Hwys. 66/67 & Hwys. 80/20

I grew up back when highway 66 was actually 67 and the only major thoroughfare  to get to Greenville and other towns going towards the Arkansas/Louisiana borders.  I can remember when they started building the first bridge that was to cross the coming Lake.  That lake would become Lake Ray Hubbard and be one of the Texas lakes that was man made.  I was in high school when the bridge that would help open the new highway was built.  Our high school band went out and played at the opening of the new stretch of Highway 67 through our small town of Royse City.  I remember them diverting the traffic from what became CR 66 to the new Interstate 30, Highway 67. When the second bridge at Rockwall was finished, they then connected them to the new freeway, and started letting water out of the spillway at Lake Lavon.  During this time another new interstate was being built, with it's own set of bridges. That became Interstate 20, Highway 80 which connected the other routes we know today.  The overflow from Lake Lavon is how Lake Ray Hubbard was filled and eventually became the lake is it today.  All this work took several years, and many millions of dollars to complete.