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Title
Mud-covered Roosevelt Highway US 101A
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1941
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
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Description
This section of Pacific Coast Highway was formally dedicated as the 'Theodore Roosevelt Highway' when it was completed in 1929 and was generally known as the 'Roosevelt Highway' or 'Coast Highway' in the 1930s. It was designated as US 101A (Alternate) in 1936. State legislative action in 1964 changed many highway numbers in California, and US 101A became CA 1. In the same year, the state legislature offically named CA 1 'Pacific Coast Highway' in Orange, Los Angeles and Ventura Counties..
Photograph caption dated February 20, 1941 reads, "Turned into a sea of mud by the near cloudburst rainstorm, the Roosevelt highway is shown after a landslide covered the road between Bel-Air and the Thelma Todd cafe. Five trucks were stalled in the muck."
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00043294
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 8787
CARL0000048973
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/15302
Subject
Mudslides--California--Los Angeles
Roads--California--Los Angeles
Floods--California--Los Angeles
Storms--California--Los Angeles
Automobiles--California--Los Angeles
Pacific Palisades (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Pacific Coast Highway
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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