Originally Posted by Jim Moscheck
By the way a bit of trivia. Did you know that this Telegraph Road was the inspiration for Dire Straits song of the same name. Mark Knoffler wrote it while traveling north up US 24 to play a concert at Pine Knob. Knoffler doesn't think so, but I think it's one of their best songs.
And to be on topic Tlaib's district includes most of Telegraph Road.
I know that song well. I always assumed Telegraph Road referred to some original Telegraph Road in London or thereabouts since Dire Straits / Knopfler is (are) from London... I think. Learn something new each day! By the way, I grew up walking distance from 24 at the I 69 junction, on the south west side of Fort Wayne. More trivia, our mountain place is a stones throw from where 24 turns north at Buena Vista CO and heads the last 50-60 miles north to meet I 70 at Minturn/Beaver Creek.
I'm not sure but I think US24 and I70 share the same roadbed a lot of the way from Indy west to Denver, so that drive is not exactly Route 66.

But wait! More trivia still - My dad was stationed at Lowery AFB when he first enlisted during the Korean war. He came from Fort Wayne to Denver on a bus on 24. Almost froze to death he says. Denver does not get winters like that any more. So, US24 is definitely the mother road for me!