The highway up Mount Shasta was begun in 1930 and finished in 1942. It was named Everitt Memorial Highway in honor of John Everitt, a U.S. Forest Service supervisor who was killed in a fire on the mountain in 1935.
This photo from the early '40s was taken by photographer and historian Ted Graves.
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