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Route 66 gets its number in Springfield
1926
Springfield, Missouri
Mingo Hagen from Amsterdam, Netherlands · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
The new Chicago-to-Los Angeles highway was to be numbered 60, and Kentucky objected loudly enough that the planners needed another. Officials meeting here wired Washington proposing 66, a spare number nobody wanted, and one that happened to sound good. The road was signed within months and the phrase Main Street of America followed.
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