Thursday, May 30, 2013

The Santa Susana Pass Road

Highway 118, looking west likely from the vantage point of stony point in Chatsworth.
While most of Simi has changed dramatically, a leasurly drive over the Santa Susana pass road will give you almost the exact feeling it gave me nearly 50 years ago. Before the freeway was built, this was bumper to bumper every morning and night as we commuted "over the hill". If you watch the opening credits of the classic movie "White Heat" you will see this same shot, but looking east from the pass road towards Chatsworth.