CSPAN3 Gilcrease Museum June 22, 2024
We had the baby boom. And then everybody got a brandnew car. Cars were made again and we had to show or family where we trained at the great lakes or down in oklahoma or out in texas or in california, and people took to the road. And the wartime blended right into peacetime into the great long heyday of route 66. The late 40s, throughout the 50s, 60s, even into the 70s. Even after president eisenhower in 1956 signed actually the death warrant for the road, the interstate highway act which led to the creation of five interstate highways that tried to take route 66s place from chicago to santa m...