Portland Cement

Portland Cement was once used quite often as pavement on our state highways. So what you say? Well it isn't often you can find a stretch of road that is the original Portland Cement of the 1920's. On our recent road trip we did just that, between Reardan and Davenport there is about 10 mile stretch of the old Sunset Highway, that has never been repaved. Again you say so what, I would agree on a certain level, since there are plenty of streets that haven't ever been repaved. But a grand scale, this is about 85 or 90 year old pavement, stretches of road such as this are living museums to what it was once like to drive in America. Also it is thrilling to know that I can drive the same stretch of pavement that my parents and grandparents did and see basically the same scene, this road an example of time not marching on, at least by in the sense of a human time scale. Instead this scene, this road are locked into a different time structure, one of seasons and geography.

As an aside, this makes for a nifty lonely hi-way photo too.

Enjoy

Dan