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Waving goodbye to the Lone Star State, we were delighted to find that traversing many sections of Oklahoma's Route 66 threw us back to the 1930s. Miles of the Mother Road are paved in the original pristine curbed Portland concrete with interrupting asphalt patches.
The click clack, click clack sound of the road reflects the sound heard by travelers of the past. These sections are like a museum preserving the history of road construction, evolving pavement design, road engineering and design.See the full content of this document
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Route 66: Museums Abound in Oklahoma
In the early 1920s, all Oklahoma men between the ages of 21 and 45 were required to perform four eight-hour days of road work each year. If they did not do t...
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