http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2012/08/in_1947_central_expressway_was.php
1947:
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.dallasobserver.com%2Funfairpark%2Fcentralexpressway-before.jpg&hash=4ce5c7cd6ce0ac1bbcaa62d991fc35f856aa51df)
1949 (the same spot, not sure where):
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.dallasobserver.com%2Funfairpark%2Fcentralexpressway-after.jpg&hash=d30f5742dcfc827a6a8c68e7e8ba8da342f6711b)
Oi, y'forgot one! :-D
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.dallasobserver.com%2Funfairpark%2FInterstateLoopCartoon.jpg&hash=c98d48495d9ba6b6c7c8fb476c394ba054c9a430)
Quote from: yakra on August 21, 2012, 07:46:08 PM
Oi, y'forgot one! :-D
(https://www.aaroads.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.dallasobserver.com%2Funfairpark%2FInterstateLoopCartoon.jpg&hash=c98d48495d9ba6b6c7c8fb476c394ba054c9a430)
I was hoping you wouldn't catch that one.... 8)
That highway was built really quick (2 yrs.) if those dates are correct. Something like that now would take at least 4 yrs., with the destruction of the houses, fill, grading, and paving. Of course, this is Texas and there might have been mild winters to allow a faster completion schedule plus they did not have to do any environmental studies back then.
Nice pics...........love seeing the before the big highway pics. But not as much as I love miles of fresh poured concrete.