Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The first stretch of the Oklahoma City urban highway was dedicated Wednesday with plenty of dignitaries and the Northeast highshool band on hand. The stretch opened extends 1.75 miles between NE 63 and Eastern and Lincoln. H. E. Bailey, director of the highway department, snipped a red-satin ribbon (shown in picture across the teo lanes in the foreground) and the road was open."
[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.9457] · Oklahoma Historical Society / The Gateway to Oklahoma History · Original source
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Source context
"Officially Open", Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, October 5, 1950
Subjects recorded by the archive
Business, Economics and Finance - Journalism; Highways-City-Urban Expressways-U.S. 66 Bypass; Daily Oklahoman photographs; HIGHWAYS / CITY / URBAN EXPRESSWAYS / U.S. 66 BYPASS
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