California Before the Freeways A Pictorial History of California's
Highways 1912-1919 A 214 page picture-rich book showing people and
automobiles along highways, byways, and wood plank roads in
California between 1912 -1919. Pictures shows bygone tourist
routes, vistas, antique cars, dirt and desert wood plank roadways,
old cities and towns, and the people instrumental in getting
California's highways built over Hill-and-DALE. The State Highway
Commission, overcoming its great native modesty, called attention
to the fact that it was at present financially embarrassed and that
unless some extraordinary legislation was developed it would be
'tee-totally busted' before funds could be derived from the
proposed bond issue, which, under existing laws, could not be voted
upon before the fall of 1920 at the general election, a lapse of
time which might just as well be a century so far as present
pecuniary needs were concerned. And then arose a Moses with his rod
and smote the rock and funds poured forth. Attorney General Webb
was the man who finally evolved the plan of amending the
constitution of California to provide a further sum of $40,000,000
for State Highway construction by the sale of bonds, the one
election serving the double purpose of amending the constitution of
the state of California and providing $40,000,000 for more roads.
Immediately upon the setting of July 1 as the date for the
election, the California Good Roads Campaign Committee was formed,
with L. A. Nares of Fresno as chairman, the vice-chairmen being
Francis Carr of Redding and Henry W. Keller of Los Angeles, while
joint secretaries were named as follows: D. E. Watkins, manager
California State Automobile Association, San Francisco; John F.
Shea, secretary Northern California Hotel Men's Association; E. W.
Casson, secretary Southern California Hotel Men's Association; and
Standish L. Mitchell, secretary Automobile Club of Southern
California. This book is based on the wonderful and classic
out-of-print book California Highways by Ben Blow 1920.
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