Author: Architect and Engineer Company

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-11-10

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 9781334230738

Excerpt from The Architect and Engineer of California Pacific Coast States, Vol. 28: February April, 1912 In some sections this difficulty has never been overcome, while in other districts cable cars solved the transportation problem, and later the electric trolley cars were found available. An immense amount of heavy grading has also helped to make many streets practical and accessible. Visitors, in wandering about the city, marvel at the strange appear ance of many queer looking streets. Some dip through deep canyons; others present the appearance of a series of terraces, having a sheer fall for hundreds of feet on one side, with a towering sio-pe on the other; while still others, crossing the backbone of narrow ridges, are flanked with houses whose foundations are considerably below the street level. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.