June 25th, 2017: Zero Milestone

[Snakeadelic]

In the 1920s the American highway & freeway system was nothing like we've grown used to a hundred years later. Hawaii was still decades from statehood, although Missouri and such were no longer still considered the Wild West. Back in the 20s, they probably thought places like LA, San Diego, San Francisco, and Seattle were going to remain provincial mudholes.

Took me until my early 30s to figure out how we number our highway exits--the whole "numbers go up as you go north on odd-numbered roads like Interstate 5, east on even-numbered roads like Interstates 2, 84, and 90."

And "what they're having" was probably either boiled (solid food) or strained through the nearest available cloth of the right weave (liquids). Jazz was barely legal, premature babies in incubators were on display at Coney Island, and it was a bit early, iirc from other entries about Americans and travel, for the hardcore promotion of family travel as a hobby. That came with some big freeway improvement act, I think after WW2.

[burns334]

"Took me until my early 30s to figure out how we number our highway exits--the whole "numbers go up as you go north on odd-numbered roads like Interstate 5, east on even-numbered roads like Interstates 2, 84, and 90."

Well I never heard that before, ie 95 (NJTPK) thru NJ goes up in numbers as you go toward the GWB, seems to work