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The still-independent route, starting at US-81 in southeastern El Reno, became SH-66, using surface streets except through Oklahoma City and Tulsa, where Route 66 had been rerouted onto the freeways. SH-66 ends at US-60 west of Vinita , where Route 66 overlapped US-60 and US-69 to east of Commerce .
The Route 66 Historical Village at 3770 Southwest Boulevard in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is an open-air museum along historic U.S. Route 66 (US 66, Route 66). [1] The village includes a 194-foot-tall (59 m) oil derrick at the historic site of the first oil strike in Tulsa on June 25, 1901, which helped make Tulsa the " Oil Capital of the World ". [ 1 ]
The 66 Motel in Tulsa, Oklahoma was built on the original, two-lane U.S. Route 66 (US 66, Route 66) around 1933 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. The listing included two buildings: the main or office building and a separate strip of motel rooms.
“Historic Route 66 is the quintessential American experience,” explains Ken Busby, executive director and CEO of Route 66 Alliance, a nonprofit organization in Tulsa, Oklahoma dedicated to the ...
Former U.S. Route 66 over the Arkansas River from Tulsa to West Tulsa 36°08′38″N 96°00′10″W / 36.143889°N 96.002778°W / 36.143889; -96.002778 ( Eleventh Street Arkansas River
U.S. Route 66 Business (Tulsa, Oklahoma) U.S. Route 66 Bypass (Tulsa, Oklahoma) C. Canute Service Station; Casa Grande Hotel (Elk City, Oklahoma) Casa Loma Hotel ...
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 ...
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