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Los Angeles Metro Transportation Research Library

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June 02, 2012
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Broadway & Olympic 1940 Looking N from Los Angeles Railway headquarters building on Flickr.
circa 1940 Broadway & Olympic, looking North from 1060 S. Broadway.

Broadway & Olympic 1940 Looking N from Los Angeles Railway headquarters building on Flickr.

circa 1940

Broadway & Olympic, looking North from 1060 S. Broadway.

Tags: Los Angeles Broadway PCC Streetcars Los Angeles Railway (1890-1945) LARY Rail Exterior Building Structures HistoryPin Dorothy Peyton Gray Transportation Library and Archive

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October 10, 2011
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Broadway- late 1940s.  Look North on Flickr.Los Angeles

Broadway- late 1940s. Look North on Flickr.

Los Angeles

Tags: LATL Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority Collection Broadway Downtown PCC Streetcar Building Structures HistoryPin

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The Dorothy Peyton Gray Transportation Library and Archive at the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority is the largest transit operator research collection in the US.

We are partners with the National Transportation Library, member of the OCLC library network, member of the Western Transportation Knowledge Network, member of the Getty/USC LA as Subject archives forum, an affiliate of the National Academies Transportation Research Board, and members of the Special Library Association's Transportation Division.

We advocate using social media tools to connect communities and research. For more information, visit metro.net/library or email us at library@metro.net

See the Metro Research Library's Transportation Headlines and Primary Resources blogs, and daily Twitter Tabloid from Paper.li.

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