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Automobile Club of Southern California

Author of The Mother Lode

80 Works 227 Members 2 Reviews

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Works by Automobile Club of Southern California

The Mother Lode (1960) 46 copies
Baja California (1979) 40 copies
California Winery Tours (1996) 10 copies
Pacific Coast Highways (1971) 7 copies
Las Vegas and Laughlin (1998) 6 copies
Baja California Norte (1971) 4 copies
California (1994) 3 copies
Guide to Colorado River (1991) 3 copies
Pacific Coast Highways (1971) 2 copies
Pacific Coast Highways (1982) 2 copies
San Diego County (1993) 2 copies
San Diego area (1992) 2 copies
Las Vegas (2002) 1 copy
Catalina 1 copy
[No title] 1 copy
Westways 1 copy
Reno-Sparks [map] (2002) 1 copy
San Luis Obispo County (1994) 1 copy

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A printed and bound book following the format of the personally developed "Trip-Tik" s given to members in the 1960's who asked. Vertical strips of maps showing a primary route and parallel alternates from San Diego to Vancouver. On the left of the map strip is distance, time, points of interest, road conditions, and features of side routes.
 
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Lace-Structures | Aug 5, 2015 |
Paperback, 79 pages. From book: This guidebook focuses on the 267-mile stretch of SR 49 between Mariposa and Sierraville; descriptions of some rewarding side trips are also included. Although Highway 49 extends both north and south of this strip, these areas have little Gold Rush significance. The book traces a tour through the Mother Lode country from south to north, but this does not constitute a recommendation that travelers follow this direction.......California's Mother Lode country encompasses a narrow belt extending nearly 200 miles along the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada and ranging in elevation from about 700 to over 2500 feet. It is a peaceful, bucolic region characterized by small ranches, quiet little towns and grassy hills dotted with oak and pine. Yet in the mid-19th cewntury, this was the focal point of one of the most frenzied migrations in human history--the California Gold Rush.… (more)
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80
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