Historic US Highway ends in Kingman AZ
Photo credits: Alan
Hamilton
| Highway | Approx. time period |
|---|---|
| US 466 | 1936-1969 |
| US 93 | 1936-1965 |
The photo below is looking east down Beale Street, which served as US 66 until sometime in the 1960s (it's hard to make out, but there's a "Historic 66" sign next to the traffic signal):
Eastbound US 66 came in from the right, through where the little park in the middleground is now, and then straight ahead on Beale. Starting in 1936, southbound US 93 and eastbound US 466 came in from Las Vegas and ended at the junction with US 66, right about in this spot.
Later US 66 was re-routed along Andy Devine Avenue - a newer bypass running one block to the south (right) of Beale - which is now designated Business Loop I-40. The little park shown above was built then, to encourage traffic to stay off Beale; that's why this intersection looks different now than it did originally. So after the early 1960s, US 93/466 angled to the right, to intersect Andy Devine in one block. That intersection is shown below.
The cross street is Andy Devine, or the "new" route 66. So US 93/466 ended here for a few years. In 1965 the US 93 designation was extended further south, and then in 1969 Arizona got rid of the US 466 designation in their state.