Tag: US 50
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Where US 50 begins (or ends, depending on your perspective)
I wax a little too philosophical about US 50 and its ends. I got to see one of them: the eastern end, in Ocean City, MD.
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Half century
Who knew life at 50 could have so much going on? And some of it isn’t exactly pleasant. But one advantage of this age is the resilience to handle it.
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Goodbye wooden bridge
This bridge no longer exists. Longtime readers might remember that I explored all of the old alignments of US 50 across Indiana in 2010. This wooden bridge, built in about 1920, was on an original alignment of that highway in Jennings County, just west of North Vernon, until it was demolished this month. These photos…
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Revisiting the covered bridge at Medora
I hadn’t hit the road since my family’s Route 66 trip in April, leading to considerable pent-up wanderlust. We finished a tough project at work recently, one that wrung me out, so I took a day off to wring out my stress on some twisty road somewhere. I was in the mood for visiting some…
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Revisiting Bedford, on the Dixie Highway in Indiana
I’ve been driving Indiana’s old roads for so many years now that road trips regularly take me through places I’ve been before, where one old road meets another. Two years ago I explored US 50 across Indiana – and what an old-alignment-rich trip it was. When US 50 reaches Bedford, it runs briefly with the old…
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A quiet drive down Old Old US 50 in southwestern Indiana
A one-lane bridge on the original alignment of US 50 in southwestern Indiana.
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A long ago Wabash River crossing on US 50 in Indiana
Main Street and old US 50 in Vincennes ends at the Wabash River today, but until the early 1930s a bridge over the Wabash River connected Vincennes to Illinois. Not only did I find brick pavement in the last block leading up to the river, but I found postcard images of the old bridge. This…
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Visiting Vincennes on US 50 in Indiana
A visit to Vincennes on Indiana’s US 50.
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Root beer and dead ends in Washington
US 50 has a colorful history in terms of realignments across southwestern Indiana. I-64 was originally going to be built along the US 150 corridor from Louisville to about Shoals, where it would pick up US 50 on its way to Illinois. But lobbying got I-64 built farther south, passing closer to Evansville. That didn’t…
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Scenes from US 50 in southwestern Indiana
Things to see on or near US 50 near Shoals, Indiana.
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A bridge that will never inspire an artist or a poet
A bland, nondescript bridge on US 50 in Shoals, Indiana.