There was a big dip between the sea wall and the Journal building that was completely flooded. Most of the area north of Burnside was flooded as well. And all of the Guilds Lake industrial area was flooded. Actually, that may have been when Ira Keller hired Bob Perron to do a plan. That sounds more logical.
Rod can remember the time frame on that.
I remember Ivey, being Lloyd Anderson s very best friend, they talked every day. Ivey came back to the office and wanted me to draw an alternative for routing the traffic from the steel bridge onto Front Avenue, down Front Avenue and then back onto the freeway south of Market St. I ve got one of those drawings in my file, showing what would be vacated in one color and areas which would be new dedicated street area with another color. Ivey took that to the Harbor Drive task force meeting and gave it to Anderson and Anderson presented it. It was just one of the alternatives, nothing ever came of it, but in the end it s exactly what the Highway Department designed and built.