Today we have a 19-page booklet called The Arroyo Seco Parkway: A brief discussion of the proposed Arroyo Seco Parkway and its relation to a Boulevard from the Mountains to the Sea. The Los Angeles Park Commission issued this booklet in February of 1913. Now by “parkway” these writers don’t mean another word for freeway or highway they literally mean a long stretch of land left wild as a park. Their proposed park seems to pretty much fall along the path of the Arroyo and the booklet includes photos of various spots along the way as well as maps. An interesting proposal that seems far different from our current concreted lined arroyo. Check it out.
