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A map of the Pasadena Freeway

...that Byron N. Scott was a public school teacher in Long Beach, California prior to being elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1934?
...that the passing lanes of the Arroyo Seco Parkway, California's first freeway, were paved in a different color to encourage drivers to stay in their lanes?
...that when San Francisco–based photographer William Rulofson fell to his death, he was heard to have exclaimed, "I am killed"?

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