Beach Bus, 1974 (by metrolibrarian)
Beach Bus, Southern California Rapid Transit District (RTD), 1974.
Promotional video. The Southern California Rapid Transit District launched its summer “Street Fleet” in June 1974 “on four new bus lines (605, 606, 607 and 608) to carry people from different parts of Los Angeles County to Santa Monica.
The motor coaches were specially decorated to look like submarines …
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002 - LATL W Line Car 1505 At N. Figueroa & York Bl. 19480215 on Flickr.
Photographer: Alan Weeks
los Angeles Transit Lines streetcar no.1505 on Line W at North Figueroa Street and York Boulevard, February 15, 1948.
003 - LATL W Line Car 1506 N. Figueroa St. & Buena Vista Terrace 19471124 on Flickr.
Photographer: Alan Weeks
Los Angeles Transit Lines streetcar no.1506 on Line W at North Figueroa Street and Buena Vista Terrace, November 24, 1947.
007 - LATL W Line Car 1544 N. Figueroa St & Meridian19480215 on Flickr.
Photographer: Alan Weeks
Los Angeles Transit Lines streetcar no.1544 on Line W on North Figueroa Street, February 15, 1948.
006 - LATL W Line Car 1511 End of Line At Buena Vista Terrace 19471124 on Flickr.
Photographer: Alan Weeks
Los Angeles Transit Lines streetcar no.1511 at Buena Vista Terrace. November 24, 1947.
Los Angeles City Hall.
Photographer: Ansel Adams.
Circa 1940.
007 LATL 286-1375 V & R Lines 1st & Vermont Loop 19480831 AKW on Flickr.
Photographer: Alan Weeks
Los Angeles Transit Lines streetcar no.286 on Line V and streetcar no.1375 on Line R at the 1st and Vermont Loop, August 31, 1948.
009 LATL 1389 R Line Whitter & Brannick Loop 19480824 AKW on Flickr.
Photographer: Alan Weeks
Los Angeles Transit Lines streetcar no.1389 on Line R at the Brannick Loop, August 24, 1948.
In 1897, a Bicycle Superhighway Was the Future of California Transit | Motherboard:
In 1897, a wealthy American businessman named Horace Dobbins began construction on a private, for-profit bicycle superhighway that would stretch from Pasadena to downtown Los Angeles. It may seem like a preposterous notion now—everyone knows Angelenos don’t get out of their cars—but at the time, amidst the height of a pre-automobile worldwide cycling boom, the idea attracted the attention of some hugely powerful players. And it almost got built.
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