Word: parkway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Merritt Parkway pictures the intersections in a way to give a highway com missioner a nervous breakdown, but the sense of speed, flashing chrome and areas of green peripherally seen, are all there. Palisade, with its sudden dropoff into a blue void, recalls De Kooning's own sense of vertigo when he looked down from cliffside Palisades Park to the Hudson below...
...Automobile Club of Boston reported last night that virtually all main roads from Massachusetts to New Jersey and Pennsylvania are in good condition. The Massachusetts Turnpike is "clear and dry the entire length, with excellent driving conditions." The Merritt Parkway and Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York Turnpikes were said to be completely clear. The Pennsylvania Pike, according to the AAA, is clear except for icy spots at some entrances. Main roads Maine and New Hampshire are reported to have cleared driving lanes and snow-covered but sanded passing lanes. Vermont main routes are still slushy, but well sanded...
...note: The drive to the picturesque Stratford grounds by the Housatonic takes only three hours via the Massachusetts Turnpike and Exit 53 from the Merritt Parkway. There are free outdoor facilities for picnickers; and two girls in period costume sing Elizabethan duets on the grass a half hour before each performance...
...Daily Express reported that on the "road from Boston into New York" (presumably Connecticut's Merritt Parkway) there is a sign that reads: "Last Psychiatrist Before Westchester...
NIGHT TURNPIKE TOLLS at cut rates are boosting traffic and revenues on Florida's 108-mile Sunshine State Parkway from Miami to Fort Pierce. After state slashed tolls for after-dark travel from $2.40 to $1.75 per car, income rose...