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unusual facts about The Grapevine


The Grapevine

The Grapevine, a road grade that ascends from California's San Joaquin Valley to the Tejon Pass in the Tehachapi Mountains



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Antonio López García

The Grapevine (1960) evokes Tiepolo's sunlight, The Quince Tree (1962) Chardin's dusky murk, and other paintings echo Old Masters from Dürer to Degas.

Grapevine, California

In 1955, Charlie Ryan wrote and performed a popular song known as "Hot Rod Lincoln", about a teenager who races his souped-up Lincoln against a Cadillac up the Grapevine hill.

Titus Canyon

Although the Grapevine Mountains were uplifted relatively recently, most of the rocks that make up the range are over half a billion years old.