2012年4月26日 · Using cotton as a key ingredient in road building seems difficult to fathom today but during the 1930s it was all the rage, at least for a short while. Part of the reason was that because in the midst of the Great Depression there was an abundance of three things: Unemployed Americans, cotton and roads that needed to either be built or refurbished.

2020年5月6日 · A look back at America's love affair with cars and the open road, with vintage photos from the 1930s and beyond of the Great American Road Trip.

2019年7月3日 · The Federal Highway Act of 1921 transformed the ORI into the Bureau of Public Roads. It now provided funding for a system of paved two-lane interstate highways to be built by state highway agencies. These road projects got an infusion of labor during the 1930s with Depression-era job-creation programs.

Only 200 miles of Putnam County roads were paved in 1931, but a 1930 count had already indicated that the County had 1 car for every 1.8 residents! To help bring America out of the Depression, President Franklin Roosevelt created a number of public works initiatives collectively known as the "New Deal" to lift the country out of depression.

2022年6月6日 · In addition, the trek of Dust Bowl migrants along the Mother Road during the 1930s continues to evoke vivid images and memories of human suffering. The postwar boom in tourism and transport catapulted Route 66 into its Golden Age but also nudged it closer to extinction, as Oklahoma opted to replace the eventually overburdened highway with a new ...

2017年2月21日 · In the days before handheld and car GPS systems, online mapping and real-time traffic reporting, folks in this fine country used to get around with the help of poster-size pieces of paper called road maps. Take a look at a more than 20 vintage road maps below, apparently preserved for years in car gloveboxes across the nation!

2021年3月2日 · This particular story covers the tale of a family road trip from Akron, Ohio to California in a 1930 Packard Club Sedan taken in the summer of 1936. It is an interesting window into a different time of cross-country travel.

With the explosion of car ownership in the 1920s and 30s came improved highways across America, but if one were to undertake a long-distance journey, like TheNew Yorker’s Morris Markey, you were bound to find a wide range of conditions, from concrete highways to muddy dirt roads. July 25, 1931 cover by Gardner Rea.

2011年2月13日 · Fine dust was later put between the stone. Dust became a major problem when motorised vehicles arrived on the scene and the surface stone was then mixed with tar, ergo the tar-macaddam road. I think these would have been found in country areas, whereas the very expensive cobbled roads were more likely in towns and cities.

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