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Nostalgia fast food with style - Returning to Rax

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Nostalgia. It sells. It evokes, and more accurately, warps memories of days gone by.  Things were better, simpler, and we eat it up. Nostalgia can make you drive three hours and over a hundred miles out of your way just to reconnect with a dying fast-food restaurant you last enjoyed in the early to mid-90s.  That person was me - that restaurant was Rax. I could go on about Rax's history, but in short, Rax was briefly a very popular roast beef fast-food chain.  Growing up in the 80s and early 90s in Western PA, Rax was the good fast-food spot.  The milkshakes.  (Personally, the chocolate chip milkshake was heaven.)  Uncle Alligator Kids Meal with the chocolate chip cookie. Take that McDonald's Happy Meal!  The fancy salad and hot foods bar.  Going to Rax was special.  Like so many similar restaurants, various investments, management decisions, etc., led Rax to almost disappear overnight.  By the time I graduated college in late 1999, abou...
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Nevada State Route 120

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Nevada State Route 120 is rural state highway located near Fallon in Churchill County.  Nevada State Route 120 begins at US Route 95 (Schurz Highway) and extends 6.26 miles along Pasture Road to the original alignment of US Route 50 at Berney Road (now Nevada State Route 119).  Nevada State Route 120 was commissioned during July 1976 and serves to funnel traffic from US Route 95 to the original gate to Naval Air Station Fallon.   Part 1; the history of Nevada State Route 120 Modern Nevada State Route 120 is aligned on Pasture Road eastward from US Route 95 in the vicinity of the shore of Carson Lake.  Nevada State Route 120 terminates at Nevada State Route 119 (formerly US Route 50 on Berney Road) near the entrance gates to Naval Air Station Fallon.   Naval Air Station Fallon was commissioned and constructed in 1942 following the United States entering World War II.  Originally Naval Air Station Fallon was part of a defensive network of bases east...
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Nevada State Route 118

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Nevada State Route 118 is an approximately 3.48-mile rural highway located in Churchill County.  Nevada State Route 118 begins at Harrigan Road (former US Route 50 and current Nevada State Route 115) and extends eastward along Wildes Road to New River Canal at the northern boundary of Naval Air Station Fallon.  This corridor was originally designated in 1939 in Nevada State Route 62 which served the air station radio range.  The current highway number of 118 was designated as part of the 1976 Nevada State Highway renumbering.   Part 1; the history of Nevada State Route 118 Nevada State Route 118 follows Wildes Road east from Schurz Highway (US Route 95) from the outskirts of Fallon.  Wildes Road was constructed alongside the L Line Canal which connects to Stillwater Slough.   Wildes Road can be seen alongside L Line Canal east from Fallon to Stillwater Slough on the 1908 United States Geological Survey map of Carson Sink.  Wildes Road is show...
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The alignment history of US Routes 50 and 95 in Fallon

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Fallon has been the seat of Churchill County since 1904 and during the automotive era has been part of numerous historic highways.  Fallon was first designated as part of the Lincoln Highway in 1913 and was part of three distinct alignment generations of the trans-continental corridor.  By November 1926 the last generation of the Lincoln Highway in Fallon was repurposed as part of US Route 50.  By 1939 US Route 95 was aligned through Fallon when the corridor was extended through Nevada to Blythe, California.  The current alignments of US Routes 50 and 95 began to evolve during the 1950s and would be in place by 1959.  Numerous older segments of US Route 50 since 1976 have been repurposed as Nevada State Routes 115 and 119.  This blog serves as an examination of the alignment history of the US Routes and the Lincoln Highway within the Fallon area.   Early US Route 50 and Nevada State Route 1A (later US Route 95) can be seen passing through Fallon t...
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