A TRIP DOWN
Memory Lane LINCOLN HIGHWAY EXPERIENCE In the early 1900s, automobile travel skyrocketed. However, most roads, with the exception of city streets, were unsuitable to drive on, leading to the creation of the Lincoln Highway in 1913. The route was the first transcontinental highway in the United States. Today, it stretches from New York City’s Times Square to
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San Francisco, with 70 miles weaving through Pennsylvania's Laurel Highlands.
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A beautiful stone house that was once a stagecoach stop on the Lincoln Highway in Latrobe is now home to the Lincoln Highway Experience. The interactive museum allows visitors to travel back in time and learn about this historic road and the interesting sights along the way.
Turnpike exit in Irwin to serve truck drivers and tourists. In its heyday, the diner featured high-end details such as solid mahogany, marble, porcelain, copper, pocket doors and leather stools and cushions. It makes sense why it was described as the "Cadillac of diners.”
In 2018, the Lincoln Highway Experience introduced two new exhibit rooms in the historic building, as well as a new expansion that is now home to original retro memorabilia, such as the original Serro’s Diner.
After 20 years of service, the diner was sold and moved twice. In 2003, the Senator John Heinz History Center donated the diner to the Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor, who had the diner meticulously restored before installing it in the Lincoln Highway Experience.
What fun would a road trip be without great food? At the end of the 19th century, lunch wagons, similar to present-day food trucks, made way for diners. Serro’s Diner, measuring roughly the size of a train car, was purchased by the Serro brothers in 1938, who intentionally placed the diner at the new Pennsylvania
The diner is certainly a beauty, but visitors can do more than just marvel at it. After a tour of the museum, guests are invited to take a seat in the diner and enjoy a slice of pie and a cup of coffee; both treats are included in the cost of admission.
