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Post by Randy on Mar 29, 2011 11:41:15 GMT -5
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Post by nikkortorokkor on Mar 29, 2011 15:48:30 GMT -5
Quite a find; thanks for posting.
The 1959 conditions in Iowa are similar to those which we still experience in NZ.
20/20 hindsight is a wonderful thing, but it is still sad to see that, thanks in part to the system of Interstates and freeways, many of the 'hazards' associated with a busy city centre have disappeared in the small towns along the old US30. I used Google Street View to do the same drive through of Ogden IA, and it appears to be a shadow of the flourishing business district of 1959. For most Ogden residents, I suspect, it is too easy to go shop & do business 10 miles away at a mall in Boone.
Michael.
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Post by tsiya on Apr 1, 2011 23:17:12 GMT -5
If I could go back to 1959 I wouldn't hesitate an instant. "Progress" has been ruinous to the local lifestyle here and any financial gains are offset by increased costs.
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Post by mickeyobe on Apr 2, 2011 4:43:45 GMT -5
Randy,
Thanks for that film. I have watched it twice so far.
Those are the kinds of roads and highways upon which I spent most of my driving life driving.
Now we have freeways which, in the Toronto area, may have as many as 18 lanes of often immobile automobiles.
Whenever possible I still seek those old roads to get me where I am going.
The small towns and villages are full of humanity and life and fascinating places to see and experience that surpass the Freeways' bypass.
It's not that I fear the superhighways.
I fear the drivers.
Mickey
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Post by Randy on Apr 2, 2011 11:50:36 GMT -5
You and me both Mickey. I've seen people eating cereal with a bowl and spoon driving down a freeway.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2011 14:55:18 GMT -5
Highway 30 once was the major national highway through our area before the Interstate was build. In 1956 I came through Iowa on U.S. 30 with my parents. Went all the way to New York (via Michigan and Canada) in a 1955 36 HP Volkswagen. It was a two lane road in those days and if you were behind a truck when it got to a hilly portion, you stayed behind the truck until it pulled off or the road flattened out again. The thing I loved about those days is when you traveled every town had its unique stores and flavor. Nowadays Iowa City, Iowa is pretty much like Nampa, Idaho--same Walmarts, same McDonalds, Same KFC, etc.
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Post by mickeyobe on Apr 2, 2011 20:58:00 GMT -5
It was a two lane road in those days and if you were behind a truck when it got to a hilly portion, you stayed behind the truck until it pulled off or the road flattened out again. Wayne, Much of the Trans Canada highway in Northern Ontario is still like that but the trucks usually travel faster than the cars and are inveterate tailgaters. Being passed on a rainy day by a convoy of from three to eight semis, nose to tail like circus elephants, is an experience one would like to forget but never can. Mickey  |
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