Huntington Drive
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| Huntington Drive |
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| West end: | Mission Road in Los Angeles |
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| Major junctions: |
 SR 19 in San Gabriel.svg/24px-I-210_(CA).svg.png){kind=small} I-210 in Monrovia |
| East end: | .svg/24px-I-605_(CA).svg.png){kind=small} I-605 in Duarte |
| Major cities: | Los Angeles South Pasadena San Gabriel Arcadia Monrovia Duarte |
| System: | Streets in Los Angeles |
Huntington Drive is a major east-west street in Southern California, United States. It runs from Mission Road near the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Los Angeles east through the El Sereno section of Los Angeles, South Pasadena, San Marino, Alhambra, San Gabriel, Arcadia, Monrovia, ending in Duarte. It is also known as Historic Route 66 east of its junction with Colorado Place in Arcadia, until its name changes to Foothill Blvd. at the San Gabriel River.
Metro Local 79 serves Huntington Drive until Arcadia. Foothill Transit 187 runs east of Arcadia on Huntington Drive.
[edit] History
In 1901, Henry E. Huntington (nephew and heir to the fortune of Southern Pacific Railroad founder Collis P. Huntington) began the Pacific Electric Railway as a way to develop the lands surrounding Los Angeles. The main trunk line eastwards into the San Gabriel Valley passed to the south of Pasadena (with branch lines peeling off), skirting the line of hills just south of the San Gabriel Mountains. Huntington chose for himself a large tract of land on one of these hills (which on a clear day has a view of the ocean, 22 miles distant). When automobile ownership rose in Southern California, this main line was converted into a wide divided highway, with four tracks running down the median. In 1925, Pacific Electric began converting its train lines into bus routes, cumulating in 1953, when the bulk of its routes were closed.
