The American Highway: The History and Culture of Roads in the United States

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McFarland, 1 janv. 2000 - 229 pages
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When the automobile first made long-distance travel practical for the average American, a dramatic change began in the country's physical and cultural landscape. Road design and construction were challenged to keep pace with the automobile's rapidly advancing capabilities and number. And as real mobility sank into the popular consciousness, the way of life of Americans changed forever.
This spectacularly illustrated history traces the transformation of America's roads from rutted wagon trails into ever smoother, faster and safer highways. Along with the sweat and ingenuity of increasingly ambitious construction, it explores the new roadside culture that sprang up to greet a society on the move. Places to eat, sleep, refuel, and see sights became as much a part of the highway travel experience as the road itself, and the histories of the most familiar roadside businesses are recounted here. More than 300 historical photographs provide fascinating documentation.
 

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A St. Paul lawyer, Kaszynski tracks a story of the persistent demands by individuals to travel, the pressure for roads by automobile manufacturers, the need for roadside servicesDand more. Leaving no ... Consulter l'avis complet

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The Interstate Era 19702000
190
The Future
206
Notes
219
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Page 189 - January 1, 1968, such junkyards shall be screened by natural objects, plantings, fences, or other appropriate means so as not to be visible from the main traveled way of the system, or shall be removed from sight. <d) The term "junk...
Page 166 - System be completed as nearly as practicable over a thirteen-year period and that the entire System in all the States be brought to simultaneous completion. Because of its primary importance to the national defense, the name of such system is hereby changed to the "National System of Interstate and Defense Highways.
Page 19 - Up until this time, many scholars and others believed that the federal government did not have the power under the Constitution to regulate or construct highways. There was no federal income tax at the time, and many advocates of states' rights were suspicious of any expansion of federal power.
Page 166 - It is hereby declared to be essential to the national interest to provide for the early completion of the "National System of Interstate Highways", as authorized and designated in accordance with section 7 of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1944 (58 Stat.
Page 221 - Abstract of the United States, Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. The Golden Age (1946-1969) 160.
Page 60 - Agriculture to appoint a joint board to be composed of members of the Bureau of Public Roads and of the State highway departments to cooperate in formulating and promulgating a system of numbering and marking the highways of interstate character.
Page 38 - Fisher, a wealthy automobile manufacturer, plotted his own transcontinental route from Times Square in New York City to Lincoln Park in San Francisco.
Page 91 - Just as Near— To Highway 16 and 14— Free Ice Water— Wall Drug.
Page 19 - They are simply the means and instrumentalities of commerce, and the power of Congress to regulate commerce carries with it power over all the means and instrumentalities by which commerce is carried on.
Page 30 - The faculty, the art, the habit, of road building marks in a nation those solid, stable qualities which tell for permanent greatness. Merely from the standpoint of historic analogy we should have a right to ask that this people which has tamed a continent, which has built up a country with a continent for its base, which boasts itself, with truth, as the mightiest Republic that the world has ever seen...

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Kaszynski is a writer, researcher, and photographer.

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