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Let me take you on a journey through the many stroads of Lower Bucks County, PA.
First up is Buisiness Route 1, better known locally as Lincoln Highway. Yes, that Lincoln Highway.
Originally a 2 lane road as far back as 1964, my dad says he remembers waiting there for the PTC bus ferrying in his grandparents from North Philly on a Sunday and there being no cars. Quite the contrast.
Lincoln Highway is one of the most important commercial districts in Bucks, home not just to shittons of commercial, car dealer hells and it's first indoor mall (the Oxford Valley Mall was unironically the largest in the world when it was built), but also Sesame Place, the first and only Sesame Street-themed amusement park in the world. Conveniently for tourists adjacent is the tallest building in Bucks County, the Sheraton Hotel.
In pic-related you can see the intersection which in the past had been the center of the village of Oxford Valley, a name now only locally associated with nearby the mall.
The used car dealership to the left across the stroad occupies the only remaining building from the Silver Star airfield which itself was bought up to construct the mall. You can also see the Sheraton standing in all its beige grandeur. During a nasty snowstorm in 2011, they price-gouged all their rooms after numerous Levittown neighborhoods lost power.
The building to the left of the Pepboys is a Burger King, but it's notable due to it being the only place which acknowledges the existence of old Oxford Valley village, plastering the walls with old captioned photographs of verdant fields, schoolhouses, and inns so lumpy Levittoids in sweatpants can learn about their local history while munching down a seared bite.
The plastic white monstrosity to the right is a 'monument' put up by Middletown Twp, the municipality which covers most of Lincoln Hwy, to welcome in commuters. It's supposed to look like a stylized M, but really it's actual function is a hideous billboard. Lights up at night too.
