I'm in the process of trying to shoot many of the places I remember growning up in the 50's & 60's. Most of the places have been torn down, but there is one location I'd like to find, but since I was quite little I have no idea where it is or if it is still accessible. Maybe someone here knows.
The old Ridge Route between Bakersfield and L.A. wound through the Tehachipis. It was a very dangerous highway replaced with the current I-5. We made many one day trips over the road to visit my Dad's sister in L.A. back in the 50's and on one particualrly nasty stretch late one night I remember waking up (I'd get car sick so I usually took a nap) and seeing in the headlights of my Dad's '54 Olds a large white cross on the side of the road, and the numbers of all the traffic deaths that occurred on the 'ridge encircled by a black wreath (on another trip a privately owned P-51 Mustang thundered below the highway, hugging the terrain at the botton of the draw. I later learned that the surplus Mustang belonged to a lawyer who must have been a darned fine pilot!)
My question is----are any stretches of the old Ridge Route still open and does that cross still scare the wits out of people driving past in the night? If so I'd like to take a picture of it.
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