Carmageddon, before s#!7 got cray cray

Check out some of these awesome curated images from the late 1940’s during the construction of highways in our beloved Angeleno city! 

“In the twenty years between 1950 and 1970, more than 500 miles of freeways were built in L.A., Orange, and Ventura counties. Southern California welcomed them with the pomp and circumstance usually reserved for foreign dignitaries. Movie stars and governors christened the new concrete rivers, and many Southern Californians drove to construction sites to pose in photographs of half-built highways rising from the ground.” (via)