Tulsa Route 66: East Meets West - Oklahoma, USA.
N 36° 08.671 W 096° 00.193
14S E 769636 N 4004139
The East is meeting The West on Route 66 one of America's iconic highways. A landmark Sculpture representing Old Oklahoma & the Mother Road. Located on Cyrus Avery Centennial Plaza, alongside Route 66, Tulsa.
Waymark Code: WMMWFG
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 11/15/2014
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This amazing sculpture is commemorates Cyrus Avery, who is credited as being the Father of the Mother road & helped create the national highway system.
From the News on 6 Web site:
"The sculpture has been in the works for nearly 10 years.
It's dedicated to Cyrus Avery, who helped create the national highway system, and it's a representation of old Oklahoma and Route 66.
The piece is fittingly named East Meets West. It depicts Cyrus Avery in his Model T, along with his wife, daughter and her pet cat.
The artist, Robert Summers, said the Averys are stopped after pulling up on an unsuspecting oil field waggoneer and his team of horses.
It's a scenario Summers said was common in the late ‘20s.
"And the horses, especially back in that day and period, when they'd never seen an automobile, didn't know how to react when they saw those loud, smelly machines, you know?" Summers said.
Summers, of course, is proud of his masterpiece, but said there's one thing he could have done without: the family cat.
He said creating the cat's reaction to all the noise that would have been going on was difficult.
"Mr. Avery's daughters' cat, Helen, I think her name was, and they said she was inseparable to that cat, so she's got to be there," Summers said. "So, I finally said, ‘Okay.'"
But he made it work and made sure the waggoneer's faithful dog was aware of his feline friend.
"If this works out right, the little dog is over there eyeing that cat in the car," Summer said." Text Source: (
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