1960-1970 Gebhard and Winter 1977

David Gebhard and Robert Winter A Guide to Architecture in Los Angeles & Southern California, Peregrine Smith: Santa Barbara, 1977, 728 pp, 1977, 1970s, 1966, 1961,

     ". . . By the seventies when the building tapered off due to the economy and a growing skepticism, almost everyone in Los Angeles was less than four miles from a freeway, the goal of the transportation experts." p. 27

     "Santa Monica Freeway 1961-1966" p. 30

     "37. Santa Monica Fwy. 1961-66; Lammers, Reed & Reece, engineers.

     "It begins with a swoop through a tunnel just before you get to the pier and stretches across the county to West Covina. One of the most spectacular interchanges in the word, best observed from the surface streets, is where it intersects the San Diego Fwy, just outside Santa Monica.

(At some date the name Christopher Coumbus Transcontinental Hwy. was added and it stretched across the country, replacing Rte. 66.)

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