Week of November 30, 2003: The eastern terminus point of the western OK-53A, at the south end of Comanche Lake. A hearing is scheduled for December 11th to discuss decommissioning this highway, leaving the short road to Gene Autry, OK, as the only OK-53A in the state. Click here for more information on the hearing.



Week of December 7, 2003: Riverside Drive in Tulsa, just north of 31st Street. Picture taken from the Pedestrian Bridge of the start of last year's ABATE of Tulsa Christmas Toy Run, and the first of 17,000 bikes to pass along this area on that day. This coming Sunday (the 14th) is this year's Toy Run, benefiting the USMC Toys for Tots.



Week of December 14, 2003: The closest Historical Marker to my house. Southwest Blvd. in Tulsa, the 41st Street Bridge in the distance.



Week of December 21, 2003: US-75 northbound, north of Tulsa, the 56th Street North exit at the top of the hill in the distance. Picture taken Christmas morning 2002, a couple of days after nearly eight inches of snow had fallen in the Tulsa area.



Week of December 28, 2003: Not exactly a road pic, but rare nonetheless. An empty Wal-Mart parking lot, taken at three in the afternoon. On Christmas Day, when the store was closed.



Week of January 11, 2004: Let's start the first pic of the new year on the first state highway. OK-1, a few miles west of the Arkansas border, and the only spot on the Oklahoma side of Talimena Drive (other than the end, of course) with a junction to another highway. US-259 is less than a quarter-mile away from this little connecting road.



Week of January 18, 2004: US-59 southbound at the Oklahoma/Kansas State Line. State maps suggest that OK-2 is also duplexed along this stretch of road, but all of the assurance signs suggest the northern end of OK-2 is actually thirteen miles south of this spot, in Welch.



Week of January 25, 2004: Northern terminus of the former OK-97T, at OK-97 north of Sand Springs. Earlier this month the Oklahoma Department of Transportation decommissioned OK-97T, almost exactly a year after the highway was created. All 97T signs along the route have been removed.



Week of February 1, 2004: OK-3 westbound looking north, just west of Ada, at the point where the highway diverges into 3E & 3W. OK-3E continues along this mini-expressway bypassing central Ada, while OK-3W heads west from this point. This exit also marks the eastern terminus of OK-19.



Week of February 8, 2004: Eastern terminus of the western AR-4, in Cove, AR. The two AR-4's, this one at the western extreme of the state and the other one near the Mississippi River in the southeastern corner, were originally connected, but the entire midsection was replaced by US-278. It's possible that the Arkansas DOT still recognizes the entire road as AR-4, but as they rarely show state highway signage when duplexed with a US highway, it's hard to verify, so I'm treating AR-4 as two separate roads, as they are a couple of hundred miles apart



Week of February 15, 2004: Eastern terminus of the eastern OK-5, in Waurika. One of the few state highways remaining where part of the road has a bricked surface, as is the case here.



Week of February 29, 2004: BUS-OK-7 westbound through Duncan. Formerly OK-7 until a new road was constructed that bypassed downtown, other signs along this stretch also mark the road as OK-7B. Most road maps erroneously refer to this short highway as OK-7A.  



Week of March 14, 2004: Classic neon Meadow Gold sign atop the building on the southwest corner of 11th & Lewis in Tulsa, 11th Street at this point being Historical Route 66. The square support at the very top originally contained a working clock  The sign is in the process of being removed by the owner of the building underneath it, who obviously doesn't give a damn about historical preservation. If a buyer for the sign isn't found, it will likely be destroyed.



Week of April 4, 2004: Map of southwest Tulsa, put up by FlintCo. Several of these signs appear throughout the area displayed on the map. This particular sign is the one closest to the 11th Street bridge over the Arkansas River, near the top of the map. Hard to see it, but the roads marked in red constitute Historic Route 66. I live roughly under the 'r' in 'Red Fork".