Circa 1960 – View looking north over downtown Riverside with Market at Fourteenth at bottom left (pre-removal of connecting curve from northbound Market to Main Street and eastbound Fourteenth) (RXSQ)
Here’s an aerial view from approximately 1960 over downtown Riverside. The view is looking north from Fourteenth Street, with the intersection of Fourteenth and Market/Magnolia at bottom-left.
At top-right is the then relatively new Riverside Freeway (Highway 91), with southbound off-ramp at Seventh Street (now Mission Inn Avenue) and southbound on-ramp at Ninth Street (currently being re-configured to enter the freeway at Tenth Street).
Circa 1910 – Riverside High School bounded by Lemon and Lime streets between Ninth and Tenth streets (RXSQ)
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