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Title: On the Roosevelt Highway North of Santa Monica, California
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1930
Contributing Institution: Pepperdine University, Special Collections and University Archives
Collection: Eric Wienberg Collection of Malibu Matchbooks, Postcards, and Collectables
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Description: Just north/west of Malibu, cars pass around the south side of Bass Rock at Point Mugu. A narrow road was blasted around the headlands of the rock in 1924 to connect Oxnard with Malibu in anticipation of a state highway linked with Santa Monica. This narrow coastal road around Point Mugu turned out to be so risky to travelers that it gained the name "Dead Man's Rock." [Source: Nathan Masters, KCET]
Type: Image
Identifier: http://cdm15730.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15730coll18/id/1014
Subject: Mugu, Point (Calif.)
Malibu Historical Collection
Source: Eric Wienberg Collection of Malibu Matchbooks, Postcards, and Ephemera 0129: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8w95gpb
Relation: Eric Wienberg Collection of Malibu Matchbooks, Postcards, and Collectables

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