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Boyhood home of Mickey Mantle

Commerce, OK Dairy King & see the Boyhood home of Mickey Mantle. Miami, OK
Coleman Theater, Vintage Iron Motorcycle Museum. Afton, OK

Coleman Theater
Afton Station Packard Car Museum.

Blue Whale
Catoosa, OK, the Blue Whale. That evening Tulsa, OK & dinner at Tally’s Cafe or
any other restaurants near by. Tulsa has several other hotels to choose from.

Cyrus Avery Bronze Statue in Tulsa
Businessman Cyrus Avery of Tulsa, OK,
and John Woodruff of Springfield, MO deserve most of the credit for promoting the idea
of linking the two seaports between Chicago, IL & Los Angeles, CA. They lobbied until
their dreams merged with the national program of highway and road devlopment. The
Mother Road was created by connecting together main streets or towns and old trails
started by Indians, Military and animal trackers of the time. A new bronze statue has
been to Memorialize his effo