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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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