And it looks like there’s another shot of the same stacks. So it’s NOT the 101, it’s PCH. Which makes it Highway 1, right? Isn’t Los Alamitos thereish?
Yes I looked at a 1955 map of Seal Beach, where it’s labeled as The Pacific Coast Highway with no number given. But it’s CA-1, not Interstate 1, that’s on the East Coast. The 1 and the 101 do run together in several places, let me go to Wikipedia for some history.
Okay!
Here’s a relevant paragraph after a whole section about building and renaming parts of what’s now CA-1:
"The state Legislature in 1963 tossed out the old conflicting Legislative Route Numbers (1964 renumbering), got rid of some famous old U.S. routes, and renumbered many state highways. It abolished US 101A in Los Angeles, Orange and Ventura counties and renumbered it as SR 1. The Rockport to Leggett connection then became State Route 208.[51] The cover of California Highways magazine for in early 1964 shows state engineers posting the new shield at Point Mugu.[52] The same year, the Legislature by state law named SR 1 “Pacific Coast Highway” in Orange, Los Angeles and Ventura counties, “Cabrillo Highway” from Santa Barbara north to San Francisco, and “Shoreline Highway” from Marin County to its northern terminus. Many cities, however, did not change the name of city streets that are part of SR 1, such as Lincoln and Sepulveda boulevards in Los Angeles, Santa Monica and El Segundo; and Junipero Serra and Park Presidio boulevards in San Francisco. Several other cities and communities like Newport Beach, Laguna Beach and Bodega Bay merely named their respective city streets as “Coast Highway”.
So back in 1953, PCH down in Seal Beach might have been part of old 101-A!
I found this :
SPHERES OF WAR-IN STACKS
PILED up like a show exhibit of gigantic oranges,
hollow iron floats are stacked beside US Highway
101 at Seal Beach, California. In World War II they
were used to suspend anti-submarine nets to protect
US ports. At war’s end the navy hauled them out
of the water, stored them against future contingencies.
Each weighing 680 lb and 5ft in diameter, they stand
in three tidy 45ft mountains, each of 8415 grey floats.
So Seal Beach, assuming this source has it right https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-484219677
The 101 in Seal Beach? It doesn’t lead there (at least today), hmm…
It didn’t look to me like the 101 in SoCal in the first place and I’m old enough to remember it in the 60s. But I don’t know Seal Beach.
Okay now I found this: https://sbfoundersday.wordpress.com/2019/03/07/tdisbh066/
And it looks like there’s another shot of the same stacks. So it’s NOT the 101, it’s PCH. Which makes it Highway 1, right? Isn’t Los Alamitos thereish?
Keep in mind that the photo pre-dates the US interstate system, so there was a lot of highway shuffling in the 60s
Yes I looked at a 1955 map of Seal Beach, where it’s labeled as The Pacific Coast Highway with no number given. But it’s CA-1, not Interstate 1, that’s on the East Coast. The 1 and the 101 do run together in several places, let me go to Wikipedia for some history.
Okay! Here’s a relevant paragraph after a whole section about building and renaming parts of what’s now CA-1:
"The state Legislature in 1963 tossed out the old conflicting Legislative Route Numbers (1964 renumbering), got rid of some famous old U.S. routes, and renumbered many state highways. It abolished US 101A in Los Angeles, Orange and Ventura counties and renumbered it as SR 1. The Rockport to Leggett connection then became State Route 208.[51] The cover of California Highways magazine for in early 1964 shows state engineers posting the new shield at Point Mugu.[52] The same year, the Legislature by state law named SR 1 “Pacific Coast Highway” in Orange, Los Angeles and Ventura counties, “Cabrillo Highway” from Santa Barbara north to San Francisco, and “Shoreline Highway” from Marin County to its northern terminus. Many cities, however, did not change the name of city streets that are part of SR 1, such as Lincoln and Sepulveda boulevards in Los Angeles, Santa Monica and El Segundo; and Junipero Serra and Park Presidio boulevards in San Francisco. Several other cities and communities like Newport Beach, Laguna Beach and Bodega Bay merely named their respective city streets as “Coast Highway”.
So back in 1953, PCH down in Seal Beach might have been part of old 101-A!
Nice sleuthing.