, 2016, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/map-with-both-lincoln-hwy-rte-66/744928 "2016-02-02T05:55:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![bob\_2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_2/32/3341_2.png) [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2016, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/map-with-both-lincoln-hwy-rte-66/744928/21 "2016-02-03T16:29:30Z")
Fascinating - 66 gets all the publicity but The lincoln Highway is far more interesting. ---
**Author:** ![yabob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yabob/32/2821_2.png) [@yabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yabob)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2016, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/map-with-both-lincoln-hwy-rte-66/744928/22 "2016-02-03T16:34:12Z")
> [@bob\_2](#): > > Fascinating - 66 gets all the publicity but The lincoln Highway is far more interesting. “Get your kicks on the Lincoln Highway” doesn’t rhyme. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2016, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/map-with-both-lincoln-hwy-rte-66/744928/23 "2016-02-03T16:34:33Z")
> [@bob\_2](#): > > Fascinating - 66 gets all the publicity but The lincoln Highway is far more interesting. Yes indeed. I liked that a young Ike was part of the original Army convoy that took so long to cross the US. Later, in Germany during WWII, Ike saw the autobahn and thought back to his experience on trailblazing the Lincoln Highway, ane these inspired the Interstate Highway act he signed. I believe that now, China has recently laid more superhighway miles than any other country. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2016, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/map-with-both-lincoln-hwy-rte-66/744928/24 "2016-02-03T17:51:10Z")
> [@yabob](#): > > “Get your kicks on the Lincoln Highway” doesn’t rhyme. “Go slinkin’ by day, on the Lincoln Highway…” I won’t quit my day job. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Downtown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Mr\_Downtown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Downtown)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2016, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/map-with-both-lincoln-hwy-rte-66/744928/25 "2016-02-04T04:49:26Z")
Some of you may be interested in Drake Hokanson’s book _[The Lincoln Highway: Main Street Across America.](http://www.amazon.com/The-Lincoln-Highway-Street-America/dp/0877456763)_ ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Downtown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Mr\_Downtown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Downtown)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2016, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/map-with-both-lincoln-hwy-rte-66/744928/26 "2016-02-04T04:53:53Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > a young Ike was part of the original Army convoy that took so long to cross the US. Later, in Germany during WWII, Ike saw the autobahn and thought back to his experience on trailblazing the Lincoln Highway, ane these inspired the Interstate Highway act he signed. It’s a common mistake to glide from Eisenhower’s 1919 convoy to his viewing of German autobahnen to the last-minute insertion of “and Defense Highways” into the congressional bill title to the blue signs that went up in 1991, making the Interstate Highways a simple “great man” story. As Earl Swift notes in _The Big Roads,_ p. 157: “When Dwight Eisenhower took office in January 1953, the Interstate Highway System had officially existed for more than eight years…He entered the Oval Office professing an interest in building ‘a network of modern roads’… He didn’t know that the executive and legislative branches had already worked out the details of the network he sought.” Neither Eisenhower nor any member of his administration did any of the heavy lifting in getting past the congressional impasse during the three-year gestation period of the 1956 Act. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2016, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/map-with-both-lincoln-hwy-rte-66/744928/27 "2016-02-07T16:19:17Z")
> [@Gary\_T](#): > > “Go slinkin’ by day, on the Lincoln Highway…” > > I won’t quit my day job. 🙂 I took a trip through PA and OH 2 summers ago, a stretch of it turned out to be on the historic Lincoln Highway with buildings and old barns painted with murals like this: [![](https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3841/14639563862_3d4b50dc34_h.jpg) ](https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3841/14639563862_3d4b50dc34_h.jpg) [![](https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5560/14453331350_c32a0937fb_h.jpg) ](https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5560/14453331350_c32a0937fb_h.jpg) _“Times Square in the east, Golden Gate in the west, For cross country travel, It was the best. Lincolnway!”_ You were expecting maybe Burma Shave? ---
**Author:** ![yabob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yabob/32/2821_2.png) [@yabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yabob)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2016, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/map-with-both-lincoln-hwy-rte-66/744928/28 "2016-02-07T17:21:36Z")
OK, if we must: If you’re ever going coast to coast Travel my way, take the highway, whose length’s the most. Go all the way on the Lincoln Highway. It winds from the Apple to the Bay. More than 3000 miles all the way, Go all the way on the Lincoln Highway. … Take your pick on rhyming the cities. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/map-with-both-lincoln-hwy-rte-66/744928.md?page=1)