Places - Lost in Time: The Embarcadero Freeway

Hello, and welcome back to Places - Lost in Time, a series that looks back on the tale of places and locations that have existing within living memory or photographic record, but are now lost to the pages of history.

This week, we head to the City by the Bay, the one and only San Francisco, as while the Embarcadero is now revered worldwide for its historic waterfront, including such landmarks as Fisherman's Wharf, the heritage streetcar lines and the iconic Ferry Building, there was once a time when this area was blocked away from the rest of the city by a gigantic, double-deck concrete highway, the Embarcadero Freeway, officially known as Interstate 480, being one of only two partially realised elements of a huge comprehensive scheme to see San Francisco covered in criss-crossing highways, this Freeway, despite becoming an engrained though much hated part of the shoreline, not being able to stand the test of time, with its fate sealed when nature came calling during 1989 through the medium of a 6.9 magnitude earthquake, proving the vulnerability of the 1950s-era lightweight, easily assembled highway networks that formed the backbone of America's urban transport system.

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References:
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