Eye Spy, Week One
Martha Simmons earns bragging rights as the first to find Atlanta

[August 03, 2020]    Week one of the Eye Spy game with Lincoln Daily News has come to an end, and we were happy with those who responded to the photos on our social media and read the clues in our daily edition.

Of course, by now you have all figured out that LDN took you to the city of Atlanta, right? But the first to figure it out was Martha Simmons who had it done by Wednesday, only the second day of the game.

Martha and her gang went to Atlanta that day and verified that she was right by finding some of the picture clues that led her to believe it was Atlanta. She took a selfie and sent it to us as she stood in front of the wall art outside Chubby’s. She didn’t care for how the picture turned out, and asked us to please not publish it. But nonetheless, she provided us proof she went there, so we agreed.

Martha said that what cinched it for her was the small snip of a larger photo published on Wednesday morning that said “Midway on Illinois Mother Road.”

“I came to the conclusion that the clues are for Atlanta because it probably really is almost half way between Chicago and St. Louis on Route 66. So we hopped in the car to see for ourselves if we could find the clues,” Martha said.

Martha is quite familiar with Route 66 and this first Eye Spy brought back a couple of fond memories for her which she shared with LDN.

“When I was a kid my Grandma lived right next to Route 66. I still remember the sounds made by the semis rolling down Route 66 at night when I spent the night with her. I even remember watching from her yard all the road work that IDOT had to do to create I-55. Road construction that we experience on our summer travels nowadays is nothing like seeing a highway being built from scratch as a kid.”

Thanks so much Martha for playing Eye Spy with Lincoln Daily News, and for sharing your Route 66 experience with our readers.

Now, for the rest of you….another game starts on Tuesday, August 4th. Don’t miss out on your chance to win bragging rights for Eye Spy, Week Two.

[Nila Smith]