Posted Mar 30, 2015, 11:41 PM
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Originally Posted by HossC
I've just come across a color video of the Arroyo Seco Parkway taken in 1939. It's a 16mm Kodachrome movie which shows parts of the new road still under construction. I don't think it's been posted before.
Arroyo Seco Parkway: Dawn of the Freeway Age:
Both pictures are from the YouTube video 1939 Arroyo Seco.
The video was uploaded by Caltrans, and they have another video where they match up some of the film with present day footage to celebrate the road's 70th anniversary back in 2010:
Arroyo Seco Parkway Then and Now 2010
I'm guessing that the different colored parts of the road surface were supposed to indicate lanes, although the 1939 drivers don't seem to pay much attention to them. |
Guessing the artist preferred the Arroyo in Autumn or ingested the wrong mushrooms. 
 
  http://www.idaillinois.org/cdm/compo...d/4111/rec/515
Last edited by Tourmaline; Mar 31, 2015 at 12:59 AM.
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