The City of Tulsa began construction of its Route 66 gateway on the east side of the city earlier in the month.
Fewer than 10 days later, city planner Dennis Whitaker sent along these photos.
And longtime Route 66 afiscionado Brad Nickson put together this video of a drive-by of the gateway.
Tulsa Route 66 Gateway from Brad Nickson on Vimeo.
The east gateway is on on the north side of 11th Street (aka Route 66), just east of Interstate 44.
Crews now will start on the west gateway on Southwest Boulevard (aka Route 66) across from the Crystal City shopping center. That will require about a week of work.
Those are among the last Route 66 projects of Vision 2025 sales tax, approved in 2003. The last item will by the Route 66 Experience museum at the banks of the Arkansas River. The museum is planned as a public-private effort by the city and the Route 66 Alliance. The alliance will have to raise millions of dollars to cover its portion of the construction.