Supervisors Back Bike Route to Santa Monica

Posted on August 22, 2009 by lmharnisch
Aug. 22, 1899, Cycleway

Aug. 22, 1899: The Los Angeles County Supervisors endorse a cycleway on Washington Street from the city limits to Santa Monica, starting with a two-mile segment separated from the road by stakes or posts … and John O'Brien steals 35 pounds of tea to get money for whiskey.

An ad for Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound says: "The advent of womanhood is fraught with dangers which even careful mothers too often neglect."
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