This entry was posted on 8/12/2011 9:22 PM and is filed under uncategorized.
Over the past few weeks, I've been so preoccupied with other things that I haven't been doing my blogs as often as I normally like to do. Hopefully, I can start cranking them out again like I had been for most of the past 6 years.
This week, I got an e-mail from a ham radio friend, George, who happened to have a piece of "roadgeek history" that he thought I'd be interested in... the I-75 Ribbon Cutting Ceremony program from 1977.
This ceremony, held on December 21, 1977, marked the completion of I-75 along its original planned route from Tampa, Florida, to the Canadian border at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. I-75 was the first "border-to-border" Interstate highway to be completed in the United States. (The I-75 extension from Tampa to Naples and Miami was not fully completed and signed until "Alligator Alley" was widened and upgraded to Interstate standards in 1992. All non-tolled sections of the extension were completed in 1986.)
I took pictures of the program and its contents and placed them on the GRG Facebook page. You can also see them by clicking here.
George, I can't thank you enough for giving me this awesome piece of history, dude.
That's it for now. Thanks for reading and please come back often.
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