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<blockquote data-quote="Rob Oechsle" data-source="post: 637" data-attributes="member: 160"><p>KOKUSAI STREET OPENS FOR TRAFFIC back in 1934, after TWO YEARS OF CONSTRUCTION --- WITH A COUPLE OF KINKS IN IT !!!</p><p></p><p>No Problem. The Post-War USCAR Government would get in there and straighten it out during the early 1950s, giving us the basic look it has today, crossing over two low hills and two rivers on its one-mile run from end to end. Of course, it wasn't called "Kokusai Street" back then, as the name change was still (ahem) away down the road.</p><p></p><p>Enjoy the pics of the beer-drinking politicians, and folks trekking down the carpet of crushed coral.</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH]1818[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>The Okinawan members of this forum will have some fun with the old Japanese text in this pre-war Ryukyu Shimpo story from 1934. Cheers!</p><p></p><p>I feel pretty confident that the larger view was taken looking toward the north (Asato) end, from a now-gone rocky knoll that once was right HERE:</p><p>[gmape]26.215611,127.686167[/gmape]</p><p></p><p>Today, the road would be coming straight at you, and not make that jog to the left.</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH]1817[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Kokusai Street followed this "almost straight" path for about 20 years until USCAR straightened and widened it during the early 1950s, into what we see and enjoy today.</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH]1819[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rob Oechsle, post: 637, member: 160"] KOKUSAI STREET OPENS FOR TRAFFIC back in 1934, after TWO YEARS OF CONSTRUCTION --- WITH A COUPLE OF KINKS IN IT !!! No Problem. The Post-War USCAR Government would get in there and straighten it out during the early 1950s, giving us the basic look it has today, crossing over two low hills and two rivers on its one-mile run from end to end. Of course, it wasn't called "Kokusai Street" back then, as the name change was still (ahem) away down the road. Enjoy the pics of the beer-drinking politicians, and folks trekking down the carpet of crushed coral. [CENTER][ATTACH alt="Ryukyu Shimpo article on the Kokusai Street opening day parade on May 23, 1934"]1818[/ATTACH][/CENTER] The Okinawan members of this forum will have some fun with the old Japanese text in this pre-war Ryukyu Shimpo story from 1934. Cheers! I feel pretty confident that the larger view was taken looking toward the north (Asato) end, from a now-gone rocky knoll that once was right HERE: [gmape]26.215611,127.686167[/gmape] Today, the road would be coming straight at you, and not make that jog to the left. [CENTER][ATTACH alt="What is now Kokusai Street opened on May 22, 1934 after two years of construction"]1817[/ATTACH][/CENTER] Kokusai Street followed this "almost straight" path for about 20 years until USCAR straightened and widened it during the early 1950s, into what we see and enjoy today. [CENTER][ATTACH alt="Kokusai Dori in 1946"]1819[/ATTACH][/CENTER] [/QUOTE]
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