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Title: Opening ceremony for Ridge Route Alternate Highway, Los Angeles County, 1933
Date Created and/or Issued: October 29, 1933
1933-10-29
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
The Ridge Route Alternate Highway was dedicated on October 29, 1933. It established a quicker and safer route from Los Angeles to San Joaquin Valley.
A different photograph taken on the same occasion appears with the article, "New Highway Project Open," Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct 1933: A1.
Crowd gathers at a stretch of highway between Castaic Lake and Gorman for dedication ceremony.
Text from negative sleeve: opening ceremony alternate ridge route
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_2560
ark:/21198/zz002dcbt7
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Roads--California--Los Angeles County
Rites & ceremonies--California--Los Angeles County
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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