- Title
- Cahuenga Freeway, Gateway to Hollywood, California
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- Date
- 1947
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- Description
- A view of Cahuenga Boulevard Parkway with the bridge at Mulholland Drive, looking south, surrounded by the Santa Monica Mountains. Railroad tracks run down the middle of the Parkway, and pass roads are on either side.
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- Format Extent
- 1 postcard : Color ; 9 x 14 cm.
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- Subject
- Express highways--California--Los Angeles--Design and construction; Traffic engineering--California--Los Angeles;
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- Note
- Since the late 1700s, the Cahuenga Pass has been a major travel route from the Los Angeles Basin to the San Fernando Valley. In 1926, the route, known as Cahuenga Boulevard, was widened to four lanes, but by 1930 this was not meeting the needs of the growing community. Los Angeles City engineer Lloyd Aldrich designed the new Cahuenga Parkway with four lanes in each direction, separated by the tracks for the Pacific Electric Railroad. Funding for the project was approved in 1938, and the first segment was finished in 1940. By 1944 the Railroad stopped running and the tracks were removed to accommodate another lane of traffic. Three bridges connecting service roads would be built at the Pilgrimage Theater (now the John Anson Ford Theater), Mulholland Drive and Barham Boulevard. In 1954, the final segment of the Hollywood Freeway through the original Cahuenga Pass connected to the Arroyo Seco Parkway (later renamed the Pasadena Freeway).
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- Collection
- Werner von Boltenstern Postcard Collection
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- Type
- ["Postcards"]
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- Geographic Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.); Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.); Cahuenga Freeway (Los Angeles, Calif.)
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- Language
- eng
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