"Get Your Kicks" Virtual Cache
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Take a trip down Memory Lane and get your kicks with this virtual!!
"If you ever plan to motor west
Travel my way, take the highway that's the best,
Get your kicks on_____ __!
It winds from Chicago to L. A.
More than two thousand miles all the way.
Get your kicks on_____ __!
Now you go through St. Looey, Joplin, Missouri
And Oklahoma City looks mighty pretty.
You'll see Amarillo, Gallup, New Mexico
Flagstaff, Arizona; don't forget Winona,
Kingman, Barstow, San Bernardino.
Won't you get hip to this timely tip
When you make that California trip.
Get your kicks on _____ __."
Words & Music by Bobby Troup
Copyright 1946, Londontown Music
"Cyrus Stevens Avery of Tulsa, Oklahoma as an effort by local boosters to link the former Indian Territory with Chicago and Los Angeles conceived this road in the 1920’s. Avery, a highway commissioner, envisioned diverting traffic from Kansas City and Denver when he was asked by the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads to help develop a new system of interstate highways. Avery spent most of 1925 working with an appointed committee to stitch together hundreds of existing roads into the new system. Avery wanted U.S. 60 for his "road to California" but bowed to political pressure in accepting the "double digit" designation on November 11, 1926.
This Mother Road was later promoted through Phillips gasoline, which appropriated the magic numbers and logo, and by the United States Highway Association, based in Clinton, OK. Both touted it as the Main Street of America.
Perhaps due to its’ Oklahoma origins, it has become the state's single "most tourists" attraction. About 80 percent of the original paved sections across the country are drivable, but some are abandoned fragments leading nowhere. Improvements and bypasses to the road began almost immediately after its completion in 1926 when engineers sought to straighten out its hooks, elbows and hairpin turns. Navigating it can be baffling because the road contains many dead ends and sections that have been taken over by city roads or the interstates."
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2) What is the number on the door near the sign?
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