[PRCo] Re: PTM

[Fred Schneider]

Actually most city streets were paved by 1920.  The  country roads were not
paved ... dusty in summer and axle deep in mud in the spring.

Ed recommended to me (and I have it but haven't read it yet) a book on
Dwight Eisenhower's trip coast to coast with a military carivan of trucks
around 1919 ... took months because very little was paved.  By 1930, half
the roads in Pennsylvania were paved and 90 percent of those maintained or
owned by the state were concrete or asphalt.  It all happened in about 10
years, along with a 200 percent increase in registered motor vehicles.

Derrick J Brashear wrote: