Other People’s Collections – PA Turnpike

We drove through Pennsylvania recently, and at one of the rest areas, we found a huge collection of Pennsylvania Turnpike memorabilia.

The collection donated to the Turnpike, as this sign explains, by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Miller includes hundreds of artifacts and pieces of memorabilia representing over 70 years of Turnpike history.

The collection will be rotated, here are a few of the pieces currently on display that caught my eye. They are a bit hard to see because they are behind glass and also because they are backed by blown up old photographs of men in suits. I didn’t see an explanation of who they were, and I cropped them out as much as possible.

One of my favorite pieces was a book of old matches (top left) because the matches looked like gasoline pumps.

Apparently, there was even a song about the Turnpike!