Hollywood FreewayĪt the time this photo was taken circa May 1971, the Foothill Freeway ended at the Arcadia city limits. Highway 101), one of L.A.'s first the Harbor Freeway (Interstate 110) the Santa Monica Freeway (Interstate 10) the San Diego Freeway (Interstate 405) and the Foothill Freeway (Interstate 210). They show construction work on five Southern California freeways: the Hollywood Freeway (U.S. The photos below, culled from several regional archives, illustrate that junction between L.A.'s pre- and post-freeway eras, when work crews built bridges and on-ramps but also razed houses and split neighborhoods.
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Movie stars and governors christened the new concrete rivers, and many Southern Californians drove to construction sites to pose in photographs of half-built highways rising from the ground. Southern California welcomed them with the pomp and circumstance usually reserved for foreign dignitaries.
In the twenty years between 19, more than 500 miles of freeways were built in L.A., Orange, and Ventura counties. Courtesy of the Glendale Public Library.Īs Angeleños prepare to survive the upcoming weekend without access to a ten-mile section of the San Diego Freeway, our thoughts may turn to L.A.'s pre-freeway era, a time before it was possible to cruise through the Los Angeles basin at 70 miles per hour, a time when freeway construction was an occasion for celebrity photo-ops rather than an excuse to coin apocalyptic portmanteaux. A woman poses in front of the unfinished Foothill Freeway.
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