DALLAS–FORT WORTH / HISTORIC PHOTOGRAPHS

Dallas freeway opening ceremonies

1959–1968 · Three photographs

A crash, a branding iron and a laser marked three Dallas freeway openings. These photographs preserve the ceremonies for Stemmons Freeway and two sections of LBJ Freeway.

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Opening day on Stemmons Freeway, December 1959.

1959–1968 · 3 photographs

Three ways to open a freeway

Stemmons Freeway opening ceremony
**Crash** Opening ceremony for the Stemmons Freeway, December 1959.

LBJ Freeway branding-iron ceremony
**Burn** Ribbon burning with an LBJ branding iron, opening of first section of LBJ, March 1967.

LBJ Freeway laser ribbon burning
**Burn** Ribbon burning with a laser, late 1968 opening of a 10 mile section in northeast Dallas.

Stemmons Freeway opening ceremony

LBJ Freeway branding-iron ceremony

LBJ Freeway laser ribbon burning