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    • Archive
      • Online Archive of California
      • Search Digitized Material
        • Search California Highways and Public Works Magazine: 1924-1967
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Pre-Metro Transit Agencies in Los Angeles

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  • Los Angeles County Transportation Commission (1976-1993)
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Los Angeles Automobile & Roads History

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  • The rise of cars in Los Angeles
  • Lost Parkways Of Los Angeles: the 1946 proposed Inter-regional, Regional, and Metropolitan Plan

Los Angeles Transit History

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  • “Come Ride With Us” On The Rolling Submarines Of Los Angeles: SCRTD’s 1974 “Street Fleet” Beach Bus Service
  • Planning The El Monte – Century City Backbone Route (Complete With Nuclear Fallout Shelters, Large-Capacity Helicopters And A Beverly Hills Subway)
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  • Los Angeles and the 1932 Summer Olympics
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  • How Silent Film Star Harold Lloyd “Flew” Through 1924 Multi-Modal Los Angeles

People in Los Angeles Transit

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  • Arcola Philpott: L.A.’s first African American motorman was a woman
  • Cartographer Laura L. Whitlock
  • Jennie Shand: World War I & Los Angeles’ first female streetcar operator
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