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Title: Checking depth of ridges, Hollywood Freeway
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1966
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: Don Buchanan of Division of Highways checks depth of ridges being cut in Hollywood Freeway at the dangerous Cahuenga Pass area. This is one example of the continuing work being done in the area to try to reduce the number of accidents in "Slaughter Alley." Ridges will give traction to cars when the freeway is wet and slippery. Photo dated: February 12, 1966.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00041091
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 5460C-Hollywood Freeway.
CARL0000045056
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/12860
Subject: Express highways--California, Southern
Pavements--Skid resistance
United States Highway 101
Cahuenga Pass (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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