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El Camino Real & The Route Of The Daylight by Tom Zimmerman with R Titus w/DJ
El Camino Real & The Route Of The Daylight by Tom Zimmerman with Roger L. Titus
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
208 pages
Copyright 2013
Contents
9Foreword
iiAcknowledgments
13Introduction
19Post Cards Say it Better
21Producer of the Finest Post Cards
25 One El Camino Real- Ladder of the Missions
51Two Highway 101- In the Beginning
85Three The Route of the Daylight
113Four Three Towns-Bradley, San Miguel, and Buellton
125Five Two Towns - San Jose and San Luis Obispo
143 One town- Santa Barbara
153Seven Green Gold - A Bountiful Land
169 Eight Black Gold- Derricks & Rockers
177 Nine The Route of the Military
187 Ten A Place to Stop- Along The Way
01Epilogue
204Bibliography
205Index
208Illustration Credits
It started out as an ill-defined path connecting the missions, presidios, and pueblos of the Alta California section of the vast Spanish empire in the Americas. The padres, administrators, soldiers, ranchers, and workers that serviced the territory between San Diego and San Francisco called it El Camino Real - The King's Highway. By the early twentieth century the proliferation of automobiles demanded better roads. State Legislative Route 2, generally called the Coast Route, followed the old El Camino Real. When the federal government developed the United States Highway system in the mid-192os, US Highway ioi became the latest version of the Coast Route.
The railroads were equally active in coastal California. The first efforts branched out locally from San Francisco and Los Angeles. Gradually, the Southern Pacific pushed its line north and south. Major obstacles at Rincon Point and the area of the Cuesta Grade had to be overcome. It was a grueling, expensive process that took thirty-six years to complete. But the result was worth it. The nomies of the scores of small towns along the route were vastly improved. Then in 1937 the streamlined Coast Daylight passenger service, known as "the most beautiful train in the world;' connected the cities and towns along El Camino Real between Los Angeles and San Francisco.
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