Lindbrook Drive meets Westwood Boulevard outside of a Ralph’s supermarket in Westwood Village.
Photographer: Ansel Adams.
Circa 1940.
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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Los Angeles City Hall.
Photographer: Ansel Adams.
Circa 1940.
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.
Traveling through rush hour traffic in downtown Los Angeles, 1949.
By Loomis Dean
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Early Trolleys, Los Angeles (by metrolibrarian)
Archival footage of early horse-drawn and electric streetcars or trolleys in Los Angeles, California.
