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Transcripts For CSPAN3 Gilcrease Museum 20240622

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 monica. But it wasnt until the mid 1980s that the last shields went down. Thats when the decertification was complete. The federal shields were down. Now we had the interstates, 55 and 44 and 40 and 15 and 10. And route 66 went into a bit of a limbo. Its so many things that is the road is so many things. Much more than just the physical road itself. For many people its not for many people. Its nost ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN3 Gilcrease Museum 20240622

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 monica. But it wasnt until the mid 1980s that the last shields went down. Thats when the decertification was complete. The federal shields were down. Now we had the interstates, 55 and 44 and 40 and 15 and 10. And route 66 went into a bit of a limbo. Its so many things that is the road is so many things. Much more than just the physical road itself. For many people its not for many people. Its nost ....

United States , Mississippi River , Indian Land , New Mexico , District Of Columbia , Santa Monica , United Kingdom , Christopher Columbus , Indian Thomas , Al Gore , Henry Kissinger , Joseph Warren , Great Lakes , Many People , Title Museum , Thomas Gilcrease , Thomas Gilcrease Institute , Institute American , American History , Fine Arts , Northern Canada , Creek Nation , Quarter Creek , Tribal Holdings , Creek Indian , Top One ,