For landspeed behind a vehicle with a aerodynamic box built on the back..I saw it done in the late 70’s behind a 55 Chevrolet at Bonneville. In the late 90’s or in the early 20’s it was done behind the Vesco 444 Streamliner east of San Diego on a state highway.
Hello, When my wife lived in Buena Park, near Knott’s Berry Farm, they liked going to the beach. The closest beach was at the end of Highway 39 or Beach Boulevard from far inland to Huntington Beach. It was a straight shot drive from inland to the ocean. So, that was the route they took and so did everyone else. Trying to find another straight route to the beach was one large street eastward. Brookhurst Avenue was another straight road directly to the beach at Huntington Beach, only farther south on the shoreline. So, one crowded day on highway 39 made them take a left turn and end up on Brookhurst Ave, now heading south to the ocean. This area of Orange County was orange groves back in the early days and now long gone. So, those huge open spaces during the beginning of Disneyland development also drew plenty of home building companies starting those multitude of “Tract Homes.” Those tract homes started in the bare acreage and spread like wildfire blasting their way to the beach communities. The open space was tremendous. Jnaki Back then , our dad knew of some old friends that were farmers who owned plenty of acreage for their vegetable crops. Once the rush to buy land for the unmatched mass of tract homes came into play, their land became a gold mine. Some sold off to become millionaires in the 50s and early 60s. I remember in the area of the long avenue of Brookhurst, there was a goldfish farm that we visited often. Not only did we get free goldfish for our home aquarium, but it was a blast to walk out on narrow trails between the vast ponds of larger gold fish and the valued “Koi fish.” Now, talk about large gold fish. Those Koi would not fit in anyone’s yard. But, that farm became a money maker until the land was more valuable to homes and businesses along the highway. Our cousin’s dad bought several Koi for his homemade pond in his house near us in the Westside of Long Beach. So, from those early days of driving on Highway 39 to the beach, to driving down Brookhurst was much better until millions of other families discovered the barren highway route to Huntington Beach from the inland communities. From the time my wife and I met each other, the drive to the beach from her house in Buena Park to the beach, was horrendous every time. We went West toward Long Beach to the closest empty highway we knew or freeway and headed to the Belmont Shore area for our quiet beach activities. Huntington Beach has always been crowded from those inland community families and it is more so, today. There is no such thing as a 10 foot radius for quiet viewing from the sand to the ocean… but you will have to experience it to see the situation. YRMV
My family had been in Fullerton since 1893 and my father moved his new wife (my mother) to Riverside in 1975 to escape the urban sprawl of Orange county, he came out here to buy a half acre house and make his "Shangri-La". My father (RIP) used to tell me about shooting a .22 when he was a teenager at Bastanchury lake and he talked about how rural OC was before the 1960s, he would talk about how there was orchards between Fullerton and the Beach and cruising beach boulevard to go surf fishing... It's so crazy as to how fast tht area grew up, I have a few slides of the area but nothing to really that show what it used to be like. I always like hearing stories like yours. Southern California has certainly changed since the 1950s, Heck it is changed a lot since I grew up in the 1980s, So much so I think I'm almost ready to move away although I sure will miss the weather and the OC beaches.
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