ON THE ROAD IN 1962 Time for Roadtrip-’62 ™ to travel highway US-36 as we count down the US-numbered routes. Actually, I’m counting up, but whatever. Highway US-36 currently runs about 1414 miles from Uhrichsville, Ohio to Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. It approximates the route of the old Pikes Peak Ocean To Ocean Highway…

MORE 1962 FUN & HISTORY This week, Roadtrip-’62 ™ is doing something truly different. I’ve got a few games you can play to pass the time while on the road! When I was young, back in 1962, my brothers and I used to play various games in the car to keep us occupied. My favorite…

1962 Local News & History As 1962 opened I was 9 years old and in third grade. By the end of the year I was 10 and in fourth grade. What do I remember of school that year? Reading, writing and arithmetic, surely, but I also recall recess, walking to school, and my first crush…

ON THE ROAD IN 1962 As I mentioned on another reading Roadtrip-’62 ™ journey, my favorite thing to do in Chicago is to go directly downtown, park in the underground Grant Park garage and walk the city. In 1962, a bunch of US-numbered routes passed by or began near that point: US-12, US-14, US-30ALT, US-41…

1962 Consumer Products and Retail History I know I’ve been away for a long time, but as is often the story for internet sites, my real world life got in the way. Here’s a very big THANK YOU to all of you who kept reading Roadtrip-’62 ™ for the past couple of months. I hope you’ve…

Favorite Places on a US-33 Roadtrip Continuing the US-numbered highways in order, today Roadtrip-’62 ™ should look at US-32. But there was no US-32 by 1962! It once existed and a bit of its story is at a page about several defunct highway numbers. We traveled most of that old route as Days 19–24 of our…

Fun in the Children’s Section of a 1962 Library No travel this week, instead Roadtrip-’62 ™ will be staying indoors. Imagine you’re a kid and it’s a cold, rainy day, so let’s play with our toys! I’ve already talked about toy guns, card games, and candy that we might have had in 1962. Today I’ll review some children’s books…

Sea to Inland Sea…Redux Today’s mini-trip on a US-numbered highway takes Roadtrip-’62 ™ to US-31, which currently runs 1280 miles from just south of Mackinaw City, Michigan to Spanish Fort, Alabama. In 1962, it was a little longer on both ends. The north end went to the Mackinac Bridge and before 1957, it went…

ON THE ROAD IN 1962 This week, Roadtrip-’62 ™ travels US-30 and the Lincoln Highway. Route US-30 is the third longest US-numbered route, after US-20 and US-6. It runs 3073 miles from Atlantic City, New Jersey to Astoria, Oregon: ocean to ocean. While the east end has always been in Atlantic City, the west end…