Before the freeway bypassed the town, there were five gas stations, a grocery store, cafe, a swimming pool, an open air dance hall, and a show house.

Before the freeway, Highland Avenue passes the Hollywood and Highland shopping center as well as the Hollywood Bowl, whereupon it goes directly onto northbound US 101.

Before completion of the Indiana portion of I-94, the freeway ended at the present exit 1.

Before Route 237 was upgraded to freeway status in the mid-1990s, it was a 4-6 lane street, known as Alviso-Milpitas Road or Milpitas-Alviso Road depending on different maps showing the description.

Before this bypass was constructed, the sweeping curve of the freeway at the Hallam end that became the South Gippsland Freeway had its capacity reduced from three lanes to two, resulting in a notorious bottle-neck at peak hours, especially for out-bound traffic exiting at the Princes Highway interchange outside Dandenong ; the extension finally bypassed the entire problem.

Before the freeway was completed in the 1970s, OR 217 ran along surface streets.

Before the freeway was built, the route went through Simi Valley on Los Angeles Avenue and Keuhner Drive, then crossed into the San Fernando Valley on Santa Susana Pass Road.

Before the Loma Prieta earthquake, the freeway continued beyond Fell Street and then curved northeast, with the northbound side ending at a ramp to Golden Gate Avenue and Franklin Street, and the southbound level touching down to the northwest at Turk and Gough Streets.

Before the present-day freeway was built, SR 78 was routed on the Vista Way Freeway ( which was an expressway ) from Oceanside east to downtown Vista.

Before the completion of the freeway, from 1968 to 1992, the neighborhood was known for prostitution, drugs, drive-by shootings, and gangs.

Before the freeway was built in Milpitas, Fremont, Hayward and Oakland, SR 17 followed what is now Old Oakland Road ( San Jose ), Main Street ( Milpitas ) and Warm Springs Boulevard ( southern Fremont ); from the Irvington section of Fremont, the route proceeded along what is now Fremont Boulevard, which becomes Alvarado Boulevard in Union City.

Before completion of the I-494 freeway in 1985, I-494 had a missing link during the previous twenty years.

Before the Draft Act was passed Baker had confidentially briefed governors, sheriffs, and prospective draft board members on the administration of the measure -- and the confidence was kept so well that only one newspaper learned what was going on.

Before the fight was over, the Harlem boy had a concussion and Trig was cut up badly.

Before he left the apartment he knocked on their door and asked if there was anything he could do for them.

Before he left town Pat saw to it that I was fixed up with a job.

Before the airplanes came, he said, travel in Laos was just about impossible.

Before coming on a visit to Spelman in 1885, Miss Mary had been a successful teacher in Worcester, and her position there was held open for her for a considerable period.

Before he was forty Griffith had created the art of the film.

Before appealing to the U.N. or to Russia, he first appealed to the U.S. for military help, and was rejected.

Before her chore was finished she was rescuing wind-blown sheets of music, trundling microphones about the stage, helping to move the piano and otherwise joining in the informal atmosphere.

Before ASCII was developed, the encodings in use included 26 alphabetic characters, 10 numerical digits, and from 11 to 25 special graphic symbols.

Before Europeans discovered other oceans, the term " ocean " itself was synonymous with the waters beyond the Strait of Gibraltar that we now know as the Atlantic.

Before he could pass the river with safety, however, it was necessary to subdue certain fortresses, one of which was for several days vigorously defended by the governor, Yussuf el-Harezmi, a Khwarezmian.

Before the 1989 series began, the win-loss ratio was almost even, with 87 wins for Australia to England's 86, 74 having been drawn.

Before the late modern era, the abbot was treated with the utmost reverence by the brethren of his house.

Before the creation of the world, God was all by Himself, in a Self-absorbed state.

Before the Tennessee electorate voted on secession, Johnson, at his peril, toured the state, speaking in opposition to the measure, contending it was unconstitutional.

Before his death, he was absolved from the excommunication ; moreover, the Pope also promised that the King of Hungary and his relatives would not be excommunicated without the special permission of the Pope.

Before the 2007 season began, Vick was suspended indefinitely by the NFL after pleading guilty to charges involving dog fighting in the state of Virginia.

Before the War, Paul was a creative, sensitive, and passionate person, writing poems and having a clear love for his family.

Before the war Tjaden was a locksmith.

Before we built the new jail, we used to keep prisoners in here overnight sometimes when the old jail got too crowded.

Before the Datsun brand name came into being, an automobile named the DAT car was built in 1914, by the, in the Azabu-Hiroo District in Tokyo.

Before his execution in 1553 by Queen Mary for attempting to place Lady Jane Grey on the throne, Dudley had built the new stable block and widened the tiltyard to its current form.

Before a mutual solution could be devised, the mosque was destroyed on December 6, 1992 as the mosque was built by Babur allegedly on the site of a previous Hindu temple marking the birthplace of Rama.

Before Rowell Jackman Hall was built, the site was home to a parking lot and the historic Stephenson House.

* Before 1 October, Huntingdon Beaumont completes the Wollaton Wagonway, built to transport coal from the mines at Strelley to Wollaton just west of Nottingham, England.

Before the district was built, it mainly was agricultural area with some villages.

Before the end of the war in August 1945, the HEW built 554 buildings at Hanford, including three nuclear reactors ( 105-B, 105-D, and 105-F ) and three plutonium processing canyons ( 221-T, 221-B, and 221-U ), each long.

Before 2003, it was not proven that the original Hindu temple was demolished or dramatically modified on the orders of the Mughal Emperor Babur and the mosque was built in its place.

Before becoming a director himself, he built his reputation as a film writer with articles in Esquire.

Before bridges were built, the main means of crossing the river was by ferry.

Before that, only a few earlier experiments, typically in newly built upper-middle-class family homes, had open kitchens.

Before World War II, when the first modern hotel was built ( i. e. H Cerna, 1930 ) it remained a popular destination with Western Europeans, who lent the town a refined elegance.

Before the church was built, there was a temple consecrated to Živa, the Slavic goddess of love and fertility.

Before his death he had the upper terrace widened to hold a larger parterre and enclosed with latticework and pavilions ; his successor, Louis XII, built a gallery round the terrace which can be seen in the 1576 engraving by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, in Les plus excellens bastimens de France.

Before the extension was built, the façade was hidden behind a small terrace of shops.

Before an effective sewerage system was built, it became an open sewer which dumped waste directly into the river for many years during the 1800s and early 1900s.

Before interstate highways were built, Allendale had several motels, primarily serving travelers going between Northeastern states and Florida.

Before the new highway was built, U. S. Highway 75 followed Galveston Road ( now mostly State Highway 3 ), Broadway Street, and Harrisburg Boulevard into downtown Houston.

Before 1889, the Kansas Southern Railway ( later the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway ) had built a line from the Kansas-Oklahoma border to Purcell in Indian Territory.

* Remote positions: 17 ( 34 Before New T2 was built )

Before the New Deal, when the Tennessee Valley Authority built Guntersville Dam, flooding on the Tennessee River would frequently leave the county courthouse in Guntersville inaccessible for residents of Albertville and other areas atop Sand Mountain.

Before the present airstrip was built in the mid-1960s, wheeled aircraft landed on nearby sandbars.

Before the popularity of the automobile and better roads in the area such as Arkansas Highway 43 ( which was built in 1927 and had been blacktopped by 1948 ), Bergman had a number of businesses and flourished as a small town.

Before Greers Ferry Lake was built, Higden moved to a hill.