New and Old #41

Friday roundup and commentary

Lost Highway, Washington City Paper, Eddie Dean, September 27, 1996

Last week’s installment of this series also began with a piece like this, about U.S. Route 1 in Maryland. This article is about the same highway in Virginia, in the stretch south of D.C. This is a whole genre, an article that takes the uniquely American assemblage of pre-war and early po…