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A Strange Clairvoyance
April 25, 2003
Dear Friends,
As you can see,
Over the years,
At first,
After a while you begin to think,
As I studied more about the Lincoln Highway
"The Founding Fathers",
Many times it was just a comment here
One of the best examples
I liken it to the Gettysburg Address.
It is short and sweet and yet it pretty much says it all.
"The evolution of this memorial has begun.
While I always had a hutch,
If you look back at the timeline of events
Get this,
Then they organized,
There is simply nothing like it in American History...
Even though I've been very successful,
Hell, seven years and they were almost done!!
Since arriving in California on the 4th of July,
That is of course one of the stated goals of
The idea being to make the information
I started with all the magazine articles
At first there were only a few,
Eventually,
Let's see do I have that one...
The fruits of that labor
It is the most complete listing of
At some point,
Let me know what you think...
In any event,
Think that didn't take awhile to write.
OK, so now back to the story...
Having been pretty successful with the articles,
Case in point,
One day at the Oakland Public Library,
They have one of the best collections of
True to form...they had it.
They were quite good and featured here-to-fore unknown
Having seen hundreds of them by now,
I quickly scanned the articles
The first one started out
Then I stopped dead in my tracks.
I couldn't believe it...there is was.
"The Smoking Gun."
Apparently,
Newton A. Fuessle
Warmest Regards,
Since November 9, 2003
a strange pattern seems to be developing.
it has been one unending string of events after another.
I didn't think much about it,
but they just kept coming and coming and coming...
well maybe there's something to it,
I noticed patterns there as well.
of the Lincoln Highway that is,
seemed to be of the same mindset.
and a comment there,
but after a while they began to add up.
is this by Henry B. Joy written in 1914.
In loving tribute it will be carried,
as time passes,
to its ultimate ideal."
I could never produce the "Smoking Gun".
and the shear volume of work that was accomplished,
it is nothing short of a Miracle!
they dreamed it up in September of 1912,
and had over 4 million dollars in pledges by early 1913.
set up an office,
hired a staff,
selected State Consuls,
printed membership certificates,
scouted the route at least twice by July,
made a pitch to the Nation's Governors in late August,
set the route,
had 125,000 flyers,maps and posters printed,
addressed and mailed by September 14th,
then turned around and held a nationwide
dedication ceremony to rival the best Hollywood
has to offer a little over a month later.
It boggles the mind.
it's been 7 years now
and we're still in the beginning phases
and I'm just following their script
and don't have to dream any of it up.
I've been hitting the books every day
trying to find every available scrap of information
on the Lincoln Highway.
The Lincoln Highway National Museum & Archives.
easily available
for those so inclined.
while looking for clues that might give additional insight
beyond the norm into how this all happened.
but that soon grew into literally hundreds.
I had to catalog them to keep from going crazy.
can be seen on the following web page.
Lincoln Highway Articles
available anywhere in the World!
think I'll break it up again,
actual Magazine articles on one page
and Trade Magazine articles on another.
there are over 9400 lines of code.
there were however a few stragglers
I'd been unable to track down.
a 3 part series in
Travel Magazine.
I thought what the heck,
I'll give it a shot.
early magazines I've found anywhere,
and best of all they're easy to work with.
maps and photographs from one of Henry Joy's
many trips across the Lincoln.
they were pretty much all the same,
with a few variations.
looking for anything new or exciting.
pretty much as your normal travel piece.
I wasn't the ONLY one who had noticed!!!
Travel Magazine
February 1915
Page 26.
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