Home Movies: "California and East Travels" (1955)
1955 · Ephemeral film · 11 min
Synopsis
Summary: family western train trip. Tarmac at an airport, looks like San Francisco airport. Passengers in travel clothes and carrying luggage deplane out the rear of a jet. Jet labeled Pacific Air Lines. Propeller jet. Waterfall view. Two men in front of two cars, pan to long view of 200 foot high waterfall. View of a lodge with full parking lot, with waterfalls above. On stone path in park, woman in skirt and scarf holds a 35mm camera up to her eye and appropaches the camera. Pacific coast highway view. Pan of verdant cliffs and sun-lit sea. Three middle-aged women in skirts and sweaters stand on agravel road. They walk around taking pictures. One of them crouches and takes a picture of something on the ground.
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- 11 minutes
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- Prelinger Archives
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★★★★★ · The then new I-80 & OLD U.S.40 · tribtower · 2013-06-14
Signs reading Truckee & Quincy are on then new I-80 in the California Sierra-Nevada. The vehicles in this film range-from a 56'Ford Fairlane to a 61'TBird Landau parked next to 60' Chevy sedan so looks like this was shot in the early 60's. I-80 replaced the old U.S. 40 which was a two-lane road with an occasional passing lane- that is a center lane that permitted passing slow moving vehicles for few hundred feet! I-80 was built over the Sierra to permit the crowds easy access to the 1960 Winter Olympic Games in Squaw Valley. The construction from Sacramento to Truckee took about 2years of…