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WESTWAYS Features Automobile Club's Centennial

1 November 2000

WESTWAYS Features Automobile Club's Centennial; Magazine Looks Back at 100 Years of Service to Southern California

    LOS ANGELES--Nov. 1, 2000--WESTWAYS magazine's November/December issue features the Automobile Club of Southern California's multi-faceted celebration of 100 years of service to Southern California motorists and discusses the state's transportation future.
    The issue analyzes California transportation funding and offers the Auto Club's perspectives. Auto Club Public Policy and Programs Manager Dan Beal and UC Berkeley's Institute of Transportation Studies Director Martin Wachs wrote the feature story that focuses on Southern California's anticipated population, traffic congestion and unmet transportation needs.
    Also mentioned in this issue is the Auto Club's Dec. 14 transportation symposium, "Activism and Mobility in the Global City," co-sponsored with the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
    Part of the centennial celebration, the daylong event will bring together scholars from various disciplines and people who've participated in major transportation events in Los Angeles for the past 30 years.
    Centennial coverage includes a six-page spread of photographs from Auto Club photographers. The photographic "album" was compiled from the Auto Club's Corporate Archives, which contains 25,000 historic photographs. Landmarks in Auto Club history are also included.
    In addition, this issue highlights the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's "Made in California," exhibit, which contains three original WESTWAYS cover art paintings, including Maynard Dixon's "Airplane."
    The WESTWAYS Centennial section highlights the artists and the artworks that make up the Auto Club's painting collection, which served as original WESTWAYS covers. Author and former Los Angeles County Museum of Art curator Nancy Moure discusses what may be the largest body of illustrations by California and Los Angeles artists for its time period.
    Continuing its centennial coverage, WESTWAYS features "drive-through" architecture of service stations. Many old canopy-and-box service stations still stand throughout Southern California as testament to the first "drive-through" businesses.
    It's important to be alert while you're traveling. Seasoned WESTWAYS travel columnists Elizabeth Harryman and Paul Lasley offer the Auto Club's safe-travel basics and other advice for those who may be traveling during the holidays when planes, trains and public places are crowded. Harryman and Lasley also share information about online travel security resources for travelers.
    A maintenance-free car? It's an urban myth. The ways motorists can determine what operations a car must have and when is the topic of WESTWAYS automotive writer Peter Bohr's column this month.
    The Auto Club has underwritten six episodes of Road Trip with Huell Howser, a public television series. Howser shares each Road Trip with WESTWAYS readers in a column by the same name. Howser's sixth destination in this issue is the coastal route from Oceanside to La Jolla.
    The November/December WESTWAYS also offers how-to consumer tips and spotlights some great restaurants for readers to get their "Just Desserts:"

    -- Bon Appetit:     Restaurant Devon, Monrovia
                        Cayo, Pasadena
                        Pinot Bistro, Studio City
                        Canyon Lodge, Laguna Beach
                        Capriccio, Mission Viejo
                        Zov's Bistro, Tustin
                        Star of the Sea, San Diego
                        Intermezzo, Santa Barbara

    -- Road Trip:       Where the Surf Meets the Turf
    -- On The Money:    Best-Laid Estate Plans
    -- Connections:     Stolen Moments