Not many things survive a century of being American. This road did.
They dedicated it in 1926, when a coast-to-coast drive was still something worth talking about for years afterward. Eight states. Hundreds of small towns existed because the highway ran through them. Generation after generation found themselves on it — some chasing something, some leaving something, most just needing to move. The centennial doesn't just mark a hundred years of road. It marks a hundred years of proof that the American instinct to go — to load up and point west and trust that the road knows something you don't — was never wrong.
