Rund Abdelfatah
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598 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 19 Jul
Rund Abdelfatah’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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After the interstate system came in, Route 66 was pretty much defunct.
As the interstates came, they took the official signs down, and pretty soon there was not much there.
Business just stopped.
In 1985, the highway was officially decommissioned.
Today, in parts, Route 66 has been reduced to disconnected fragments of cracked asphalt, tumbleweeds, and dusty, out-of-date road signs.
It's a road past the golden years of retirement, crisscrossed and paved over by newly poured highways of gray concrete.
But something else happened, too.
As car traffic dwindled and small towns along the road started to dry up, some local communities rallied around Route 66.
With a spirit Cy Avery would have been proud to see.
And so they started the first historic Route 66 association.
Well, you know what's happened since then.
Associations have grown.
And 66 has become, instead of a road, it has become a tourist attraction.
Which was always Cy Avery's dream, wasn't it?
That's right.
And, well, the very last thing in my book.
In 1958, more than 40 years after he began building roads in Tulsa County, Cy received news that the county commission had changed the name of River Road to Avery Drive.
When he heard the news, he observed to a friend, 40 years is a long time, but it only goes to show that anyone interested in roads should never quit.
You know, we're marking 100 years this year, and the country was undergoing this huge dramatic transition at that moment.
What does Route 66 kind of symbolize when it comes to the American story?
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