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Highway Map of the County of Santa Clara, California; see full image below Identifier: californiahighwa00blow (find matches) Title: California highways; a descriptive record of road development by the state and by such counties as have paved highways Year: 1920 Authors: Blow, Ben, 1868-Subjects: Roads Publisher: San Francisco
September 25, 1997. View of the route, 1920. The Ridge Route, officially the Castaic–Tejon Route and colloquially known as the Grapevine, [ 3] was a two-lane highway between Los Angeles County and Kern County, California. Opened in 1915 and paved with concrete between 1917 and 1921, the road was the first paved highway directly linking the ...
The city's population skyrocketed from 102,000 at the turn of the century, to 577,000 in 1920, and over 1.2 million in 1929. Aerial view of UCLA (formerly the University of California, Southern Branch) taken in 1922. Propelled by the boom in 1920s, it became the fifth largest city in the US.
v. t. e. The state highway system in the U.S. state of California dates back to 1896, when the state took over maintenance of the Lake Tahoe Wagon Road. Before then, roads and streets were managed exclusively by local governments. Construction of a statewide highway system began in 1912, after the state's voters approved an $18 million bond ...
The former Thomas Bros. building, 17731 Cowan, Irvine, California. Thomas Guide is a series of paperback, spiral-bound atlases featuring detailed street maps of various large metropolitan areas in the United States, including Boise, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Oakland, Phoenix, Portland, Reno-Tahoe, Sacramento, San Francisco, Seattle, Tucson, and Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area.
State Route 74 SR 74 highlighted in red Route information Maintained by Caltrans Length 111.471 mi (179.395 km) SR 74 is broken into pieces, and the length does not reflect the overlaps that would be required to make the route continuous. Existed 1934 –present Tourist routes Pines to Palms Scenic Byway Major junctions West end I-5 in San Juan Capistrano Major intersections I-15 in Lake ...
California became an American cultural phenomenon; the idea of the "California Dream" as a portion of the larger American Dream of finding a better life drew 35 million new residents from the start to the end of the 20th century (1900–2010). [ 1] Silicon Valley became the world's center for computer innovation.
History of Oakland, California. The history of Oakland, a city in the county of Alameda, California, can be traced back to the founding of a settlement by Horace Carpentier, Edson Adams, and Andrew Moon in the 19th century. The area now known as Oakland had seen human occupation for thousands of years, but significant growth in the settlements ...