Sponsored message
Audience-funded nonprofit news
radio tower icon laist logo
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
 — 
See All Episodes
Subscribe

Hey, LA listener!

Download our app for the optimal streaming experience

Apple Store logo Google play logo
  • Listen Now Playing Listen
Off-Ramp

Californian's Invention Imposes Order on World: Road Stripe

By Off-Ramp Staff
Published Nov 14, 2009
Dr. June Robertson McCarroll was sick of treating automobile injuries, so she took matters into her own hands.
Dr. June Robertson McCarroll was sick of treating automobile injuries, so she took matters into her own hands.
(
Jackson Musker
)

About the Show

Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John is sharing selections from the Off-Ramp vault to help you explore this imperfect paradise.

Funding provided by:

Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Listen 2:05
Californian's Invention Imposes Order on World: Road Stripe
road stripe history

So you know what else they invented in the Coachella Valley besides the date shake? The line down the middle of the road. Coachella Valley historian Pat Laflin says an Indio woman named Dr June McCarroll was the hero of this story.

Credits