NP: 1960's Freeways

[Paul Mackin]

On Wed, 19 Jul 2000 Muchasmasgracias at cs.com wrote:

> 
> Was anybody living in So Cal during the 60s?  Were the freeways such a damn 
> mess then?  I'd love to hear a desciption of how a dude with luddite 
> tendencies would feel living in the southland during that time.
> 

Yes. The Santa Monica was death defying, the Hollywood less so, and the
Pasasdena as curvacious as always. 

The reason the Pasadena is so curved and narrow by the way is that back in
the 30s when it was built there was much more budgetary retriction and
much less right of eminent domain exerted. The builders had to take what
land they could get.

			P.