Archive for January 4th, 2013
4th January
2013
In 1960, Long Beach entrepreneur Allen Parkinson (inventor of Sleep-Eze) had a clever idea to speed people across the international border at San Ysidro. Partnering with Tijuana businessmen, Parkinson would build a mile-long aerial tramway to whisk passengers across the line in a Disneyland-style skyride. Regrettably, the scheme fizzled, but not before San Diego architect Frank L. Hope produced this fascinating rendering.
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