Scans from the Yellow Book

ajfroggie.com ^ | 2005 | Adam Froehlig

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This page has links to city scans from the "Yellow Book", which was a book from 1955 detailing the then-proposed Interstate Highway system. Besides the main Interstate system connecting the metropolitan areas of the country, the Yellow Book also included maps of the proposed urban Interstates within many of those metropolitan areas. The following links, grouped by state, show those proposed urban Interstates from 1955:

The national system: •Toll roads suggested in 1938 •A Master Plan for Free Highway Development, dated 1939 •Interregional Highways, dated ca. 1943 •Proposed National System of Interstate Highways, August 2, 1947 •Existing and then-proposed toll roads in the U.S., dated January 1, 1955 •Text from an associated article on incorporating toll roads into the Interstate system, dated May, 1955 •Approved route numbering for the Interstate System, dated August 14, 1957 •Additions to the proposed system, October 17, 1957 •Text from the associated article detailing the 1957 additions •Updated route numbering for the Interstates, approved June 27, 1958 •Interstate System addition requests, dated March 30, 1970

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We drove US roads before there were Interstate highways; seems to me, we’ve never seen the huge number of turkey vultures that we see today.