The Automobile Club of Southern California's map of Los Angeles and the San Gabriel Mountains. From 1915.
| Map of Los Angeles and the San Gabriel Mountains | |
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| Date: | 1915 |
| Author: | Automobile Club of Southern California |
| Dwnld: | Full Size (10.5mb) |
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This map isn't part of any series, but we have other Southern California maps that you might want to check out.
Southern California has a very special relationship with the automobile. It will come as no surprise to Angelenos that the commissioners of this map – their own Automobile Club of Southern California – was among the first of its kind in the nation – founded back in 1900, when the automobile was still in a relative state of infancy.
The Automobile Club had as its platform the improvement of roads, standardization of traffic laws, and a general promotion of automobile accessibility. They were also instrumental in securing the construction of the Castaic-Tejon Route through the San Gabriel Mountains [gmap], which can just barely be seen on this image in the upper-left quarter, above the cities of Saugus and Newhall.
This is amazing! Does anyone know if there’s a way to print it out? I’d love to hang it on my wall.
Lankersheim, Tropico, Clifton, Clearwater – how many of these no longer exist?
It’s just a map and yet I’ve spent 20 minutes looking at it.
This is a feeling I’ve gotten to know pretty well.
What’s up with that lake in Gardena/Compton?
What ever happened to Clearwater?
And look at all those fields!
It’s what Paramount used to be called I think.
Clearwater became Paramount.