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The U.S. Highway 66 Association was organized in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1927. Its purpose was to get U.S. Highway 66 paved from end to end and to promote tourism on the highway. The organization was similar to many that existed before the creation of federal highways in 1926, including those that promoted the Lincoln Highway and the National Old ...
The route sign, 1926–1948. The Historic Route 66 Association of Arizona was established in February 1987 and dedicated to the U.S. Route 66 in Arizona.The Arizona association was instrumental in making the Seligman-Kingman stretch of Route 66 to be officially recognized as "Historic Route 66" later that year, a designation subsequently extended to the whole Route 66 in Arizona.
Because it was named “U.S. 66,” via telegram at a meeting of highway officials in Springfield, Missouri on April 30, 1926. ... If you time your trip just right, you (and 75,000 other Route 66 ...
Since 1985, when US 66 was decommissioned, several states where US 66 passed have re-commissioned part of the former route in that state as a state route 66. In the list of state routes 66 below, those marked with an asterisk (*) have a connection with the former US 66.
1. Roy's Motel and Cafe. Amboy, California. Roy's started as a gas and service station in 1938, an oasis on Route 66 in the Mojave Desert. It soon grew to include a cafe and cabins for overnight ...
Now: Truxton, Arizona. Truxton wasn't much of anything until the 1950s postwar car boom, and then became one among many Route 66 cities bypassed by the construction of Interstate 40 in 1979.
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On Tulsa's Southwest Boulevard, between W. 23rd and W. 24th Streets there is a granite marker dedicated to Route 66 as the Will Rogers Highway which features an image of namesake Will Rogers together with information on the route from Michael Wallis, author of Route 66: The Mother Road; [58] and, at Howard Park just past W. 25th Street, three ...