For most of the city’s history, Mesa’s historic Main Street was the main highway that connected the town to its neighbors and to the rest of the United States. From the early 1930s to 1969, this highway actually consisted of four U.S. highways. These were the 60, 70, 80, and 89. The first three all ran east-west connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. U.S. 89 was known as the “National Park Highway” for connecting seven major national parks in the Mountain West. The survivor of these highways is U.S. 60, which left Main Street in 1992 for its current route as the “Superstition Freeway.” | Date: 2016Download Original File
