Finding the unexpected in the everyday.
Miguel Ángel Rosales Izás, an architect who has specialized in the design of bridges, was born in Guatemala City (the capital of the eponymous Central American country) in 1961. He was oldest of the four sons of Antonio Rosales and Lidia Izás. In 1984, Miguel A. Rosales earned a degree in architecture from Francisco... Continue Reading →
On June 18, 1925, the sixth of the regional meetings of the Joint Board on Interstate Highways was held in Boston for the New England states. The specific location for this gathering was the boardroom of the Massachusetts Department of Public Works in the Massachusetts State House. This building, which was constructed during the 1790s,... Continue Reading →
A week after the fourth regional meeting of the Joint Board on Interstate Highways had taken place in Atlanta, the fifth of these meetings -- likewise focused on potential U.S. Highway Numbered System routes -- was held in New York City on June 15, 1925. The previous day’s edition of the New York Times reported,... Continue Reading →
September 1, 2009 Wayne Shackelford, who served for nearly a decade as commissioner of the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT), died at what is now known as Piedmont Eastside Medical Center in the city of Snellville in the north-central part of the Peach State. He was 75. Shackelford was born in Carroll County, Georgia, on... Continue Reading →
August 31, 1954 Dedication ceremonies were held for an arch bridge crossing the Delaware River between the hamlet of Narrowsburg in Sullivan County, New York; and the village of Darbytown (within the township of Damascus) in Wayne County, Pennsylvania. Construction on this bridge began on April 16, 1953. Approximately 200 people showed up for the... Continue Reading →
“Highway Leaders Meet Here Today,” announced a headline in the June 8, 1925, edition of the Atlantic Constitution. That Monday gathering in Georgia’s capital city was the fourth regional meeting of the Joint Board on Interstate Highways focusing on potential U.S. Highway Numbered System routes. “The meeting is being held as one of a series... Continue Reading →
The third of the 1925 regional meetings of the Joint Board on Interstate Highways was held in a place that had been famously characterized by poet Carl Sanburg (1878-1967) as the City of Big Shoulders. This regional meeting, as with those both past and future, would largely involve having attendees figure out and decide upon... Continue Reading →
Less than two weeks after the first regional meeting focused on potential U.S. Highway Numbered System routes was held in San Francisco, the second of these meetings took place in a major midwestern hub located on the western edge of Missouri. A few days before this gathering in what is now Missouri’s largest city, the... Continue Reading →
In April 1925, the first full-fledged meeting of the Joint Board on Interstate Highways took place at the headquarters of the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads (BPR) in Washington, D.C. This board, which was chaired by BPR’s chief Thomas H. MacDonald (1881-1957), had been established just a few weeks earlier to work on devising what... Continue Reading →
A pioneering regional system of numbered routes took shape at a meeting of highway officials from each of the six New England states in April 1922. The meeting was hosted by the Automobile Club of American (ACA) and the others in attendance included representatives from the New England Hotel Men’s Association, and the Automobile Blue... Continue Reading →
