A Blog Along The Lincoln Highway

Let’s hear it for Jay Leno! He mentioned A RIDE ALONG THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY last night near the end of his monologue on the TONIGHT SHOW. Said it was a good show! Tried to make some lame joke about men using that phrase as a euphemistic phrase for some sexual shenanigans. […]

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Yes. The program aired last night. I watched it in my living room with my mother Peg who paid close attention and never dozed. That’s a good sign.
Many people left comments at the bottom of “Saturday night at the Car Store” and you can read them there. Or you can leave […]

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Our finished program, the final edit with final sound mix, the high-res-ed show with captions for the hearing-impaired, the complete 56-minute-and-46-second HD master tape has been at PBS for a month.  We sent it to our trusty post-production house called Pillar To Post in Virginia on September 17 if I remember correctly.    And yet […]

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We wrestled our program into the standard PBS hour-length last night.  Fifty-six minutes and forty-six seconds.   I wish we could have made a 90 minute program or a 120.  Many of our stories will premiere on the web.  Keep checking our site for pieces of the original program.  We’ll try to get some up soon.
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It’s sometimes difficult to get a cameraman to leave a location. Times Square is one of those locations. There’s so much going on, so many people, so much dancing light and neon, maybe we should shoot forever.
After an hour or so more of post-lunchtime shooting, we decide to retrieve our van from the […]

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Who am I trying to fool? After we leave the Lincoln Motor Court, we stop for a sandwich at the Jean Bonnet Tavern just a mile or two east of the cottages. Bob and Glenn both get the crabcake sandwich (recommended by Carissa) and I get soup and fried oysters. When we walk back to […]

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We start the day at our motel-hotel in Harrison, New Jersey, knowing that Manhattan is just a short drive, but we don’t know what traffic will be like, so we try to leave by 7:30 AM. We actually pull out of the parking lot at 7:45. We find the New Jersey Turnpike and follow the […]

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We finally arrive at the Lincoln Motor Court in Mann’s Choice, Pennsylvania, around 3:30, maybe 3:45. If the Altizer Family tells us we are just too late, Go away! and Never come back! I understand. But they have been patient. They are saints. They actually seem excited that we’re here. I called on my cell […]

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It’s hard to follow any highway in New Jersey. Roads just don’t seem to be very well marked. The other night we got lost in Elizabeth as we headed north along 27, and now we’re leaving our hotel in Harrison with resolve to be vigilant, to watch for turns, to follow our maps, to read […]

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So, I’m not really sure what to do about Philadelphia, if anything, and when I’m talking to Brian he tells me about this old abandoned section of Old Lincoln Highway in Northern Philadelphia. It’s behind the Lincoln Motel, and it includes an ancient stone bridge that we decide to go and see.

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