Kansas Turnpike Entrance

EASTERN ENTRANCE TO KANSAS TURNPIKE

This four-lane superhighway divided from end to end by a 20-foot depressed median represents the latest in highway design, construction, and safety. The $160,000,000 Kansas Turnpike was built by private capital without cost to the Kansas taxpayers.

Greetings from Kansas

"The Sunflower State"

 

Welcome to Kansas

"WELCOME TO KANSAS"

These signs appear on all major highways as you cross the State Line to enter the sunflower State.

 

All You Can Eat for 97¢

IN GARDEN CITY, KANSAS

The Serv-Ur-Self Cafe is located on U.S. 50 Hiway, 5 Blocks East of Main Street. Owned and Operated Daily, by John E. and Joan Holmes. We invite your patronage and dare you to leave hungry.

 

Can-Can Girls

OLD ABILENE TOWN

Abilene, Kansas

Can-Can Girls at the Alamo Saloon

World Food Fair 1961

KANSAS

The breadbasket of the world

The first World Food Fair held in the United States was in Topeka, Kansas as a featured event in the state's 1961 Centennial observances.

Geographic Center of 48 U.S. States

THE GEOGRAPHIC CENTER

OF THE UNITED STATES

Near LEBANON, KANSAS

Kansas Wheatland

A field of wheat and a giant loaf of bread symbolize the role of Kansas as "Wheatland, U. S. A".

Greetings from Kansas Turnpike

KANSAS TURNPIKE

One of the world's most beautiful and modern superhighways. there are no rail or highway grade crossings, stop lights or few of the hazards encountered on regular traffic-jammed highways.

Map: Kansas Turnpike

Greetings from the Kansas Turnpike, the midwest's most modern super hi-way.*

* built from 1954 to 1956, predating the Interstate Highway System

signed by artist Gene McConnell '56

Map: Greetings from Kansas

Map: Travel the Perfect 36

Greetings from Kansas

Gene McConnell — Artist

1956

Centennial of Travel

WAGON HO

Quintor, Kansas

Wagon Ho is an organization that recreates the past by taking covered wagon trips of the old Smoky Hill Trail.

Welcome to Liberal, Kansas

"GATEWAY TO THE LAND OF AHS"

Kansas Turnpike Restaurant

Interior view of one of the six beautiful restaurants on the new Kansas Turnpike. These restaurants, operated by the Olympic House of Kansas, offer the finest in dining and have attractive gift shops with a wide variety of gifts for every occasion.

Prehistoric Indian Burial Site

 

FAMOUS INDIAN BURIAL PIT

Located 4½ miles east of Salina, Kansas, on Highway 40, is a notable archeological discovery. It contains more than 140 skeletal remains of prehistoric Indians.

Welcome to Kansas

WELCOME SIGNS ON KANSAS HIWAYS

World's Largest Grain Elevators

 

GREETINGS FROM KANSAS

Some of the World's largest grain elevators are located in Kansas, the nation's largest producer of wheat. It is known as the "Bread Basket of the World."

Check All Guns

Greetings from

OLD ABILENE, KANSAS