I have discovered several videos on YouTube that pertain to old highways or include old highways in them. One I just recently discovered is called "The Bus Driver". It is an old Encyclopedia Brittanica film from 1945 that chronicles a bus trip between New York City and Pittsburgh.
Anybody who is a baby boomer like myself probably remembers those old black and white Britannica films from their grade school school days. But I digress. This video has some interesting views of the roadways in NJ and PA, including some views of the very early Pennsylvania Turnpike. I have attached a link below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgun6pcVoEE
Has anybody found some other similar videos on YouTube or other sources that they could link? I remember that Iowa video about US 30 that somebody posted earlier this year.
The following is a favorite on my site's YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/pahighways) page. It is footage of a westbound trip on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in 1953 but edited to show only the then five tunnels between the Blue Mountain and Breezewood interchanges.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOP_QoizcWc
Quote from: RoadWarrior56 on June 08, 2011, 06:27:40 PM
I have discovered several videos on YouTube that pertain to old highways or include old highways in them. One I just recently discovered is called "The Bus Driver". It is an old Encyclopedia Brittanica film from 1945 that chronicles a bus trip between New York City and Pittsburgh.
Anybody who is a baby boomer like myself probably remembers those old black and white Britannica films from their grade school school days. But I digress. This video has some interesting views of the roadways in NJ and PA, including some views of the very early Pennsylvania Turnpike. I have attached a link below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgun6pcVoEE
Has anybody found some other similar videos on YouTube or other sources that they could link? I remember that Iowa video about US 30 that somebody posted earlier this year.
The bridges at 6:20 are the the Susquehanna River Bridges at Harrisburg:
Market Street Bridge: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dougtone/5679497827/in/set-72157623004728880
Railroad bridge: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dougtone/5680056516/in/set-72157623004728880