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    Gone with the Fins
    Gone with the Fins
    Gone with the Fins
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    Gone with the Fins

    By David Rucker

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    A look at the highways/trails of the United States of the early 20th century. And of the historical development of the complimentary components All thirty seven of the transcontinental road/trails listed in the 1925 edition of Clason's "Touring Atlas" are identified. In 1925 the author's father drove his parents, sister and brother, round trip from Seattle to Rochester, MN. They traveled in a 1924 Oldsmobile open touring car. With the exception of three pictures and a few short shared memories, No details other remain. The author became curious. What was travel like for early day motorists? Road conditions, routes, eating, sleeping, and the like. I wanted to learn what I could. I read about early road construction, the evolution of the highway routes, and of the cars and services from the era. I purchased a 1925 Chrysler open touring car and drove it around. I believe my family followed the Sunset Highway over Snoqualmie Pass, took the ferry across the Columbia River at Vantage, and then followed the Yellow and Black Highway route. The numbering of highways began in 1926.
    My wife and I decided to explore one of those old highway routes. We chose the Lee Highway which runs from Washington D.C. to our home in California. The specific route it followed from Washington D.C. to the Pacific Coast is included. As is also information about the Sunset Highway included. I decided to publish my findings for others who may have interest. Happy Trails. David

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDavid Rucker
    Release dateDec 12, 2013
    ISBN9781310414763
    Gone with the Fins
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    David Rucker

    While day-caring my grandchildren, I observed that more books for the tween-er ages would be really nice. I challenged myself to create some. I created plot-lines of friendships, time travel, history, and science. Please enjoy my literary efforts, and do let others know how I did in the Reader's Evaluation sections.The four "Tales In Time" books found their way to completion over several years. They could well have been contained under one cover. I admire prolific writers, but I must confess to not being so endowed. A methodical slowpoke if you will.The "College Transfer Guide" results from my years as a College Admission Officer and transfer counselor.The "Gone With the Fins" book was inspired by my curiosity of the stories my father told of his family's 1925 cross-country road trip.David

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      Book preview

      Gone with the Fins - David Rucker

      Gone With the Fins

      Published by David Rucker at Smashwords

      Copyright 2013 David Rucker

      This ebook is for your personal enjoyment. Your respectfulness in purchasing additional copies as desired is appreciated.

      ***Table Of Contents***

      Chapter 1 - About Gone With The Fins

      Chapter 2 - Trails Across The Land

      Chapter 3 - Before The Motor Car

      Chapter 4 - Enter The Motor Car

      Chapter 5 - Modern Rurality

      Chapter 6 - Hershey - Where Rubber Meets The Pavement

      Chapter 7 - The Lee Trail

      Chapter 8 - Looking Back

      Chapter 9 - Interesting References

      Chapter 1 - About Gone With The Fins

      Trash or Treasure

      Wobbly fence posts, grain elevators, rusty automobile bodies, derelict windmills, rotting pier timbers, and all such abandoned things. Blight upon the land?

      Stonehenge, cliff dwellings, Grecian urns, ancient scrolls, Roman temples, and the like. Artful archeology?

      The abandoned remnants of civilizations on the move. Our Velveteen Rabbits. A concept beautifully portrayed by Margery Williams in her book, and for children no less.

      At what point may we change our labels from trash to treasure? From blight to art?. 1000 years distant?? 500?? 50??

      Earth’s civilizations have been constantly on the move. Changing since the beginning of time. Change is our norm. Discoveries and insights most often precipitated the changes. The discoveries of the gifts hidden in our universe. Waiting for us to discover. Fire, metal, crop rotation, the Clovis style arrowhead, gun powder, the wheel, ice cream, the printing press, the compass, telescope and sextant, defining gravity, the refrigerator, airplanes, button holes, atomic energy. Every discovery precipitated change. Some miniscule. Some profound. But each contributed. Building upon the others. The discoveries made by our human ancestral line, has been like the finding of the hidden decorated eggs on Easter morning. What hidden gifts await? What is next? And when?

      The clock of change is running faster. The rate of change is increasing. I look forward to what awaits discovery. And, to all the discarded remnants of bygone human discovery, I stand in respectful awe. Art?? Treasure?? Trash?? I think I am inclined to want to apply category labels cautiously. I think things belong mostly to the world of art and treasure. Not the world of trash. Art serves as a portal to our sensory side. The right side of the brain. Recently rusted abandoned objects serve equally as right side brain portals as do the hieroglyphics of ancient rock carvings.

      Gasoline, together with its best partner the internal combustion engine, are one of the most profound discoveries to date. And very recent. So recent in fact, that I think most people have not placed them in proper historical perspective yet. Elements of their beginnings can be seen taking their first infant steps in the mid 1700s. Combined with steam power, a huge change resulted. Mobile machines could now be powered by means from other than from that of the brute force of animals and humans. It was in all aspects, a discovery so profound that it radically changed all of the human dynamic. The era of change it precipitated is just coming to a conclusion in the early 21st century. The remaining artifacts of that era, often seen dotting our landscapes, are the art of that era. As profound as the impact from that revolution has been, scarcely has the dust

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