Madrone Ave. looking toward Magnolia, through Doliver Park. The low-tech solution to aid drivers in avoiding the trees in the roadway was to nail white planks to their trunks, as in the case of one toward the right.

This was, in fact, about a year after several of these trees survived a proposal to cut them down in the interest of traffic safety. In May of 1961, a petition to that effect signed by 39 canyon residents was presented to the City Council. The idea was to make the roadway two lanes through the Park. The city marked 15 trees and waited for the reaction. The next Council meeting in June found the chamber packed with opponents to the plan, who presented a new petition signed by over 70 residents. That was the last attempt to do anything like that.

That's a 1960 Rambler, by the way.

Photo by Paul Penna