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Nevada DOT 100-year e-book and website

Started by Kniwt, March 26, 2017, 10:13:57 AM

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Kniwt

http://nevadadot.com/100

QuoteNDOT Celebrates 100 Years

Established as the Nevada Department of Highways on March 23, 1917, our mission was to surface the rutted dirt paths that served as the road network of the time.

Fast forward 100 years and take a trip down memory lane. Enjoy amazing historical Nevada transportation photos and videos that showcase many of the important projects and milestones that have kept Nevadans safe and connected for the past 100 years.  And enjoy our new eBook with a decade-by-decade history of progression of state transportation. 

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Read our E-book: Silver Century, Transporting Nevada's Past, Present and Future 1917-2017:
http://www.nevadadot.com/home/showdocument?id=6950

Near the site of the current Spaghetti Bowl:


Max Rockatansky

Been flipping through this a little during breakfast, suffice to say Las Vegas looked a little bit different during the early US Route era.  :-D  Why is there someone climbing the arch of the Pat Tillman Bridge on the cover page?  :-D

roadfro

Thanks for linking to this Kniwt!

Also nice that NDOT has refreshed their overall website design to coincide with this.

Quote from: Kniwt on March 26, 2017, 10:13:57 AM
Near the site of the current Spaghetti Bowl:


I've seen this photo posted by NDOT before, with a similar caption. I've always been curious to know exactly where it was taken and which direction. It must be on Main Street somewhere between Fremont Street (Experience) and Bonanza Road. (The three routes also overlapped on Fremont Street between Main Street and 5th Street [now Las Vegas Blvd], but I think that stretch would have been more built up with casinos and other businesses than depicted here.)
Roadfro - AARoads Pacific Southwest moderator since 2010, Nevada roadgeek since 1983.

Max Rockatansky

Just finished reading up through the 1970s and had a look at all the pictures.  I'd say for photo references, US Routes, and Interstate Highways that was a really good little short DOT sourced history booklet.  I'm a little disappointed that the state route renumbering really wasn't touched on nor any of the strange roadways that were adopted by the legislature that weren't much of anything beyond dirt paths.  I love stuff like this with older pictures from times before the Interstates, I really wish ADOT would put out something like this for Arizona.

Kniwt

Quote from: roadfro on March 26, 2017, 03:11:11 PM
I've always been curious to know exactly where it was taken and which direction.

For what it's worth on the direction part of that, I'd say southbound is a fairly good guess, solely because Kiwanis probably would have placed their meeting sign going into town (as such groups still do, although often on giant multi-organization boards), not out of town.



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