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ENTRANCE SIGN AT BEGINNING OF ARROYO SECO PARKWAY IN PASADENA AT INTERSECTION OF ARROYO SECO PARKWAY AND WALLIS ST. LOOKING 130° SE. - Arroyo Seco Parkway, Los Angeles to Pasadena, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA
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California State Department of Highways; Courtelyou, Spencer V; City of Los Angeles; Aldrich, Lloyd; City of Pasadena; Hincks, Harvey W; City of South Pasadena; Clough, Frank H; Automobile Club of Southern California; East, Ernest E; Works Progress Administration; Public Works Administration; U.S. Bureau of Public Roads; Johnston Andrew, field team; Brown, Christopher B, field team; Dalbey, Christopher, field team; Gonzalez, Arabella, field team; Mainster, Sydney, field team; Hao, Peter, field team; Grogan, Brian, photographer; Gruen, J Philip, historian; Lee, Portia, historian
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ENTRANCE SIGN AT BEGINNING OF ARROYO SECO PARKWAY IN PASADENA AT INTERSECTION OF ARROYO SECO PARKWAY AND WALLIS ST. LOOKING 130° SE. - Arroyo Seco Parkway, Los Angeles to Pasadena, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA
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English: The Arroyo Seco Parkway, northern entrance in Pasadena, California.
Depicted place California; Los Angeles County; Los Angeles
Date Documentation compiled after 1968
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HAER CAL,19-LOSAN,83-39
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: The Arroyo Seco Parkway (Pasadena Freeway) was the first divided-lane, high-speed, limited-access road in the urban western United States and the first stretch of road for what would become the extensive Los Angeles freeway network. The approximately six-mile initial stage of the 8.2-mile roadway, completed in 1940, was envisioned as both a scenic road traversing the Arroyo and a vital traffic conduit linking the expanding cities of Pasadena and Los Angeles. Engineers and planners attempted to blend landscaping and native plants into the overall design while implementing safety features appropriate for high-speed travel. Construction proceeded alongside the installation of the federally assisted Arroyo Seco Flood Control Channel, necessary to ameliorate seasonal flooding. As road construction proceeded southward towards downtown Los Angeles in the early 1940s, the road began to more closely resemble a high-speed freeway. As a prominent example of the evolution from recreational parkways to more utilitarian high-speed freeways, the Arroyo Seco Parkway marks an important stage in the history of American transportation engineering.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N735
  • Survey number: HAER CA-265
  • Building/structure dates: 1938-1953 Initial Construction
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ca2755.photos.382728p
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Object location34° 03′ 07.99″ N, 118° 14′ 34.01″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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