1873:  The Los Angeles City Council approves the first franchise ordinance, applied for the day prior, which read as follows:

“An ordinance granting franchise to D. V. Waldron and provided for a franchise for the period of five years, for the purpose of laying down and maintaining two iron railroad tracks and to run cars thereon, to be propelled by horses or mules, and to carry passengers thereon, commencing at a point on North Main Street at Alameda Street south on Main Street to the City limits, which was a point just south of the present corner of Jefferson and Main.”

1950:  The last day of service for Pacific Electric Railway‘s Newport line.