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need to ask question to our more advance (in age) members
WTF was an auto-club?
i know AAA is an autoclub..or was an autoclub. how were they funded? 100% member fee funding? i know they did highway projects back in the day. like signs. until 1947, all California signs were done by various autoclubs. how the heck did they pay for that? there is very little on the google.
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Hey, I'm old..born in '43, but I'm not that old..
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I'm an AAA member and I get the regional mag each month. IIRC, they used to maintain certain roads and hi-ways. I think the AAA had some doing is establishing the first real road from our northern SoCal vally to Bakersfield. Now called the Ridge Route.
"The road got its name because it followed the ridge line of the mountains, a crossing so difficult that one time there was serious talk of splitting the state in two. Southern California interests, including the Auto Club, worked to make the road a reality and preserve the state as one. The road was finished in 1915. Today, you can still drive a portion of the original Ridge Route - more than 30 miles of bad road, spectacular views , and history." —Ridge Route Scholar
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AAA is similar to the NRA, in that it is a private organization of members.
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I’m pretty old and can’t answer the question. Nothing new there.
However, being old eliminates the need for asking a buncha questions. The OP is one such question. |
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