Cahill Expressway (1962) by Jeffrey Smart.

Woman and children at intersection, Photo by Roy DeCarava, 1952

1962 ad detail.

In 1962 the local merchants’ association commissioned the architect Richard Snibbe to design a new Deuce, the blocks of Forty-second Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues (New York). The plans called for restoration of live theater at some of the ten remaining theaters, glass-fronted retail all along the blocks, and pedestrian walkways above the street. A concrete divider in the middle was to be planted with seasonal landscaping.

Robert McCall

Full parking lot at the Theme Building, Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), Los Angeles, California, 1962. Ralph Crane