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Drive-in advertisement from 1956 for Hot Rod Girl and co-feature, Girls in Prison. Several authors note the historical context of Hot Rod Girl and similar films. One writes, "America's car culture came into its own in the 1950s when the Interstate highways were built, Detroit boomed and high school shop classes trained auto mechanics.
David Persons, 17, arrived at 4 a.m. so he could be the first driver on Interstate 30 when the Dallas-Fort Worth Turnpike officially changed to a free expressway on Jan. 1, 1978.
Ransom! is a 1956 American crime drama film about the kidnapping of the son of a wealthy couple. Written by Richard Maibaum and Cyril Hume, the film is based on a popular 1954 episode of The United States Steel Hour titled "Fearful Decision" starring Ralph Bellamy.
The Best Things in Life Are Free: Michael Curtiz: Gordon MacRae, Dan Dailey, Sheree North: Musical: 20th Century Fox: Between Heaven and Hell: Richard Fleischer: Robert Wagner, Buddy Ebsen, Broderick Crawford: War: 20th Century Fox: Beyond Mombasa: George Marshall: Cornel Wilde, Donna Reed, Leo Genn: Adventure: United Artists. Co-production ...
The "Toll Roads and Free Roads" report was the first official step toward creation of the Interstate Highway System in the United States. The 25th Anniversary of the Lincoln Highway was noted a month later in a July 3, 1938, nationwide radio broadcast on NBC Radio .
It provides an important toll-free alternate route to Interstate 70 (the Kansas Turnpike). Several scenes for the TV-movie The Day After were filmed on the highway at De Soto in 1982 portraying a mass exodus evacuating the Kansas City area on I-70.
Some large sections of Interstate Highways that were planned or constructed before 1956 are still operated as toll roads, for example the Massachusetts Turnpike (I-90), the New York State Thruway (I-87 and I-90), and Kansas Turnpike (I-35, I-335, I-470, I-70).
All-electronic toll; must have FasTrak; HOV-2+ and motorcycles toll-free [8] US 101 (Express Lanes) 27.0 43.5 SR 237 – Sunnyvale: I-380 – South San Francisco: Variable toll pricing All-electronic toll; must have Fastrak; HOV-3+ and motorcycles toll-free; HOV-2 and single-occupant clean air vehicles pay half-price [9] I-405 (Express Lanes ...