MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION Benefits of All Memberships: ABOUT THE  Membership card Please fill out, include your check or money order made out  Association quarterly newsletter to the Route 66 Association (in U.S.funds on a OKLAHOMA U.S. based bank) and mail to the address below.  Proud Member window cling ROUTE 66  One vote at Association general meetings TYPE OF ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP: (please circle) ASSOCIATION Individual…………………………….$20.00 YEAR

Additional Benefits of Kid’s Club Membership  Free Gift (one free per paid membership) Family……………………………….. $30.00 YEAR We are a not-for profit organization made up of  Free admission to certain Association events volunteers who are dedicated to the promotion Kids Club……………………………. $10.00 YEAR  Souvenir postcards and preservation of Route 66. Overseas………………………………$30.00 YEAR Additional Benefits of Business Membership As a group, we strive to…  One free business card size ad in the newsletter Business……………………………….$49.00 YEAR upon joining/renewing  Free listing in newsletter and Trip Guide Benefactor……………………………………………  Work with communities and businesses Bronze Silver Gold Platinum Titanium to promote economic development and business directories $200/year $300/year $500/year $1000/year $2000/year help enhance, improve, preserve, and  Quantity of Trip Guides to distribute Date______recognize U.S. Route 66 in Oklahoma in  Opportunity to purchase advertising in Trip Name______Guide at special membership rate their area.  Website listing/link on our website Business Name______ Business information distributed through Child’s Name for Kid’s Club______ Distribute information and share Association traveling booth and at office Address______ Product discount to purchase Route 66 items resources about Route 66. City______ An opportunity to be a checkpoint on State______Zip______ Identify sites of historic or cultural Association cruises  Route 66 shield window sign Country______significance along the Route and Home phone______promote efforts to preserve Route 66 Additional Benefits of Benefactor Membership: landmarks.  An honorary member of the Board of Trustees. Business phone______ Included in Association publications by level of Fax number______membership unless the member requests not to E-mail address______ Make available a speaker’s bureau to be included. present programs about Route 66.  Other privileges of membership Credit Card Type & Expiration Date ______ Membership certificate Credit Card Number______ Organize events and fundraisers. Signature______

Write or call us for Oklahoma Route 66 travel information… Membership in our Association is open to anyone, A qualified member may pay a lump sum fee OKLAHOMA ROUTE 66 ASSOCIATION from any state or nation, who cares about Route 66 equal to 10 times the amount of the current P.O. Box 446 and all it represents. We need people like you to help membership dues and become a lifetime 400 East Route 66 Chandler, OK 74834 us celebrate, preserve and explore this uniquely member of the Association. American phenomenon that appeals to people from 405-258-0008 around the world. www.oklahomaroute66.com [email protected] CELEBRATE, PRESERVE OKLAHOMA- & EXPLORE BIRTHPLACE OF ROUTE 66 OKLAHOMA ROUTE 66

Through the Oklahoma Route 66 Association Route 66, America’s most beloved highway, was born right here in Oklahoma. Cyrus Avery, a Tulsa STATE OF OKLAHOMA businessman and promoter of good roads, spearheaded the PROCLAMATION national committee that created the U.S. Highway System OK Scenic Byways Program in 1926. He championed a to route that dropped south through Oklahoma, then turned west Route 66 Scenic Byway through , , and . Avery also picked the now famous double sixes as the new road’s Whereas the Route 66 Scenic Byway is one of official number. Oklahoma’s most cherished treasures: and

After World War II, Oklahoma was the home of the Whereas the Route 66 Association has applied for National Highway 66 Association, the group responsible Scenic Byway designation for the drive as an Membership Application Oklahoma Scenic Byway: and for the promotion of Route 66 on a nationwide basis.

Ironically, Oklahoma was the first state to deal the Route Whereas the Oklahoma Scenic Byways Advisory its first official deathblow. In 1953, the Turner Turnpike Council has reviewed the application and (I-44) between Tulsa and opened, recommended official state byway designation of the bypassing 100 miles of the legendary road. Then the new scenic drive: and four-lane, straight-as-an-arrow interstate system gobbled up section after section. By the mid 1980s, it was over— Whereas the drive is a route of such magnitude as to the entire Route had been bypassed. America’s favorite qualify for the state Scenic Byway classification within highway was just a legend. the Oklahoma Scenic Byways program.

Funny thing about legends…they don’t die. Although Therefore the Oklahoma Cabinet Secretary for many shops and motels along the Road closed, others Transportation on behalf of the Oklahoma Scenic hung in there and waited. It took a few years, but then the Byways program and the people of the great State of Europeans and Americans alike began to rediscover the Oklahoma does hereby proclaim the Route 66 Scenic warmth, nostalgia, and wonderful diversity that permeate Byway as an official Oklahoma Scenic Byway. the 2,400 miles of Route 66. Phil Tomlinson In 1989, the Oklahoma legislature recognized the need for OK Cabinet Secretary of Transportation an agency to handle the preservation and promotion of Oklahoma Route 66. Soon thereafter, the Oklahoma Route 66 Association was born. We were the first state to design and install the distinctive historic markers and we are home to the first state-sponsored Route 66 Museum in the nation.

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