Fair Oaks and Colorado in May of 1946
Standing in the middle of Colorado Boulevard, looking west, just east of Fair Oaks on May 12, 1946, L. T. Gotchy catches the Pacific Electric Railway ticket office on the left and the Owl Drug Store on the right. Note the intersection has not changed immensely, and it is still referred to as Route 66. Also note the bus on the left side, stopped just short of the intersection.
Mount Lowe Preservation Society Archives, Jack Whitmeyer Collection
Here’s a contemporary view of the location:
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While Route 66 did originally follow an alignment across the Arroyo and down to Pasadena Avenue (N. Figueroa), it was shifted to Eagle Rock Boulevard for a while which served as Alternate 66 while alterations were being made to the old roadway. Being an open highway, it was not meant to cross the urban areas of either Chicago or Los Angeles, and so it terminated at San Fernando Road. Politics being in play, it was routed along Santa Monica Boulevard giving Los Angeles, Hollywood (east & central), Sherman (Hollywood west), Beverly Hills et al, and the City of Santa Monica full claim to being on the highway that ran from Lake Michigan to the Pacific Ocean (at the pier). [Interesting when you consider that all of this was either city or suburban trolley territories before cars took control.] Once the Route was shifted to the Arroyo Parkway (ex-Broadway) and onto the Arroyo Seco Freeway/Speedway, then it was N. Figueroa that became the Alternate 66, Eagle Rock having long been left out in the cold.