Old Highways Still Have Beauty, Small Talk, Cafes / Tall Trees, Friendly Folks and Old Fashioned Cobbler Still Found beyond in State

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EDITOR'S NOTE: This is another in a series of "see Oklahoma" columns .

"Okie Farmers "Love Their Land Throw Your Junk in a Can" -Farm Bureau

Remember the Burma Shave signs on the old U.S. Highways?

Well, this similar series of signs by the Farm Bureau showed up recently on old State Hwy. 9, east of Stigler and Keota. It started me to thinking about how much we miss these days, traveling on interstate freeways.

That old personal experience, of waving to people, reading signs and stopping now and then, is almost gone. It used to be that getting there was part of the fun, but that has changed.

Driving an interstate freeway is almost like …