1926 telegram from B.H. Piepmeyer and Cyrus Avery, businessmen from Oklahoma and Missouri, to the U.
1926 telegram from B.H. Piepmeyer and Cyrus Avery, businessmen from Oklahoma and Missouri, to the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads on the numbering of the proposed cross-country highway that would become Route 66. Avery did not like the number 62, which was originally proposed, and proposed the available 66 instead. He succeeded, and the iconic highway was approved by Congress later that year. -- source link
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