Road to the Angels: Route 66 in Greater L.A.

Traffic blazes past as Jupiter and Saturn shine above Sheila Klein's "Vermonica". A portmanteau of "Vermont" and "Santa Monica" (the boulevards near which it was originally located), "Vermonica" is Sheila Klein's homage to the diverse streetlamps that have called Los Angeles home over the years. Originally installed at a nearby shopping center, this latest iteration is more clearly visible from Santa Monica Boulevard, which carried historic Route 66 from 1936-64.

A Chevrolet Volt and Tesla Model 3 glide by on the historic Arroyo Seco Parkway as a Metro L Line train passes overhead on the historic 1896 Santa Fe Railway trestle, the same rail line that 66 followed from New Mexico all the way to Los Angeles. Part of that line was converted to light rail around the turn of the millennium. The parkway, the first freeway in the western United States, opened in 1940 to bypass traffic-choked neighborhoods between Pasadena and downtown Los Angeles.