🛣 Headlines About California Highways – January 2023

[cahwyguy]

The beginning of the month means that it is headline time again, As I'm taking a quick break between tasks, this will be quick: Here are your January headlines. Lots of interesting stuff in here worth discussing, so "ready, set, discuss".

Link to the headline post: https://cahighways.org/wordpress/?p=16680

[Max Rockatansky]

Apparently Pea Soup Anderson's in Santa Nella off CA 33 and I-5 will remain in business.

The detour on CA 41 south of Lemoore is weird.  Essentially it posted as CA 198 all the way west to I-5.  Using Avenal Cutoff Road and CA 269 might cost only five minutes over the normal alignment of CA 41.  Laurel Avenue and 22nd Avenue is also an alternative for non-freight traffic.

[pderocco]

So CSUN has a zillion maps. Bully for them. These days, I'm not that impressed by collections of paper artifacts unless there's a program to scan them all and put them online for the public. Isn't anyone else doing that on a large scale besides David Rumsey? It doesn't look like CSUN is. (Oh, they do have a scanner that students can use.)

[cahwyguy]

So CSUN has a zillion maps. Bully for them. These days, I'm not that impressed by collections of paper artifacts unless there's a program to scan them all and put them online for the public. Isn't anyone else doing that on a large scale besides David Rumsey? It doesn't look like CSUN is. (Oh, they do have a scanner that students can use.)

Actually, if you look at my maps top level page, https://www.cahighways.org/maps.html , there are quite a few online map collections, including Stanford and USC.

[Max Rockatansky]

Archive.org has the full run of 1912-1916 California Highway Bulletins and 1924-1967 California Highways & Public Works. 

[kurumi]

From Dan's links: the San Jose Public Library has some neat Caltrans right-of-way photos from the 1960s. Here's CA 82 (El Camino Real) in Santa Clara, with a new ROW line and a classic McDonald's building: https://digitalcollections.sjlibrary.org/digital/collection/sjpl_caltra/id/205/rec/166

[cahwyguy]

Archive.org has the full run of 1912-1916 California Highway Bulletins and 1924-1967 California Highways & Public Works. 

LA Metro has a full set as well at https://libraryarchives.metro.net/DPGTL/Californiahighways/ , and the Caltrans Transportation Library at https://cdm16436.contentdm.oclc.org/ has an even larger collection, including the post-CHPW "GOing Places"'

[Max Rockatansky]

Archive.org has the full run of 1912-1916 California Highway Bulletins and 1924-1967 California Highways & Public Works. 

LA Metro has a full set as well at https://libraryarchives.metro.net/DPGTL/Californiahighways/ , and the Caltrans Transportation Library at https://cdm16436.contentdm.oclc.org/ has an even larger collection, including the post-CHPW "GOing Places"'

That last item caught my attention.  I've been looking for Going Places for awhile since Sparker mentioned it a couple years ago.

[Plutonic Panda]

I had no idea the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu was called the Roosevelt Highway at one time.

[cahwyguy]

I had no idea the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu was called the Roosevelt Highway at one time.

And that, my friends, is why folks need to listen to Tom and I's podcast (Tom and Mine? Our?) https://caroutebyroute.org/ or https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caroutebyroute :-)

[Max Rockatansky]

Heh the Roosevelt Highway, PCH, Cabrillo Highway and Shoreline Highway naming conventions might end up on another road oriented podcast soon.