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We use one all the time. Some are historical. Some are about our most iconic industry.
Photo from LA Daily News Negatives Collection at UCLA Library.
1949. A crowd watches the eclipse of the moon from the balcony of Griffith Observatory, overlooking Los Angeles. When the observatory opened in 1935, the concept of a "public observatory" was a novel concept. Since then, night sky (and daytime skyline) viewing from the observatory has delighted a cumulative 85 million visitors. Today, it has become the most visited public observatory in the world, receiving 1.6 million visitors in a year. More people (8 million) have looked through its 12-inch refractor telescope than through any other telescope on earth. In 2009, Griffith Observatory was named among "Ten Places to See Before You are Ten" at Travel & Leisure Magazine.
Long before Interstate 5 began transporting motorists between Southern California and the Central Valley, there was the "Old Ridge Route." The tortuously twisting, 48-mile route took approximately a day to drive from Castaic to the Grapevine.
