Historic Route 66 - Great Transcontinental Footrace Winner - Foyil, Oklahoma, USA. - National Scenic Byways on Waymarking.com

A lonely Statue in a lonely park, it seems that Andy was lonely for most of the 84 days that he spent running the race to promote The Mother Road. From Los Angeles to Chicago & then another 1000 miles onto New York.

"Foyil's Andy Payne, winner of the first International Transcontinental Footrace—also known as the Bunion Derby, which helped put Route 66 on the map." Text Source: (visit link)

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"Andy Hartley Payne (born November 16, 1907, died December 1977) was the winner of the Transcontinental Footrace staged in 1928. He ran the 3,423.5 mile (5,509.6 km) route from Los Angeles to New York City, much of it along U.S. Route 66, in 573 hours, 4 minutes, 34 seconds, (84 days) averaging 6 miles per hour.

The footrace was organized to promote U.S. Route 66 which had recently been built as a simple, well-paved route across the country, and dubbed "the main street of America". First prize was $25,000 which Payne used to pay off the mortgage on his father's farm." Text Source: (visit link)

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Program: America's Byways Website: [Web Link] Official Name: Historic route 66.

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