San Diego County Highway to the Stars

[Subdeacon Joe]

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ws-E7tm7vUw?start=785&end=994&fbclid=IwAR006Ssnoayh2tci65imVHi7C7VJEnAlA8qoHCjCo9OTYNGiALkwZymXt8U

 

 

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/communities/north-county/sd-no-highway-stars-20171120-story.html?fbclid=IwAR24_NjIQQtjnW2RMM-LlKBJlaFGaza_ujrmZfegFUQ68LDZOht8JWUQLU4

 

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It was a cold and rainy day in November 1947 when San Diego County residents gathered to watch a 40-ton tractor trailer crawling through the streets hauling a 200-inch telescope mirror to a new observatory atop Palomar Mountain. The observatory, where stargazing would begin about 15 months later in 1949, would house the biggest and strongest telescope in the world, a distinction that would remain true for nearly a half-century.

The mirror was transported from Pasadena, to Oceanside, through Escondido, and then through Valley Center on what was then known as Rincon Road on its way to the mountain. It was a journey to remember and “Highway to the Stars” traffic signs were erected by the county along Rincon Road in the late 1940s to commemorate the event.

For the next dozen years or so, merchants along the road used the poetic name as their official street address and the name appeared widely on street maps and in advertisements. Rincon Road is now known as Valley Center Road. But as time passed, the signs were lost to road-widening projects and souvenir-hunting thieves. In 2018, the signs returned.

Read the full story at the San Diego Union Tribune: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/.../sd-no-highway... or watch Ken Kramer’s wonderful segment on the Highway to the Stars in the video below

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ws-E7tm7vUw?start=785&end=994

 

[J-BAR #18287]

I have visited the Palomar Observatory.  Stunning machine!