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Title
Arroyo Seco Parkway
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1958
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
The Figueroa Street Tunnels are four art deco tunnels with subway-tile walls originally built between 1931 and 1935 on Figueroa Street in Elysian Park. In 1940 they were incorporated into California State Route 110/Arroyo Seco Parkway (Pasadena Freeway).
Aerial view of the California State Route 110/Arroyo Seco Parkway, the Figueroa Street Tunnels, and Elysian Park. Photograph dated February 20, 1958.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00058323
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 226
CARL0000060405
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/21977
Subject
Express highways--California, Southern
Tunnels--California--Los Angeles
Railroads--California--Los Angeles
Mountains--California, Southern
Santa Monica Mountains (Calif.)
Elysian Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Figueroa Street Tunnels (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Arroyo Seco Parkway (Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Aerial photographs
Time Period
1951-1960

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