{"id":6864,"date":"2022-05-13T07:58:04","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T14:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org\/blog\/?p=6864"},"modified":"2022-05-13T07:58:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T14:58:04","slug":"there-was-once-a-lincoln-highway-radio-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org\/blog\/2022\/05\/13\/there-was-once-a-lincoln-highway-radio-show\/","title":{"rendered":"There was once a Lincoln Highway radio show"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"615\" height=\"498\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6865\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image.png 615w, https:\/\/www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image-300x243.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Ruth Gordon performing in NBC&#8217;s Saturday morning show &#8220;Lincoln Highway.&#8221; (1940)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On March 16, 1940, NBC Radio introduced a Saturday morning dramatic show called <em>Lincoln Highway<\/em> sponsored by Shinola Polish, which featured stories of life along the route. The show&#8217;s introduction contained an error in noting the Lincoln Highway was identical to US\u00a030 and ended in Portland. Many of the era&#8217;s stars, including Ethel Barrymore, Joe E. Brown, Claude Rains, Sam Levene, Burgess Meredith, and Joan Bennett, made appearances on the show, which had an audience of more than 8 million before it left the air in 1942. A rare surviving recording of the show&#8217;s theme song, &#8220;When You Travel the Great Lincoln Highway,&#8221; survives online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 16, 1940, NBC Radio introduced a Saturday morning dramatic show called Lincoln Highway sponsored by Shinola Polish, which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-todayslincolnhighway","post-archive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6866,"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6864\/revisions\/6866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}