Author: California State Automobile Association
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Category : Concrete roads
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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Author: Ben Blow
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 556

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Provides a wealth of information on early roads in California, illustrated throughout with contemporary photographs and numerous maps. Covers everything: The Bureau of Highways, the California Highway Commission, type of roads and construction, convict labor, maintenance, tree planting, camp sites, State highway routes, campaigning for good roads, etc. Specific specialized sections cover the elimination of the Bell Springs Grade; building the state highway up the Sacramento River Canyon; the Sacramento-Yolo Causeway; the Boulevard around San Francisco and San Pablo Bays; the San Juan Mountain and Zaca Canyon controversies; the Tejon-Castaic Ridge Route and the Colorado Desert, etc. --from dealer description.

Author: California. Highway Advisory Committee
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Category : Highway planning
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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Author: United States. Bureau of Public Roads
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Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 174

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Author: California. Division of Highways
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Category : Highway planning
Languages : en
Pages : 178

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Author: California State Automobile Association
Publisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781357118426
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author: California State Automobile Association
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780265164785
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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Excerpt from The State Highways of California: An Engineering Study Conducted Jointly by the California State Automobile Association and the Automobile Club of Southern California, July, 1920-January, 1921 The high maintenance charges and reconstruction costs which 4-inch and 55-inch pave ments have required during the past seven years, particularly where the sub-soil is clay or adobe, lead to the inevitable conclusion that it is more economical to build thicker and more substantial pavements. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Category : Motor fuels
Languages : en
Pages : 622

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Author: California. Highway Commission
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Category : Highway planning
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Author: Kenneth E. Bingham
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781484083758
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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California Before the Freeways A Pictorial History of California's Highways 1912-1919 A 214 page picture-rich book showing people and automobiles along highways, byways, and wood plank roads in California between 1912 -1919. Pictures shows bygone tourist routes, vistas, antique cars, dirt and desert wood plank roadways, old cities and towns, and the people instrumental in getting California's highways built over "Hill-and-DALE." "The State Highway Commission, overcoming its great native modesty, called attention to the fact that it was at present financially embarrassed and that unless some extraordinary legislation was developed it would be 'tee-totally busted' before funds could be derived from the proposed bond issue, which, under existing laws, could not be voted upon before the fall of 1920 at the general election, a lapse of time which might just as well be a century so far as present pecuniary needs were concerned. And then arose a Moses with his rod and smote the rock and funds poured forth. Attorney General Webb was the man who finally evolved the plan of amending the constitution of California to provide a further sum of $40,000,000 for State Highway construction by the sale of bonds, the one election serving the double purpose of amending the constitution of the state of California and providing $40,000,000 for more roads. Immediately upon the setting of July 1 as the date for the election, the California Good Roads Campaign Committee was formed, with L. A. Nares of Fresno as chairman, the vice-chairmen being Francis Carr of Redding and Henry W. Keller of Los Angeles, while joint secretaries were named as follows: D. E. Watkins, manager California State Automobile Association, San Francisco; John F. Shea, secretary Northern California Hotel Men's Association; E. W. Casson, secretary Southern California Hotel Men's Association; and Standish L. Mitchell, secretary Automobile Club of Southern California. This book is based on the wonderful and classic out-of-print book "California Highways" by Ben Blow 1920.