song and a tv show. remembering route 66. and the little towns that all but disappeared when it was replaced by the big interstate. all straight ahead tonight on a second look. good evening i m julie haener and this is a second look. these days we pretty much take the interstate highway system for granted. you can drive across the country nonstop on broad well paveed roads. and take your time and stop to eat and sleep all along the way. but a century ago when the automobile was young there was no central route until someone decided to create one in 1913. they would call it the lincoln highway and it would stretch in new york to san francisco. a journey that could be completed in 40 days, but only if you could hit the top speed of 18 miles per hour. do you know what that l there stands for? it stands for everything we have come to stand for. in this nation of highways, the lincoln highway came first. it was a wildly audacious idea of 1913 to widen and straighten and pave a