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Title: Shadow lanes tried out in Van Nuys
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1955
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: Photograph was edited for publication purposes
Photograph caption dated September 23, 1955 reads, "Special left turn only lanes, known as shadow lanes, are being used in Van Nuys on Van Nuys boulevard from Oxnard to Vanowen streets. This view is looking north on Van Nuys at Victory boulevard. Left turn lane is immediately to the left of normal center line. This is first time in Los Angeles such lanes have been painted on rather than constructed of raised concrete or bars."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00116492
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d018_f17_i6
CARL0005326043
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/49806
Subject: Traffic engineering--California--Los Angeles
Left-turn lanes--California--Los Angeles
Streets--California--Van Nuys (Los Angeles)
Automobiles--California--Los Angeles
Stores & shops--California--Van Nuys (Los Angeles)
Storefronts--California--Van Nuys (Los Angeles)
Signs and signboards--California--Van Nuys (Los Angeles)
Billboards--California--Van Nuys (Los Angeles)
Neon signs--California--Van Nuys (Los Angeles)
Sidewalks--California--Van Nuys (Los Angeles)
Street lighting--California--Los Angeles
Van Nuys Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Victory Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Van Nuys (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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