Spaghetti Bowl
n.— «Los Angeles’ four-level freeway interchange at Civic Center, sometimes called the Mixmaster, soon will have a companion complexity called the Spaghetti Bowl. Engineers already have hung that name on the $10 million East Los Angeles interchange now fast taking shape southeast of Civic Center.» —“Awesome Interchange Rapidly Taking Shape” by C.A. Mortenson Los Angeles Times Dec. 13, 1959. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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