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San Francisco and Vicinity, circa 1919

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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This map shows the San Francisco boulevard system which is constantly being extended,the motor vehicle tax money allotted to San Francisco being employed in this work.
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(2I9) No attempt has been made to show the paved highway systems of adjoining counties, thismap being intended to show the San Francisco boulevard system in detail and to emphasizethe geographical location of the city by the Golden Gate. California Highways funds are made available it is being extended, the highway-being payed with concrete standard pavement as the wall isextended, and within a comparatively short time a modernsmooth roadway with sea-wall protection will reach from thefoot of the sheer rock wall below Sutro Park at the CliffHouse to Sloat Boulevard. At the present time the GreatHighway is surfaced and amply comfortable to drive over.This improvement being merely of a temporary character,and over it on a bright Sunday or holiday a tremendousvolume of automobile traffic flows, supplied by the routesdescribed as well as by the smooth driveways which JohnMcLaren, superintendent of Golden Gate Park, has providedwith the help of Curtis H. Lindley, Herbert Fleishhacker,John

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  • booksubject:Roads
  • bookpublisher:San_Francisco
  • bookcontributor:The_Library_of_Congress
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  • bookleafnumber:386
  • bookcollection:library_of_congress
  • bookcollection:americana
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