History
Before the present SR 19 was constructed, San Gabriel Boulevard, which extended from Lamanda Park south to Downey, and was widened and repaved by an assessment tax in 1925, was the main road through the Whittier Narrows, requiring several turns to stay on it and to continue south to Long Beach. The state legislature added Route 168 to the state highway system in 1933, which followed this general alignment between Route 60 (SR 1) in Long Beach and Route 9 (Foothill Boulevard, then US 66) near Lamanda Park.
SR 19 was designated out of the 1964 state highway renumbering. However, since then, many segments of SR 19 have been relinquished to the cities that they run through. Caltrans relinquished Long Beach's portion of SR 19 to the city in 1998, and Downey's segment of SR 19 was relinquished to the city in 2001. However, the segment in Pico Rivera was not relinquished to that city until 2004. In October 2006, the northern portion of SR 164 that went through an unincorporated area of the county from Callita Street to Foothill Boulevard was relinquished to the county. In 2008, the section of SR 164 through Temple City was relinquished to that city.
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