lincoln highway revisited

they say the more things change the more they stay the same. recently one day while driving through our new neighborhood i spotted this sign around the corner from our house. it's a lincoln highway marker showing that our town once hosted part of the original 1913 alignment. traveling west from as far away as times square, nyc this would have been the last stretch before loading a ferry and crossing the bay into san francisco. funny because our old home also paralleled the lincoln as part of the later alignment. a section referred by george wyman, the first man to cross the continent by motorcycle in 1903 as follows "the pastoral aspect of the sheep country gradually gave way to a more rugged landscape, huge boulders dotting the earth and suggesting the approach to the sierras. at rocklin the lower foothills are encountered: the stone beneath the surface of the ground makes a firm roadbed and affords stretches of excellent goings" it seems wherever we go we are in proximity of what they used to call "america's main street".