Pacific Coast Freeway Foiled
In the 1950s, state highway officials proposed a freeway from Long Beach through the Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station, Newport Beach and on south.
The so-called Pacific Coast Freeway would have cut through Corona del Mar and Laguna Beach, whose residents protested the project so vehemently that it was finally taken off state planning maps.
Source: Times reports
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