A Blog Along The Lincoln Highway

Join the hunt for the last concrete marker of the Lincoln Highway.

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OK. We drive the last few blocks of California Street, heading directly west, (starting to smell the Pacific?) counting the cross streets till we get to 32nd Avenue. It’s a stately and impressive residential neighborhood. And 32nd makes a T when it gets to El Camino del Mar. We turn left and immediately see the [...]

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Watch the video as the crew finally arrives at the Western Terminus.

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We drive slowly uphill into Lincoln Park. The twilight is fading fast. It’s misty and foggy. We see people playing golf, walking in the park, we assume we’ll drive up to the top of this hill and easily find the concrete marker that proclaims this as the official end of the Lincoln Highway. The Terminus. [...]

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We had booked rooms for tonight in the Pacific Heights Inn, a convenient non-chain old-style motel on Union Street where we’d stayed in San Francisco twelve years ago while making our first two PBS programs: “An Ice Cream Show” and “Shore Things.” Bob had written it down because it was so unusual to find such [...]

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