Pacific Coast Highway

Pacific Coast Highway may refer to:

  • Pacific Coast Highway (California), segments of California State Route 1
    • Pacific Coast Highway (LACMTA station)
    • Pacific Coast Highway (Harbor Transitway station)
  • Pacific Coast Highway (New Zealand), part of the New Zealand State Highway network

In music:

  • "Pacific Coast Highway" (song), by Hole
  • "Pacific Coast Highway", a song from Sister (Sonic Youth album)
  • "Pacific Coast Highway", a song by Kavinsky from the EP Nightcall
  • "Pacific Coast Highway", a song by Burt Bacharach from Make It Easy on Yourself
  • "PCH", a song from Yours Truly (Sublime with Rome album)

Famous quotes containing the words pacific coast, pacific, coast and/or highway:

    I need not tell you of the inadequacy of the American shipping marine on the Pacific Coast.... For this reason it seems to me that there is no subject to which Congress can better devote its attention in the coming session than the passage of a bill which shall encourage our merchant marine in such a way as to establish American lines directly between New York and the eastern ports and South American ports, and both our Pacific Coast ports and the Orient and the Philippines.
    William Howard Taft (1857–1930)

    The principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific substitute for civil war in which the opposing armies are counted and the victory is awarded to the larger before any blood is shed. Except in the sacred tests of democracy and in the incantations of the orators, we hardly take the trouble to pretend that the rule of the majority is not at bottom a rule of force.
    Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)

    I need not tell you of the inadequacy of the American shipping marine on the Pacific Coast.... For this reason it seems to me that there is no subject to which Congress can better devote its attention in the coming session than the passage of a bill which shall encourage our merchant marine in such a way as to establish American lines directly between New York and the eastern ports and South American ports, and both our Pacific Coast ports and the Orient and the Philippines.
    William Howard Taft (1857–1930)

    The highway presents an interesting study of American roadside advertising. There are signs that turn like windmills; startling signs that resemble crashed airplanes; signs with glass lettering which blaze forth at night when automobile headlight beams strike them; flashing neon signs; signs painted with professional touch; signs crudely lettered and misspelled.... They extol the virtues of ice creams, shoe creams, cold creams;...
    —For the State of Florida, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)