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Photograph was edited for publication purposes Photograph article dated November 14, 1961 partially reads, "How large television receivers on the freeways can speed commuter traffic was scheduled to be demonstrated today to the Los Angeles City Council. The plan...was born early in the year, when a butane truck overturned on the Hollywood Freeway. Jim Moran, an administrative assistant to Supervisor Warren Dorn, was stranded in the tie-up...If there had been a way of warning motorists what lay ahead, most of them could have turned off the freeway, Moran thought. That night he sketched a quick design of a closed circuit television system which would monitor the freeways and flash information to travelers." Los Angeles councilwoman Rosalind Wyman and Supervisor Warren Dorn are seen demonstrating the new freeway control device scheduled to be tested on the Hollywood Freeway.
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Dorn, Warren M Wyman, Rosalind Wiener City council members--California--Los Angeles County council members--California--Los Angeles County Traffic engineering--California--Los Angeles Traffic monitoring--California--Los Angeles Traffic monitoring--California--Los Angeles--Equipment and supplies Traffic signs and signals--California--Los Angeles Closed-circuit television--California--Los Angeles Telephone calls--California--Los Angeles Telephones Group portraits Portrait photographs Valley Times Collection photographs
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