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Historic Route 66: Major junctions; West end: US 101 Alt. / SR 1 in Santa Monica: I-405 in Los Angeles; US 101 in Los Angeles; SR 2 in Los Angeles; I-5 / I-110 / SR 110 in Los Angeles; SR 248 / I-210 in Monrovia; I-15 in Rancho Cucamonga; I-215 in San Bernardino; I-15 in San Bernardino; I-40 in Barstow; US 95 near Needles; East end
Building a resort hotel, such as the still-extant Hotel Del Coronado, at the site of the development, was standard operating procedure for 1880s Southern California land speculators Map of Los Angeles County published October 1893 for the World's Columbian Exposition, after the 1887 boom but before the 1905 boom
Los Angeles Daily News, September 21, 1999, p. N4. ^ Haddad, Paul (2021). Freewaytopia: How Freeways Shaped Los Angeles. Santa Monica Press. ISBN 978-1-59580-786-1. Hise, Greg (1999). Magnetic Los Angeles: Planning the Twentieth-Century Metropolis. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-6255-8. Schrank and T. Lomax, The Urban Mobility ...
Rancho geography remains readily visible in this L.A. County map created the year before the establishment of neighboring Orange County (1888) Federal Writers' Project map of the ranchos of Los Angeles County (1937); appears to be in the same style as many American Guide Series maps so possibly produced but not used for Los Angeles: A Guide to the City and Its Environs
List table of the properties and districts — listed on the California Historical Landmarks in Los Angeles County, Southern California. Note: Click the "Map of all coordinates" link to the right to view a Google map of all properties and districts with latitude and longitude coordinates in the table below.
It was an important artery linking the Los Angeles Basin and inland Ventura County and as such, was part of the main route for travel by stagecoach between Los Angeles and San Francisco from 1861 until the opening of rail traffic between the cities in 1876. The Old Santa Susana Stage Road is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Los Angeles, [a] often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.With an estimated 3,820,914 residents within the city limits as of 2023, [8] it is the second-most populous city in the United States, behind only New York City; it is also the commercial, financial and cultural center of Southern California.
Sections were expanded to four lanes starting in the late 1930s and by 1961 Los Angeles to Sacramento was all four-lane, much of it being full freeway. By 1968, US 99 was decommissioned with the completion of I-5 in Washington and California, but the highway's phasing out actually began July 1, 1964, thanks to the passage of Collier Senate Bill ...