Burying of Temescal Creek

It is likely that this area was paved and the lovely section of creek at 51st and Telegraph buried when sewer pipes were laid throughout the Temescal area in the first decade of the 1900s. The rest of the creek remained open to the sky until it was forced into an underground culvert in the 1970s because of pollution, sewage, and flooding. At this intersection was a large wooden bridge that had both car and rail traffic. It was removed when the creek was buried. The creek section through Frog Park was not buried until the early 2000s.