We don’t really need a reminder of how widespread the automobile became in Southern California, especially after World War II. But after flipping through the Flickr stream of the Orange County Archives, it becomes abundantly clear how dependent Southern California became on the automobile so quickly. Many of the scenes in the collection that show automobiles display the mega-sized parking lots and wide, automobile-saturated roads that were widespread in the area while the rest of the country still dealt with two-lane highways, dirt parking lots and minimal amounts of traffic.
