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 doctor of Geneva stamped the sand
    That lay impounding the Pacific swell,
    Patted his stove-pipe hat and tugged his shawl.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “What do we want with this vast and worthless area, of this region of savages and wild beasts, of deserts, of shifting sands and whirlwinds, of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs; to what use could we ever hope to put these great deserts, or those endless mountain ranges, impenetrable and covered to their very base with eternal snow? What can we ever hope to do with the western coast, a coast of 3,000 miles, rockbound, cheerless, uninviting and not a harbor in it?”
    —For the State of Kansas, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “The improved American highway system ... isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway ... he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped for food or gas, he was served no local fare or local fuel, but had one of Howard Johnson’s nationally branded ice cream flavors, and so many gallons of Exxon. This vast ocean of superhighways was nearly as free of culture as the sea traversed by the Mayflower Pilgrims.”
    —Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)