“Where today, Route 66 commemorates a once-important voyaging route rendered obsolete by modern technology, the Pacific Coast Highway, known to locals as the PCH, is a triumph of modern roadwork, built in bits and pieces over decades. Explosives left over from the world wars, prisoners from high-security penitentiary San Quentin and engineers looking for a project during the New Deal all played parts in carving a highway through the previously impregnable California coastline, turning what was once a rugged hiking route into a leisurely drive.”
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