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Partial skeletons and skulls of camels, horses and rodents will next be cataloged by the San Diego National History Museum.

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50 years ago, the Seattle Freeway Revolt kept the Central District from being ripped apart

Priscilla Arsove remembers sitting in her family’s living room as her father called hundreds of volunteers and city officials throughout the evening on their house’s single landline telephone to st…

On Sunday September 23, a 50th anniversary celebration of their work will be held at the Central Area Senior Center.

Maynard Arsove was pushed to action by the construction of I-5 which effectively separated Capitol Hill and First Hill from downtown.

The “Freeway Revolt” began in 1960 when voters approved the Bay Freeway, which was set to be a link between I-5 and Seattle Center, and bonds to fund the R.H. Thomson Expressway, a 15-mile roadway that would have stretched from Duwamish to Bothell, thus setting in motion the creation of a transportation system that would have a greater freeway density than Los Angeles.

The R.H. Thomson Expressway would have destroyed up to 3,000 homes and displaced as many as 8,000 people. The Bay Freeway would have walled off South Lake Union from the rest of the city. These possibilities fostered a public outcry that resulted in a public outcry from affected residents which saw the citizens suing the city two years later. Widely-attended public hearings on the future of transportation in Seattle ensued before Citizens Against the RH Thomson (CARHT) and Citizens Against Freeways(CAF) formed in 1968.

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Building freeway through Walker Canyon was a challenge

A "strange, harsh, remote region where mountain and desert come together in a kind of mortal combat." #tbt #sandiego #california #highways

One of the most beautiful spots on Interstate 8 in San Diego County the trip through Walker Canyon, just northwest of Jacumba in the southwest corner of San Diego County.

One of the builders described it as “isolated from the rest of the world,” wrote Earl Rodgers.

“We’re building a freeway down Walker Canyon now. It’s a strange, harsh, remote region where mountain and desert come together in a…

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Looking easterly along Hollywood Freeway, taken from above Melrose Avenue, 1951 by Metro Library and Archive Via Flickr: The split between roadways was to accommodate future connections with the proposed Santa Monica Freeway. That freeway was proposed to run along the Santa Monica Boulevard Corridor, but was never constructed. It should not be confused with the current Santa Monica Freeway (originally named "Olympic Freeway") Harvested from the January-February, 1952 issue of California Highways and Public Works: libraryarchives.metro.net/DPGTL/Californiahighways/chpw_1...

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Hollywood Freeway construction through Los Angeles Civic Center looking west, 1951 by Metro Library and Archive Via Flickr: Freeway construction bisecting Civic Center complex. Los Angeles City Hall is at far left. Freeway runs southeast at bottom through the subsurface "Downtown Slot," preserving existing overhead roadways. Harvested from the January-February, 1952 issue of California Highways and Public Works: libraryarchives.metro.net/DPGTL/Californiahighways/chpw_1...

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Precast, prestressed, 80-foot girders in place on an approach to a new bridge. California highways and public works. Mar-Apr 1958.

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A 3700 pound weight knocks down a building in Los Angeles to make way for a new freeway. California highways and public works. Mar-Apr 1958.

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Freeway construction in the desert. California highways and public works. Sept.-Oct. 1958.