Rick Sebak travels across America's first transcontinental highway, checking out the changing landscape along the route from Times Square to San Francisco. This road show incorporates American culture, history, food, family, traditions and the changing way of the automobile.
It doesn’t matter if you’re driving east or west on the Lincoln Highway, if you pass through Franklin Grove, you will want to stop at this historic mid-19th-century building, once owned by a distant cousin of Abraham Lincoln. The route of the Lincoln Highway tried to follow the fastest and most direct route across America from one ocean to the other — and early riders often ceremonially dipped their car tires in the surf at both ends of the journey. When the federal government began giving numbers to highways in the late 1920s, the Lincoln Highway became U.S. 1, then U.S. 30 from Philadelphia to Granger, Wyoming, then a series of other routes through Utah and Nevada and across California to San Francisco.
Wacky Americana: A Ride Along the Lincoln Highway, Tuesday at 8 p.m. on PBS 6.
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