Freeways were also used as an excuse to "clear" neighborhoods deemed to be "undesirable" or"outmoded". Paradise Valley is a prime example, as are old Chinatown, Skid Row, the Western Market, and the south part of Corktown. Even areas that weren't directly in the path of the freeway itself, but just nearby [[like Chinatown) were often cleared as "slums" as part of the freeway building project. The entire east half of what we now call Woodbridge, where my mother grew up, was demolished as part of the building of the Lodge Freeway, because it was seen at the time as a hopelessly outmoded neighborhood full of Victorian homes that were 'hideous' old-fashioned eyesores.