Interesting photo of I-35 in 1956

[Nik]

http://cjonline.com/photo_pages/012206/35265.shtml

Apparently, by the time Kansas had completed building its portion of I-35, Oklahoma had not even allocated money for the construction to the highway literally ended in a field at the border.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_Turnpike#The_southern_terminus

[DolfanBob]

Talk about the road to nowhere.
That field looks like a early crop circle type photo.

[GG]

That is a good picture of history. 

I own some border land south of Edna, Kansas.  Our land is on the Oklahoma side, across the road is Kansas.

[Breadburner]

Great photo.....

[heironymouspasparagus]

That's how 169 was south of 51st for a long time.  Used to go to the pile of dirt to watch fireworks at the river from there.  Great position - was sorry to see the road finished - lost the viewing place.

[DolfanBob]

That is a good picture of history. 

I own some border land south of Edna, Kansas.  Our land is on the Oklahoma side, across the road is Kansas.

I tell ya, We just bought land behind the Great Wall.......On the good side !

[Gonesouth1234]

http://cjonline.com/photo_pages/012206/35265.shtml

Apparently, by the time Kansas had completed building its portion of I-35, Oklahoma had not even allocated money for the construction to the highway literally ended in a field at the border.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_Turnpike#The_southern_terminus

It would be interesting to dig back into the archives and find out the pattern that was followed to do the construction on I-35 once the funding was allocated. 

Why do I think the starting point just happened to be in the Capitol city of our beloved homeland, completed there, and then expanded to the north and south?   

[tulsascoot]

So Oklahoma's highways have always been inferior to the surrounding states? Do we have to be behind everyone in everything? (except female incarceration)

[DolfanBob]

So Oklahoma's highways have always been inferior to the surrounding states? Do we have to be behind everyone in everything? (except female incarceration)

I heard somewhere that we are also the divorce capital of the U.S.

[dbacks fan]

That's how 169 was south of 51st for a long time.  Used to go to the pile of dirt to watch fireworks at the river from there.  Great position - was sorry to see the road finished - lost the viewing place.

I can remember when it ended at 21st like that.

[Red Arrow]

I can remember when it ended at 21st like that.

I believe 169 still ended at 21st Street when our family moved here in 1971.  By 1987, it had been extended to 51st but not 71st.  I was working at the Cherokee Industrial Park at the time.  I took me about 1/2 hr to get to 169 & 51st from 111th & Memorial.  It was absolutely horrible around Christmas with Woodland Hills traffic.

[DolfanBob]

I can remember when it ended at 21st like that.

I remember 21st then 51st then 71st. It was dirt bike Heaven.

[Hoss]

I remember 21st then 51st then 71st. It was dirt bike Heaven.

I just remember 51st, then 71st was right after I got married in 1990.  Moved to Texas in 1991 and we came back to visit that Thanksgiving (1991) and they had already built the Creek.  I was like 'wow'...I remember when the only thing east of Mingo on 71st street until you got to BA was the Maytag store right there at 169.  Nothing else.

[heironymouspasparagus]

They took it to 51st for a long time, then while they were building Woodland Hills mall, they hurried up to get the extension done for mall traffic.  That was early 80s.

[Conan71]

They took it to 51st for a long time, then while they were building Woodland Hills mall, they hurried up to get the extension done for mall traffic.  That was early 80s.

Not that much of a hurry considering WHM opened late '76 to mid '77