Calling all Geezers
I'm a geezer too just a yungin though. Watching a bit on the history channel about early roads and vehicles, in the US. I remember redding a long time back about the adventures of Eisenhower and an a...
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wa8yxm wrote:
Not many now days remember those days before modern Freeways.. Which did not come into existence till Eisenhower made it to the big house with the number 1600 on it. Yup, folks our Freeway system is only about 60 years old.. Actually Henry Ford built the first one.. The Davison in Detroit. But it is only a few miles long.
The national system was signed into existence by President Eisenhower.
Not all of it, I am sure many here in the NW remember that I90 had two missing parts up to the early 90's.
There was the Scenic drive through downtown Wallace, ID, and the fact that I90 in Seattle started and ended (East bound and West bound) at a stop light about a mile short of I5.
