In Fiction
The tunnel is featured in the Clint Eastwood film Dirty Harry and the Humphrey Bogart film Dark Passage. The honking of horns in the tunnel, often done deliberately for the sake of hearing the echoes, was the inspiration for harmonicist Bruce "Creeper" Kurnow's composition Honk If You Love Harmonica.
In the film Bicentennial Man, a futuristic view of a relocated U.S. 101 Highway is used which bypasses the historic Waldo Grade.
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