Old Route 66 Scenes - 1990

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Mate Milen will INTERPRETIVE SIGN & DO- NATION BOX JUST UP THE HILL. 12 Uki Waki NAV SCISSORTAILED FLYCATCHERS WATCH FOR OKLAHOMA'S "STATE BIRD ALONG 66, ACROSS OK. & INTO THE TEXAS PANHANDLE. THESE GRACEFUL BIRDS SALLY FORTH FROM PERCHES CATCHING INSECTS ON THE WING THEA TEZPIE Fik CY 66 NIM 526 ARCADIA, OKLAHOMA (ALT. 959 FT.) -THE ROUND BARN domi PERCHES OVER OLD 66, ITS MIGHTY SIZE DWARFING THE ROAD. BUILT IN 1898 BY A MR. OPOR THIS GO-FOOT DIAMETER STRUCTURE IS MADE OF NATIVE BURR OAK. IT RISES 43 FEET FROM ITS FOUNDATION TO THE PEAK OF ITS DOME. CALLED A "TORNADO BARN" SEVERAL WERE BUILT, BUT THIS MAY BE WHEN THE ROOF THE ONLY ONE STILL STANDING AT LEAST ALONG OLD 66. COLLAPSED IN 1989, A SAVE THE ROUND BARN" FUND-RAISING CAMPAIGN SEGAN... ITS OVERWHELMING SUCCESS RESULTED IN A COMPLETE RESTORATION LUTHER OF THE BARN. VISIT THIS UNIQUE LANDMARK & THE DX STATION NEXT TO IT FOR ROUND BARN INFORMATION. EDMOND- TINY ARCADIA'S HANDFUL OF OLD BUILDINGS STRAD- TO CLINTON DLE 66. THE TOWN WAS EST. IN 1890, NEAR THE SITE WHERE. WASHINGTON IRVING EN CAMPED. THE KATY R. R. CAME THROUGH IN 1903, OPERATING TILL FLOODS IN 1974, ENDED RAILROAD TRAFFIC. ROUND BARN TORD TULSA ARCADIA TOK. CITY SCISSORTAILS ARE THREATENED BY RAIN- FOREST DESTRUCTION IN THEIR WINTER HABITAT by R. Waldmire. ho WAY OLD ROUTE 66 Scenes! 1990

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ROUTE 66 WAS CERTIFIED IN 1926 WHEN THE NATION ADOPTED A NUIMBERED SYSTEM OF CROSS- COUNTRY, INTER-STATE ROADS. FULLY PAVED BY 1936, ROUTE 66 BECAME AN IMPORTANT LEGENDARY HIGHWAY IMMORTALIZED IN LITERATURE, MUSIC & ON TELEVISION. GRADUALLY "REPLACED BY HUGE HOMOGENEOUS INTERSTATES," 66 WAS DECERTIFIED IN 1985, CEASING TO EXIST OFFICIALLY BUT WELL OVER 80% OF THE OLD ROAD IS STILL PRIVEABLE SO, TRAVEL BACK IN TIME, & LEAVE THE STRESS BEHIND ON THE INTERSTATES... AND THEN YOU TOO WILL SAY: I STILL GET MY KICKS, ON OLD ROUTE 66 SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL OLD IS BEAUTIFUL SLOW IS BEAUTIFUL SAFE IS BEAUTIFUL SANTA MONICA! CLAREMONT LOS ANGELES PASADENA Pacific Ocean CAL. TUDLOW- SAN BERNARDINO VICTORI BARSTOW COLORADO Great Basin LINEV/ NEEDLES FORT OPOCZORK C Grand Canyon Painted UTAH ARIZ NM. Desert Petrified for WINSLOW- JOSEPA Cry HOLBROOK FLAGSTAFF colorado RIO Plateau COLO. GRANDE 14 GALLUP THOREAU GPANTS CONT DIVIDE 10 GLENRIO MORIARTY SANTA ROSA 62563 SIONITTINE TUCUMCARIO CHESTER ROCH 011 Xo .R. 2. Box R. R -DMIRE, still the best way west? TAKE OLD PALMOST ALL THE WAY! MAIN STREET,USA- ChicagotoL.A.! R. WALD To (write small) ALBUQUERQUE 2.1P VEGA OKLA WEATHERFORDHYDRO KAN TEKSUS VEGA (midway on 66) ARCADIA EDMOND OXLAHOMA CITY MCLEAN GROOM AMARILLO Prairie Province OKLA CLIM CELK CITY SHAMROCK GALENA BAXTER SPGS. KANSAS EL RENO MISSOU HALL -SAPULPA DEPEW BRISTOW MIAMI VINITA CLAREMORE TULSA PACIFIC SULLIVAN CUBA- JOPLIN COMMO CARTHAGE SAINT LOUIS CHICAGO BROADWELL LLINOI OSPRINGFIELD -ST. JAMES WAYNES VILLE ROLLA Lake Michigan BLOOMINGTON OLINCOLN SPRINGFIELD LITCHFIELD JOLIET DWIGHT MOPONTIAC EDWARDSVILLE GRANITE CITY EAST ST. LOUIS Mississippi R. PLATEAU - CH² ER © 1990 PRINTED ON 100% RECYCLED R. Waldme STOCK