- Title
- Arroyo-Seco Parkway, Los Angeles-Pasadena, California
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- Date
- 1941
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- Description
- A view of the Arroyo-Seco Parkway, with park-like landscape on either side, and trees growing in the center divider.
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- Format Extent
- 1 postcard : Color ; 9 x 14 cm.
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- Subject
- Parkways--California--Pasadena; Roads--California--Pasadena; Parkways--California--Los Angeles; Roads--California--Los Angeles;
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- Note
- The Arroyo Seco Parkway connects Los Angeles with Pasadena and runs along the Arroyo Seco canyon, a riverbed that remains dry most of the year. In 1927, a parkway was proposed running alongside the arroyo seco, extending 10.5 miles from a point slightly north of the Rose Bowl to the Los Angeles River. However, due to lack of funding during the Great Depression and controversy over building a roadway through park land, construction was delayed until the 1930s. The first segment opened on January 4, 1939, and the entire parkway opened on December 30, 1940, earning it the title of the first freeway in the West. Construction continued for the next 13 years on another segment extending to the south, which included converting the Figueroa Street bypass roadway to a freeway where it passes through Elysian Park. The freeway was later renamed the Pasadena Freeway, and then California State Route 110. During the 1940s, the tunnels were brought up to freeway standards and made part of the Pasadena Freeway, sometimes called the Arroyo Seco Parkway.
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- Collection
- Werner von Boltenstern Postcard Collection
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- Type
- ["Postcards"]
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- Geographic Location
- Pasadena (Calif.); Los Angeles (Calif.); United States Highway 66
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- Language
- eng
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