
We Know the Hollywood Story..But do you know the rest of the Story?
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Cyrus Avery used a little known trail from the California Gold Rush that ran through Oklahoma, as he drew plans for the route that would become Route 66. He was successful in his bid to have the new route pass through his home state. This route was designated U.S. Highway 66. On November 11, 1926 a bill was signed in Washington creating the American Highway System. Roads to carry a nation on the move, through hard times, war, and rebirth.
Route 66 would become the most celebrated and famous of these two-lanes.
Route 66 is uniquely American. There are a thousand stories of hope, heartbreak, love, hate, starting over, and new dreams found along the next bend of the highway we call the Mother Road. The story of Route 66 is our story;
No other culture has had the same type of love affair with the automobile, and few have had the wide-open spaces offered by the American West.
Route 66 became the twentieth century version of the Oregon Trail, the golden road to the promised land and has inspired our spirit ever since.