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Identifier: californiahighwa00blow (find matches)
Title: California highways; a descriptive record of road development by the state and by such counties as have paved highways
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Blow, Ben, 1868-
Subjects: Roads
Publisher: San Francisco
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ST *» I ^3 R §^ R ^ °0 R ^ R a £ -R R * R^ ^ R R San Francisco City and County Haight or Fell Street and Lincoln Way to NineteenthAvenue, or a southerly route over Valencia and Missionstreets and Ocean Avenue. Since the construction of theTwin Peaks Drive, however, the distance has been greatlyshortened, the western part of the city brought into closertouch with the business district and made much more ac-cessible therefrom for commercial traffic, while at the sametime a stretch of touring road has been developed thatclimbs up and up to the very top of San Franciscos famousTwin Peaks, winds its way about them in a figure eight, andsupplies a view that sweeps the horizon upon every side. The man in the main responsible for this most spectaculardrive is M. M. OShaughnessy, San Franciscos city engineer,who conceived the project shortly after he was appointed tooffice and was able, with the enthusiastic support of MayorJames Rolph, Jr., and Supervisor Thomas Jennings, at thetime chair

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