![]() ![]() At the ribbon-cutting on September 25, 1958, Hahn boasted that the freeway-now stretching ten miles-was already L.A.’s second-busiest after the Hollywood Freeway. Even the freeway’s old nemesis, Kenneth Hahn, couldn’t resist attending the 124th Street opening. One of the dedications featured a shapely model named Ann Bradford, who wore a sash emblazoned with the words “Miss Freeway Link”-certainly one of the clunkier female honorifics dreamed up by a Chamber of Commerce. Almost all were accompanied by the kind of theatricality that defined the era. Press alerts went out with each new off-ramp as they came online: Olympic. ![]() ![]() Over the next four years, the Harbor Freeway began to coalesce. ![]()
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