Identifier	clloy_135
Title	Conejo Grade, Coast Highway
Creator	Unknown
Date Published	circa 1930
Subject (Topic)	Roads--California--Los Angeles; Mountain roads--California--Los Angeles; Roads--California--Ventura County; Mountain roads--California--Ventura County;
Subject (Place)	Conejo Valley (Calif.); United States Highway 101;
Type	image
Form/Genre	Postcards
Physical Description	1 postcard : Color ; 9 x 14 cm.
Institution	Department of Archives and Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library, Loyola Marymount University
Country of Creation	US
Copyright Status	public domain
Copyright Statement	http://library.lmu.edu/collections/digitallibraryprogram/copyrightandreproductionpolicy/
Publisher	Western Publishing & Novelty Co.
Place of Publication	Los Angeles, Calif.
Language	eng
Description	A view of a sharp turn in the road along the Conejo Grade.
Historical Background	The Conejo Grade is a stretch of road approximately 5 miles long, east of Camarillo, connecting Ventura and Santa Barbara to Los Angeles. The land for the Conejo Grade was originally donated by Adolfo Camarillo in the early part of the 20th century. The road later became part of Highway 101. Winding through the mountains, the original road made many sharp curves in order to preserve a fairly level grade, but these "death curves" caused many traffic accidents. In 1929, some of the worst sections of road were realigned, but it was not until 1935 that construction began on rebuiding the conejo grade on a route that roughly followed the original road, but required many cuts and fills in order to reduce the number of curves from 49 to 12, and to increase the radius of those turns that could not be avoided. The road was also widened from 30 to 46 feet. The freeway was widened again in the 1950s. Even after this renovation, some stretches of the original road remain in use as frontage roads along U.S. 101.
Publisher's Identifier	Publisher's serial number: 104181; Series number: 847
Title (Alternative)	Los Angeles to Ventura and Santa Barbara, California
Source	Werner von Boltenstern Postcard Collection