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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Catt57" data-source="post: 4140162" data-attributes="member: 34578">Looking though more old maps I figured out that the Grand Blvd loop never had any bridges over the North Canadian River (now the Oklahoma River through OKC).  It looks like 1962 was as complete as the loop ever got.It was overlaid by I-35 at the river on the east and by I-44 at the river on the west, then Hwy74 follows the west side of it north.  The north edge is once again aligned with I-44 for a ways.  In many places it has been relegated to a Hwy service road.  It looks like when the highway funds came through in the mid-late 1960s, the plan for Grand Blvd was abandoned.It currently does not exist between NW10th and Reno on the east side of the loop, And is absent between SW36th and NW10th on the west side.  Although it appears Gordon Cooper Blvd is at least part of the old Grand Blvd just renamed.</blockquote>