Cloverleaf locales

Usage examples of freeways.

The choppers normally assigned to spotting traffic conditions on the freeways were providing live pictures of Central Los Angeles, with columns of smoke ascending vertically into the air.

He had also avoided freeways where encountering a California Highway Patrol car would have been more likely.

Twenty minutes later she was on the 101 heading south, approaching a maze of intersecting freeways near downtown.

Except for the occasional antique gasoline-powered machines that rolled imperiously along the nearly deserted freeways, the principal method of transportation was the coal-fueled steam-powered bus.

A day later, with all his belongings, few as they were, packed into the shabby suitcase from his closet and a small advance against his salary gone to pay his back rent, he was driven in an inconspicuous brown automobile through the streets and freeways of a Los Angeles grown gray through five years of Depression but almost free of smog as industrial activity and automobile exhausts dwindled toward zero.