Vintage cars first vehicles to ride freeway extension
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator
Dean, Gordon
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
Photograph was edited for publication purposes Photograph caption dated July 17, 1962 reads, "Early model cars break tape to become first vehicles officially to ride on new one-mile section of the Hollywood Freeway, during dedication ceremonies Monday. Built at a cost of $2.26 million, the stretch extends northward to Magnolia Blvd. in North Hollywood from the junction of the Ventura and Hollywood Freeways. It is the first section of a link that will connect the Hollywood and the Golden State Freeways. Ceremonies opening the freeway were sponsored by the North Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and the Valleywide Committee on Streets, Highways and Transportation. Public officials attending the dedication included Valley Assemblymen Tom Bane and Tom Carrell. The three old cars belong to the Horseless Carriage Club."
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
Bane, Tom J.,--1913-1999 Carrell, Thomas C.,--1900-1972 North Hollywood Chamber of Commerce Horseless Carriage Club of Southern California Antique and classic cars--California--Los Angeles Dedications--California--North Hollywood (Los Angeles) Express highways--California, Southern Automobiles--California--Los Angeles Podiums--California--Los Angeles Microphones Legislators--United States North Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) United States Highway 101 Valley Times Collection photographs
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