Trail Dust: Work On Route 66 Was Political 'Joke'
The Santa Fe New Mexican › March 26, 2007
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Simmons: Road project finished in one month
It was called America's Main Street. It also was known by the name author John Steinbeck coined: The Mother Road. Route 66, designated by the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads in 1926, stretched from Chicago to Southern California, covering 2,448 miles.See the full content of this document
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Trail Dust: Work On Route 66 Was Political 'Joke'
Traversing eight states, U.S. Highway 66 in the beginning was a mere patchwork of existing roads, more than half of them still unpaved. Improvements would continue for another decade, before completion of...
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