Dude, who even knows.
Photo reblogged from Kontextmaschine with 836 notes
Recreation and camping areas in California. Ford treasury of station wagon living. 1957-58.
It’s really weird how this map shows US 91 just sort of ending in the desert, when wikipedia documents that it went all the way down to Long Beach. This just came to my attention because as this map is constructed, there was no direct federal route between LA and Vegas, which is again like really weird
There was a big renumbering of highway routes in California in 1964 to deal with the way that a history of road construction by multiple authorities left absurd disjunctions and redundancies between named, numbered, and natural through-routes.
oh another thing that’s worth pointing out. all those red-triangle campgrounds along the coast? the coast in that area is like a tiny sliver between the ocean and the mountains, those were areas that were owned by early land barons who raised food there when California was undeveloped and the imperial trade outpost of San Francisco had to be fed by coastal shipping or the Sacramento Delta
later on when they developed inland transportation the barons ended up giving those lands (now useless, because they’ve got terrible overland access) to the state as part of a deal to blow off a ga-huge tax bill
when I rode Blue Bitch up the PCH you’d see these campgrounds and recreation areas clustered in packs around old watering holes in areas that seemed mostly based on the tourist traffic up the coast
maintained at the request, I assume, of the lobby for people who actually live like those car ads
Source: archive.org
Photo reblogged from tumblr, when the walls fell with 836 notes
Recreation and camping areas in California. Ford treasury of station wagon living. 1957-58.
It’s really weird how this map shows US 91 just sort of ending in the desert, when wikipedia documents that it went all the way down to Long Beach. This just came to my attention because as this map is constructed, there was no direct federal route between LA and Vegas, which is again like really weird
There was a big renumbering of highway routes in California in 1964 to deal with the way that a history of road construction by multiple authorities left absurd disjunctions and redundancies between named, numbered, and natural through-routes.
Source: archive.org