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Mulholland Drive and Franklin Canyon, near Los Angeles, Calif.
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Mulholland Drive and Franklin Canyon, near Los Angeles, Calif.
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Description
Identifier
clloy_194
Title
Mulholland
Drive
and
Franklin
Canyon
,
near
Los
Angeles
,
Calif
.
Creator
Unknown
Date Published
circa
1930
Subject (Topic)
Roads--California--Los
Angeles
;
Mountain
roads--California--Los
Angeles
;
Canyons--California--Los
Angeles
;
Subject (Place)
Mulholland
Drive
(Los
Angeles
,
Calif.)
;
Franklin
Canyon
(Los
Angeles
,
Calif.)
;
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/generalinformation/departments/digitallibraryprogram/copyrightandreproductionpolicy/
Publisher
M
.
Kashower
Co
.
Place of Publication
Los
Angeles
,
Cal
.
Language
eng
Description
A
view
looking
out
over
Mulholland
Drive
and
Franklin
Canyon
in
Los
Angeles
,
California
. The
road
is
unpaved
dirt
and
gravel
, and
winds
sharply
through
the
hills
.
Historical Background
Franklin
Canyon
is
a
3.5-mile
gorge
in the
Santa
Monica
Mountains
above
Beverly
Hills
. In
1914
, the
Los
Angeles
Department
of
Water
and
Power
built
a
reservoir
in
upper
Franklin
Canyon
to
distribute
water
brought
in from the
Owens
Valley
.
Oil
tycoon
Edward
Doheny
built
a
Spanish
style
home
in
lower
Franklin
Canyon
in
1935
,
which
served
as a
family
retreat
. The
canyon
was
slated
for
development
during
the
1970s
, but was
preserved
when
the
National
Park
Service
purchased
the
land
,
making
it
a
part
of the
Santa
Monica
Mountains
National
Recreation
Area
.
Running
through
part
of
Franklin
Canyon
is
Mulholland
Drive
,
named
for
William
Mulholland
, the
head
of the
Los
Angeles
Department
of
Water
and
Power
and
engineer
of the
Los
Angeles
Aqueduct
. The
serpentine
route
,
winding
over
21
miles
from
Leo
Carillo
State
Beach
in the
west
to
Hollywood's
Cahuenga
Pass
in the
east
,
officially
opened
to
great
fanfare
on
December
26
,
1924
.
Publisher's Identifier
Series number: 768; Written in lower left corner of image: "23652"
Additional Notes
Printed
on
textured
paper
.
Source
Werner
von
Boltenstern
Postcard
Collection
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