Then: A photo from 1947 shows Highway 99W through Orland before the upgrade — “just another stretch of regulation highway with no oiled pavement on either side,” as editor L.W. Wigmore put it. Photo: Eastman’s Original Collection at UC Davis. (See "now" photo below.)
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