Interstate Highway Types and the History of California's Interstates

Interstates Turn 50: Additional Historic Photos

Note: The “Interstates Turn 50” series of pages were originally published on the Caltrans website in 2006. They disappeared from the site in June 2019. Knowing that of the goals of this site is to preserve information about the state highway system, and that includes information that was once on the Caltrans website but later disappeared, a friend from Caltrans requested that I explore saving these pages. Luckily, the pages in this series were preserved in the Internet Wayback Machine, and Caltrans has not asked the Internet Archive to take them down. This is because Caltrans is good about giving permission to use photos for nonprofit use. The images here used to be right there on Caltrans' publicly accessible site, and are posted elsewhere around on hobbyist sites. Still, if you wish to use an image, please formally request the image from Caltrans, and indicate you saw it…on the Internet Wayback Machine. 

Construction, I-880 (Eastshore Freeway), Market to Tenth St. in Oakland, 5/23/55

Nimitz Freeway (I-880), 1/2/59

Location of O.H. & proposed freeway, I-880, East Oakland, 1943

US 99 between Shasta and Weed, Construction and Realignment, June 1949

Oregon line into Josephine County, circa 1950s

Completed Highway Section, Station 10+00, Imp-8m 1926

4th lane through Grapevine, Lebec to Bakersfield, 10/16/41

East LA Interchange, Bridge for S.M. Freeway, 2/29/1960

East LA Interchange, 6/17/1965

Stockton Channel, 5/10/1971

East LA Interchange, 6/17/1965

Ventura, LA Traffic between S.M. and Ventura, Route 1

East LA Interchange, bridges for S.M. Freeway, E. LAS Int., 2/29/1960

Greenbrae Intersection Project from CH&PW (May-June, 1948)

Excavating for entrance to underpass at Fourth Street, US 40, Sacramento

Paving I-710, 1952

Construction of I-710, 8/18/1955

Alameda I-580/I-238, 9/5/1956 Aerial Photos of Castro Valley

The Stack, 10/3/1952

I-580, Alameda County, 7/12/1927 pavement, between Livermore and Dublin

Toll Road Inyo County

San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge Construction

Laying Floor on Bridge Construction

Southbound LRN 31 (US 91) in 1932

Ridge Route

Freeway Construction in Los Angeles, 4-Level, 1949

Grapevine, 1947

Car on dirt road, 1926

Interstates Turn 50: Innovations Return to Interstate Highway Types

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