- Title
- A California Highway
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- Date
- 1938
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- Description
- A view looking south along the coast, with a house on the beach in the foreground.
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- Format Extent
- 1 postcard : Color ; 9 x 14 cm.
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- Subject
- Beaches--California--Malibu; Roads--California--Malibu; Dwellings--California--Malibu
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- Note
- By the early twentieth century, tourists and residents were traveling to the beach in private cars rather than by mass transit. A popular travel route was the beach road that ran along the beach along the Santa Monica Bay, once known as Sunset Beach. This road was widened by the city of Santa Monica in 1914 and was named Palisades Beach Road in 1915. By 1916, the two lane road was paved and reinforced with concrete. Palisades Beach Road later became known as Roosevelt Highway and is part of the California State Route 1 that extends 548 miles along the Pacific Coast line, beginning near San Juan Capistrano on the South and extending North through Mendocino County. In the late 1940s, the road along the Palisades beaches was expanded into a six-lane highway, and in the late 1950s, became known as Pacific Coast Highway, or, more commonly, PCH. Malibu was originally inhabited by the Chumash, but was settled in 1802 by Spanish settler Jose Bartolome Tapia. Tapia established a rancho and built a large adobe in Malibu Canyon which was passed down through the family before being sold to Matthew Keller in 1857. Keller's son, Henry, sold the property to Frederick Hastings Rindge in 1892. The Rindges fought lengthy legal battles to prevent the construction of the highway through their land in the 1910s and 20s.
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- Collection
- Werner von Boltenstern Postcard Collection
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- Type
- ["Postcards"]
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- Geographic Location
- Pacific Coast Highway; California Highway 1 (Calif.); Malibu (Calif.)
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- Language
- eng
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