Originally Posted by pwrof3 (Post 5353418)

Browsing through this thread, I have seen a lot of posts about the old red car rail lines.

I stumbled upon this one day when looking up directions in Long Beach.
I have created a Google map that highlights where the now abandoned route went.
It is very interesting in that Long Beach never restructured or rebuilt the area and most of it is an empty stretch of land. There are a few parks, houses, storage yards and the like. The best part is that the land was never altered and the homes were built on a diagonal from the rest of the neighborhoods!

Check out the map I made, and the pins that go along with it. Start from the northern tip of the map and make your way down the historic rail line!

Note: it is best to zoom in a little, but note that halfway through the map freaks out for a minute, so you may need to zoom out a bit and then zoom back in.

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0...b3aa48792089b1

Originally Posted by Fab Fifties Fan (Post 5353921)

That is great stuff pwrof3, thank you so much for sharing!!! With the fact that so much of the route land is still open, it makes one hope that maybe, just maybe a new line will be built someday. That would be awesome:yes:

Now for some red car sadness:
http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/5...doftheline.jpg
http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/7...inalisland.jpg

A small number of the retired red cars were sold to other cities around the world that still had the foresight to realize the ongoing need for electric transit. The vast majority, however, were stripped of anything that could float and then dropped into the ocean to serve as foundations for coral reefs.

Grrrr:hell:

LAPL

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 4832391)

Six photographs from a panorama taken in 1913.


http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/8...ive7th1913.jpg


All the photographs are from the USC Digital Archive.

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 5355435)

The first bar to open after the repeal of prohibition.

http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/155...ute1a6lapl.jpg
lapl

Originally Posted by Los Angeles Past (Post 5355702)

I wonder if this bar was named after the Malamute Saloon in 'The Shooting of Dan McGrew'?

-S

Originally Posted by sopas ej (Post 4576944)

Northwest corner of Hill and 7th, 1939
http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/5...erofhillan.jpg
USC archive

Of COURSE it's 1939; "Dark Victory" is playing!

Originally Posted by Handsome Stranger (Post 5353015)

Just stumbled across this mystery photo in the "Vintage Los Angeles" pool at Flickr. It's dated February 1938 but there's no specific location given. Griffith Observatory is barely visible at the left.

It looks like the cross street in the middle of the photo intersects at an angle, which made me think it could be San Vicente. But I can't quite match up the topography in the photo with the intersections of San Vicente I am familiar with.

Anyone have any insight into where this photo might have been taken?

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6052/...4f8d909e_b.jpg

source: Flickr