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55 goes through STL. I lived off it in Pevely for years (Weir Road, adjacent).
I am on 67, which runs down through SE Missouri, and into Arkansas.
Interesting. Never heard of US-67 before.
I occasionally get into reading about US highways and interstates, especially their terminuses. Yeah, rather arbitrary stuff, but I'm somehow drawn to it.
Somewhat related is I also get a real kick out of what I call "the last house", which is a situation along a road/highway where it's one house after another, and then suddenly a confluence of roads/highways. A "last house" borders on such. And since we're generally talking places of significant traffic, I often wonder what it's like to live in such.
We owned a "last house" of sorts several years ago that we AirBNB'd. It didn't start out that way, but changes to a railway situation in that town led to the house/property becoming isolated except by way of an alley. <Deity>, I'll never forget when the train company people rode some of their huge equipment through our yard, creating significant yard divots.. and then also put up some kind of non-trivial electronic board right on the border of our lot. Much taking of photos, angry email and phone calls. It led only to minimal repair, and we couldn't see "lawyering up" leading to much more than ongoing frustration.
We managed to sell for a small profit, so apparently others still saw value where we saw "writing on the wall".