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Updates to My
Highway Pages
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For ease of reference and to avoid placing those "New!!" tags,
(which I would inevitably forget to remove) I'm going to document new additions to my
pages here. Currently, I anticipate adding to or modifying something on my pages every day
or two.
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Historic
California US Highways
Created: Circa March, 1996.
Updates:
- September 17: At long last started adding
more. Look out for the Route 66 Colorado
River and Needles page. Yes, I know I said I wouldn't cover Route 66 in too much
detail, but I do want to get areas of interest that I haven't seen covered on other sites.
- July 19: The US 101 photo album for South Orange County is now officially up. It will
replicate and partially replace my existing US 101
Photo Gallery (South). This is to break down each page into a more manageable
size. I'm also cleaning up various broken hyperlinks.
- July 13: Added photos and text to the I-5/US 101 San Clemente Photo Gallery;
cleaned up pictures on the US 91 / US 395 Cajon Pass
Photo Album.
- July 8: Revamped the US 91/SR-18 Santa Ana Canyon Photo Album and added more
photographs.
- July 6: Added photographs of old
alignments of US 101 in the Conejo Valley Photo
Album.
- June 21: Adding historical pictures to the
US 99 Ridge Route and Grapevine Photo Galleries.
- June 5: Found an authentic looking highway
sign font. Changed font for front page and miscellaneous other logos.
- April 6: Continued adding maps to the
pages mentioned for April 4.
- April 4: Added maps to the US 99 tours for
the Ridge Route Guide and the Grapevine (Tejon Summit) Side Trip. Also added
north symbols for the maps.
- April 2: I'm continuing to add maps to my
tours - look for new ones on my US 99 Coachella
Valley side trip. I've also done more work on getting all of my highways pages in sync
- mostly glitter work, but necessary to give the site a consistent look and feel.
- March 26: I've added pilot maps to my tour
guides to help identify the locations of old highways. So far I've added them to the US 80, Laguna Mtns. West and US 99, Inland Empire side trips.
- March 21: Revised US 80 and US 99 Guides.
I'm almost done with splitting the guides into more manageable sizes (each former page is
now 4 -5 pages.) This means more pages to navigate, but I'm making them easy to use as I'm
including drop down menus on the left side (see previous update.) Have a look at the
beginning pages for the US 80 and US 99 guides. Side note: I finally got FrontPage
98 to work through my Proxy Server and should have more frequent updates. &#@%
Microsoft!!
- March 9: At long last I've made more
revisions! I'm working on getting my current material, especially the travelogues into a
consistent format. Have a look at my Finding US 80
page for the drop-down Java menus which offer easy access to my US 80 travelogues. Note
that I've split them up; I'm also working on getting some new photos, so please bear with
me.
- February 16: Further modified the main page, adding a contemporary photograph to
complement the existing photo. Also started work on cleaning up and completing the History Page - fixed the link to my US 51 graphic.
- February 14: Changed a lot of the text on
the main page. This site was also recently granted
the Alsirat Web Book Award.
- February 13: Believe it or not, there is
finally an introductory page for US 50! Yes, it
needs some work, but it's there.
- February 2: Finally got around to updating
the picture on the US 97 page. It's not really the
best, but it is authentic and I was there. Next time I go up, I'll get a better one.
- February 1: Added a bunch of stuff. For US
99 - split the travelogue for the Tehachapis Mountains into two sections, The Ridge Route and Grapevine;
added a photo album pages for US 99/60/70 covering Indio
to San Bernardino and San Bernardino to Los
Angeles. Also added a new page
for the I-5/US 101 freeway in San Clemente.
- January 26: Added photographs showing the
1955 widening of US 91 and 395 over Cajon Summit in the US 395 Inland Empire and Cajon Pass page.
- January 24: New US 99 photo album for San Bernardino to Los Angeles and Indio to San Bernardino.
- January 21: Added additional "photo
album" pages for US 101 through the Simi Valley.
Updated the "photo album" pages for US 395 in Riverside County and US 99 Santa Clarita to Grapevine page.
- January 18: Finally added content to
my About the US Highways Page. It details
my interest in roads and why I created the page as well as giving the more technical
details of how I authored it. Also added pages for the US 80 "photo album"
covering Mountain Spring and Imperial County.
- January 17: Modified my Finding US 91 page, adding experimental navigation
buttons in the left margin. If they go over well, I'll be adding them to my other pages.
Please contact me if you have any comments. It would
be much appreciated
- January 8: Created new link buttons
for the left hand margins in my page. This should address issues with several fonts not
contrasting well with the margins. It will take a while to update all the pages. Also
refurbished the California Highways in 1928
page.
- January 1, 1998: Updated links to
the reorganized site. Also completed forwarding pages from the CTS site directing readers
to the new domain location.
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Interstate
"Indigestion" 238
Created: July 12, 1997
Updates:
- January 1, 1998: Relocated the I-238 page into its own directory under
"roads." Also added forwarding pages to direct readers to the new location.
- January 3: Added the Interstate shield link "buttons"
to keep it consistent with my other Roads and Highways pages.
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Highway
56
Created: October, 1995
Updates:
- January 3: Added the Interstate
shield link "buttons" to keep it consistent with my other Roads and Highways
pages.
- January 1, 1998: Relocated the SR-56 page into its own directory under
"roads." Also added forwarding pages to direct readers to the new location.
Revamped all the pages and created a firm structure for future additions. Started adding
digital photographs of the western leg of the highway.
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Roads
and Highways Page
Created: October, 1995
Updates:
- January 7: Am in the process of adding my new State
Highways page. This will contain details of selected state routes. So far, Highway 252 in San Diego has been added.
- January 2: Created new navigation buttons which will also appear on the
other highways pages. There are two different sets of buttons: ones designed to look like
guide signs and the others are highway shields with text. These should lend consistency to
my pages.
- January 1, 1998: Placed the "Roads and
Highways" pages in a separate directory under "gbcnet.com." Split the
links page from the introduction. Added new background.
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Last Update: February 16, 1998
If you have any comments, or if you would like to give any additional information
please send mail to me at: casey@gbcnet.com.
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