Max's Roads Older Road Photos

Max Rockatansky · November 27, 2016, 10:57:17 PM

I'll wrap this Overseas Highway saga up with the 7 Mile Bridge...or bridges. The 1912 bridge on the right was replaced by the south bridge in 1982. This is all US 1 from 1938 onward given that FL 4a took a ferry route from Lower Matecumbe Key to No Name Key. Pigeon Key was actually used to house a toll booth for US 1 until the late 1950s if memory serves correct:

A couple others since I don't have ten...

The Acosta Bridge carrying FL 13 over the St Johns River in Jacksonville:

And the Main Street Bridge carrying US 1/US 90:

US 163 in Monument Valley years ago before the current repaving:

The Pat Tillman Bridge around when it first opened up and realigned US 93 off the Hoover Dam:

Not that this is anything too notable now but the Everglades Loop Road could have been part of US 94 instead of the Tamiami Trail that it ultimately ended up on. Al Capone's mansion was in the Monroe County Pinecrest about 15 something miles down this road:

And the Colorado Street Bridge in Pasadena which used to carry US 66:

noelbotevera · November 28, 2016, 12:14:44 AM

Just wondering, do you have photos from the 1980s/90s? Interesting photos, but there could be older.

Max Rockatansky · November 28, 2016, 12:24:53 AM

Quote from: noelbotevera on November 28, 2016, 12:14:44 AM
Just wondering, do you have photos from the 1980s/90s? Interesting photos, but there could be older.

Nothing really quite that far back...at least on digital format. I have a ton of old family albums I haven't scanned yet that had a lot of scenic roads like CA 1 in them, I never have been able to get around to scanning them since I would have to pull everything out of binding. Problem was back then you were limited by what film you had and you didn't know how it was going to turn out until photos were developed. The technology and accessibility to photographing is so far beyond what was available when I was a kid that it's actually kind of amazing to think how far it's really progressed. Nowadays on a subject matter that's worth while I usually take 50-150 photos and don't think anything of it. My Dad and I had a Polaroid by the mid to late 90s but that would have focused mainly racing stuff.

On a side note about the Overseas Highway saga. Most of the background material I found on the topic was from this site:

http://www.keyshistory.org/caseosh.html

I always kind of found it interesting how a road like the Overseas Highway could have so many realignments and previous sections that are almost completely forgotten. That would never ever happen out west with US Routes like 66, 99, and 40. I guess that's just a Florida thing, most people weren't really even into cars let alone something like transportation.

Max Rockatansky · November 30, 2016, 10:48:42 PM

Got a little burnt out on posting photos after a recent local road trip:

https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=19260.msg2189966;topicseen#msg2189966

The thread above contains CA 198 in the Diablo and Galiban Range, Old CA 25 on Lewis Creek Road, G15 in Monterey County, CA 146 West, in addition to a couple more roads....conjecture also about Pinnacles National Park and the CA 146 hypothetical gap closure.

But back to ten for the day.

Main Street, Las Vegas, NV:

US 129 one year on opening biker weekend....no bikers to be had.

Had the entire Dragon to myself and it was a blast:

UT 21 looking west into a sinking fog. It was about 20F above the fog and -5F below it:

I-10 eastbound in Mobile, AL:

Not my best given the glare on the lower windshield but I liked the skyline shot of Atlanta from I-75/I-85:

Max Rockatansky · December 02, 2016, 04:55:50 PM

I'm bored so ten more for today.

AZ 89A looking north into Sedona:

Downtown Los Angeles from I-10:

And from I-110:

Mohave County 10/AKA pre-1953 US 66 on Sitgreaves Pass before it was repaved:

AZ 89 on Yarnell Hill. My understanding was that the higher lane was the original two-lane configuration of US 89...which ought to still go to Wickenburg: