{"id":1407,"date":"2006-06-03T13:54:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-03T20:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=1407"},"modified":"2006-06-03T13:54:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-03T20:54:00","slug":"a-find-at-an-estate-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=1407","title":{"rendered":"A Find at an Estate Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, I went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.estatesalesla.com\/calendar.html\" target=\"_blank\">an estate sale<\/a>. I found nothing of interest for my wife, but something of great interest to me. As we were leaving, I noticed this forlorn map book sticking out of a box, next to a full box of 8-track tapes and an old Zenith Betamax player. I picked up the map. It was a Thomas Brothers Map of Los Angeles, from sometime between 1952 and 1955.  It shows no interstate routes, and the pre-1964 route numbers. It still shows Pacific Electric routes and shops.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some neat things from it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The area where I currently live hadn&#8217;t been subdivided yet. Balboa Bl ended below Knollwood, and is shown as &#8220;unimproved&#8221; after that. Rinaldi only went as far W as Zelzah, and Tampa and Wilbur ended at Devonshire. <a href=\"http:\/\/ixixlix.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">ixixlix<\/a>&#8216;s street was there. The only thing that went N of Devonshire was Limekiln Cyn Road.\n<li>It does show some freeways: the Foothill between Hampton Rd and Montana St, Colorado, Hollywood (which ends at Vineland), Pasadena, and Santa Ana. A little bit of the Long Beach and San Diego (from Bellagio to Santa Monica).\n<li>It shows the Grand Central Airport. It shows the main terminals at Los Angeles International being E of Sepulveda, at the junction of Airport and Century. That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s called Airport: it was the main road in.\n<li>Marina Del Rey does not exist.\n<li>Reseda Blvd ends in the Valley at Tarzana Drive, and is dirt road from there to Mulholland. <i>It then starts up at Mulholland again<\/i>, and continues into the Palisades to end at Sunset Blvd. Yes, there was a intersection of Reseda and Sunset! This road does not appear to exist on current maps.\n<li>Kanan Dume does not exist.\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s just a start. I think I&#8217;m going to have fun with this!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, I went to an estate sale. I found nothing of interest for my wife, but something of great interest to me. As we were leaving, I noticed this forlorn map book sticking out of a box, next to a full box of 8-track tapes and an old Zenith Betamax player. I picked up <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=1407\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roadgeeking","category-lj-xfer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}