Ridge Route: The Road That United California.

Torrance, California:: Self Published, 2003.. Revised Edition, 3rd Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: pictorial boards; the spine is slightly slanted, otherwise a Very Good book.. 8vo (9.25 inches tall) . Index. Description: This copy is Signed by the author with a personalized note. Many historic photo illustrations. The publisher's blurb reads: ''Join me as we step back in time and tour California's Scenic Ridge Route. When it opened in 1915 it was hailed as the 'Magnum Opus' of mountain highway engineering. By-passed by the Ridge alternate in 1933, it was left to the elements and all but forgotten. We will visit sites like Sandberg's famous Summit Hotel where you would have seen Cadillacs, Packards and Studebakers during the road's heyday. The sign out front read 'Truck Drivers and Dogs Not Allowed'. The Ridge Road House, the National Forest Inn and Kelly's Half Way House are but a few of the other sites. Don't take your ye off the road, motorists faced 697 curves when navigating the famous mountain highway. Visit the location where 'Queen Nell' had her hack and review how her sister chased General Petroleum's pipeline crew from her property wit a shotgun when they trampled her vineyards. Read about the 1922 blizzard that stranded scores of motorists in freezing weather. All of this in addition to early history on north-south routes and now Los Angeles had to entice the Butterfield Stage and later the Southern Pacific Railroad. While the book focuses on the 1915 Scenic Ridge Route, it also addresses the 1933 Ridge Alternate (Highway 99) and the current I-05 Ridge Route highway.''