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Daily Photo Diary of the
2003 Lincoln
Highway Tour |
| Welcome to this repost
of TRAACA's Daily Web coverage of the 2003 Lincoln Highway 75th Anniversary
Tour. If you were a participant, you will find a lot of familiar faces
and sites. If not, then you will get a good idea of the tremendous
adventure we undertook and terrific people who went along!
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| June 20, 2013 - And They're OFF! 2013
Lincoln Highway Tour Participants from TRAACA - Actually, we always
knew they were a little 'off,' but this just makes it official.
Our region has quite a contingent on this year's event. From left
to right are: Jere and Carol Avenson (1954 Packard); Leslie McGinn and
Tony Scarpelli (front) (1956 Chrysler); Dick and Holly Chipchak (back)
(Modern); Bob Scott (with Sophie); Vicki and John Peters (1959 Cadillac;
John and Janet Woolfitt (front, with Bob Woolfitt), Ken Talley (with Sophie) (back), Wes
Neal (1966 Mustang), Bill Wilcox (with Sophie) and Bob Woolfitt (1934
Packard). More
details soon! |
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| Day 0 - New York and the Starting Point. The group
getting ready to start off on Friday and the Lincoln Highway Association
Kick-Off Dinner.(Photos by Wes Neal) |
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| Day 1, June 22 - Then and Now (Photos by John Peters and Bob
Stein) - While the oldest member of the 2003 Lincoln Highway
Tour (Bernie Queneau) did not look much different at 101, the youngest
member, Brian Cassler, sure changed a lot from 7 to 17!
Well, he got bigger, anyway. Great kid in either time frame. |
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Day 4, June 25 (Post by John Peters - photos
by John Peters and Wes Neal) –
The day began with the need to replace the ignition coil on Bill
Wilcox’s 1932 Packard. Jere Avenson had a spare. Ken Talley and
Bob Woolfitt accomplished the task while several members of the
traveling party provided moral support and advice.
Delayed a bit getting on the road, our first
stop was the “World’s Largest Teapot” in Chester, West Virginia,
where our cars made up an impromptu car show at the gas station
across the street. On our way to the Newell Bridge across the Ohio
River, Wendy and John O’Conner found an original Lincoln Highway
post in a front yard.
Lunch was at the Steel Trolley Diner in
Lisbon, Ohio where Deputy Barney Fife (Todd Beckett) pulled John
O’Connor over for some traffic offense. On our way out of Lisbon we
found a stretch of original brick Lincoln Highway.
Perhaps the best stop of the day was at the
Spread Eagle Tavern in Hanoverton, Ohio where Bill Wilcox and Dick
Chipchak enjoyed a cool one on this very humid day with heavy, at
times, thunder storms.
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| Day 5, June 26 (Photos by John Peters) |
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| Day 9 - June 30 - Celebration in Kearny Nebraska - 130
antique and modern cars, lined up by age, entered Kearney, Nebraska with
a police and motorcycle escort to kick off the two-day Lincoln Highway
Centennial Celebration. The cars made up the East and West auto tours
which departed New York City June 22 and San Francisco June 23. The
parade was a terrific culmination for participants of the two auto tours
who were greeted by thousands lining the streets of Kearney.
101 year-old Bernie Queneau and wife Esther, of Pittsburgh, Pa., were
grand marshals of the parade in Kearney. Bernie was one of the Boy
Scouts who placed Lincoln Highway posts at mile intervals across the
country in 1928. They were both on the 2003 Lincoln Highway tour. |
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| Here are a couple pix from the Heinz History Center (museum) in
Pittsburgh, taken by another guy on the tour. |
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| Lunch stop at the shoe house, we also had a tour of the house. (From
Ken Talley) |
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Tour day one, time square around 8:00am Sunday. We did not stop as
we did on the 2003 tour just a "drive by" - (From Ken Talley)
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Nebraska native Bill Wilcox presents Bob Woolfitt with a bit of
medicinal weed which grows wild in the state. At Kearney, Nebr. (From
Bill Wilcox)
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