Going to the Son Highway
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Day 11: October 12, 2024 Going to the Son Highway Comment via blog |
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After a night sleeping where I've slept before, I drove down the road just
a bit to eat breakfast where I've eaten before.
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I have also been here before. It was 2016, about a year after the
restoration was completed but it was on a day when it wasn't officially
open so this was the first I've been inside. Very nice. The plaques
(here and here) may
have been in place in 2016 but I got no photos. The restroom definitely
was not here in 2016. Most Route 66 travelers drive the route from east to
west so by the time they reach here they have seen a lot of roadside
restrooms. Alan, the volunteer on duty today, told me that the restroom
always gets praise as one of the best on the route.
Although the station and the Pikes Peak Ocean to Ocean Highway were born about the same time, early travelers on the highway would not have stopped here. The highway's original western terminus was San Francisco. It moved here in 1924. |
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I grabbed drive-by shots of some landmarks as I continued west. The
Madonna of the Trail belongs to the National Old Trails Road. I may stop
for more pictures when I follow that named auto trail east but I might not
do much better than this one. The Azusa Drive In screen was still standing
but not being used when I first came by here. I considered staying at the
Saga last night but it was nearly full and the weekend rates were
painfully high. The bridge being crossed in the last picture is the 1912
Colorado Street Bridge.
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The PPOO guide does not give details about the highway's terminus in Los
Angeles. It's not unreasonable to think it might have bee the same as the
NOTR but since I'll be driving that road in the near future, I felt no
obligation to go beyond the Los Angeles city limits today. I believe they
are right about here and, with no actual limits sign in sight, have chosen
this flower covered wall to mark the end of my PPOO drive.
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What came next was an all expressway run south to where my son lives near
San Diego. The huge building and series of equally huge Assyrian looking
statues caught my eye but I had no idea what they were when I snapped
these phots. I later learned that the building was originally constructed
in the 1920s as a tire factory and became
Citadel
Outlets in 2003.
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A couple of accidents on I-5 added quite a bit of time to my drive. The
first one created the scene in the first picture which lasted for many
miles. The backup caused by the second accident was much briefer. The
second photo, taken after both accidents were behind me, shows a more
typical I-5 view in which those cars are happily moving at 65 MPH and up.
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I've always suspected that my son, Fletcher, moved here because of the
name of the parkway at his exit but he denies it.
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