Los Angeles County Plans Nation’s Finest Highway System

 Jan. 1, 1910, Autoist's Paradise

Jan. 1, 1910: The Autoist’s Paradise.

Jan. 1, 1910, Roads

On Jan. 1, The Times published its annual Midwinter Edition. One of the articles featured plans for an extensive new system of highways that would benefit ranchers shipping goods to market,    motor vehicles and teams of horses hauling freight from the harbor,  and pleasure-seeking motorists. There isn’t a word in the Midwinter Edition about the streetcars or building a better mass-transit system.

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Coming in 1910: The Hall of Records.
 
Jan. 1, 1910, Aviation

Jan. 1, 1910: Charles K. Hamilton makes a spectacular flight of 22 minutes in Kansas City, Mo., reaching a height of 500 feet, said to be the highest flight in America.In France, Morris Farman flies 70 kilometers in an hour, following a road at a height of 180 feet. A new cross-country record.

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