Route 66 - Great Transcontinental Footrace Winner - Foyil, Oklahoma, USA.
N 36° 25.618 W 095° 31.669
15S E 273386 N 4034276
Andy Hartley Payne won the 1928, Transcontinental Footrace, a 3,400 mile race from Los Angeles to New York City, 2,400 miles of the route was along the then new Route 66, the Race was organised in order to Promote the Mother Road.
Waymark Code: WMMVJ5
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 11/09/2014
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A lonely Statue in a lonely park, it also seems that Andy was lonely for most of the 84 days that he spent running the race, conceived to promote The Mother Road. The race was from Los Angeles to Chicago & then another 1000 miles onto New York. It was worth the effort as the first prize was $25,000. Payne used the money to pay off the debt on his father's farm, and married his sweetheart.
"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: (
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From the Full Wiki - Web site.
"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: (
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