Highway Beautification Act

More than just wildflowers along highways - the Highway Beautification Act called for the removal of some types of billboards, unsightly roadside junkyards were removed or screened, and the enhancement of scenic views. In these photographs, President Lydon B. Johnson signs the Highway Beautification Act while the Act’s biggest supporter, Lady Bird Johnson looks on.

Photograph of President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Highway Beautification Act, 10/22/1965

Photograph of President Lyndon B. Johnson handing Lady Bird Johnson a signing pen at the signing ceremony for the Highway Beautification Act, 10/22/1965

Road trip?  Don’t forget to pack a lunch (or breakfast, in this case)! View of Ohio tourists having early breakfast on parking Area 460 to 463. The view is ahead (west), 07/21/1941 from the series Federal Highway Construction Photos, 1919 - 1971 (We think Papa would approve.)
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Road trip?  Don’t forget to pack a lunch (or breakfast, in this case)!

View of Ohio tourists having early breakfast on parking Area 460 to 463. The view is ahead (west), 07/21/1941 from the series Federal Highway Construction Photos, 1919 - 1971

(We think Papa would approve.)

“It is the intent of the Congress that the Interstate System be completed as nearly as practicable over a thirteen-year period and that the entire System in all the States be brought to simultaneous completion. Because of it’s primary importance to the national defense, the name of such system is hereby changed to the “National System of Interstate and Defense Highways.”    National Interstate and Defense Highways Act An ardent supporter of a “modern, interstate highway system,” ever since his experience in the arduous 1919 Transcontinental Motor Convoy, President Eisenhower signed this bill into law on the 29th of June, 1956. The act authorized the building of highways throughout the nation, which would be the biggest public works project in the nation’s history.
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“It is the intent of the Congress that the Interstate System be completed as nearly as practicable over a thirteen-year period and that the entire System in all the States be brought to simultaneous completion. Because of it’s primary importance to the national defense, the name of such system is hereby changed to the “National System of Interstate and Defense Highways.”   

National Interstate and Defense Highways Act

An ardent supporter of a “modern, interstate highway system,” ever since his experience in the arduous 1919 Transcontinental Motor Convoy, President Eisenhower signed this bill into law on the 29th of June, 1956. The act authorized the building of highways throughout the nation, which would be the biggest public works project in the nation’s history.

It is the intent of the Congress that the Interstate System be completed as nearly as practicable over a thirteen-year period and that the entire System in all the States be brought to simultaneous completion. Because of it’s primary importance to the national defense, the name of such system is hereby changed to the “National System of Interstate and Defense Highways.

National Interstate and Defense Highways Act

An ardent supporter of a “modern, interstate highway system,” President Eisenhower signed this bill into law on the 29th of June, 1956. The act authorized the building of highways throughout the nation, which would be the biggest public works project in the nation’s history.