Yesterday, Liz and I celebrated out 48th wedding anniversary at Donovan's Reef on Twin Lakes, Wisconsin. We had been planning on going to Galena, Illinois, where we had gone for our honeymoon in 1973. But, with all this flareup with the virus, we canceled plans to do it.
We were married in DeKalb, Illinois, on August 25, 1973. We had both just graduated from Northern Illinois University there in May,
The whole time we were going there, we often went to places (specially those of the bar sort) on the main road through town which was called the Lincoln Highway. At the time, that name was just the name of another street. We had no idea of its importance of it in U.S. transportation history. Hey, it was the first American transcontinental highway and went from New York City to San Francisco.
As a matter of fact, we didn't know its importance all the way up to 2002, when we "discovered" Route 66 and the fun of driving those old roads.
During our college student years and afterwards as alumni, we often did what students referred to as the "Lincoln Crawl." This would be to hit a lot of bars along this Lincoln Highway street. Many of our college bars were on Lincoln.
And, that would include such as The Uprising, Shamrock, Andy's, McCabe's, Candle Light and Sullivan's.
And, back then you didn't have to worry much about the police and DUIs. It just wasn't done like it is today.
To Say the Least, We Sure Partied on the Lincoln Highway. --RoadDog
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