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Title: Motorcade travels spanking new freeway
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1950
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: View of the freeway opening parade. The first motorcade to travel the spanking new freeway link is driving east, back towards downtown. After breaking the dedication ribbon they had travelled to the end of the section at Silver Lake Boulevard, and turned around for the return trip. Capacity for the double four-lane freeway during rush hours is expected to be 10,000 cars an hour. Photo dated: December 27, 1950.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00041077
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 5460C-Hollywood Freeway.
CARL0000045017
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/12826
Subject: Express highways--California, Southern
United States Highway 101
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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