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Book Official Route Map of the Los Angeles Railway

Download or read book Official Route Map of the Los Angeles Railway written by Los Angeles Railway and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Los Angeles Railway Yellow Cars

Download or read book Los Angeles Railway Yellow Cars written by Jim Walker and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Local rail-borne transit in Los Angeles began with horsecars in 1874, evolving with cable-powered and later electric-powered passenger vehicles. "Yellow Cars" describes the principal local transit system in and around Los Angeles in the first half of the 20th century. The canary-colored local streetcars formed the inner-neighborhood lines between a vast rail network of main lines known as the "interurban" system, primarily the Pacific Electric Railway "Red Cars," which spiderwebbed throughout Los Angeles County and into Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties. Rail tycoon Henry Edwards Huntington consolidated several independent lines into this great interurban empire. He sold it in 1910 to the Southern Pacific Railroad, keeping the Los Angeles Railway Yellow Cars. These evocative photographs illustrate travel during decades of change, progress, economic setbacks, war, and postwar retrenchment, when streetcar service was taken over by bus lines.

Book The Official Railway Guide

Download or read book The Official Railway Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Los Angeles Railway

    Book Details:
  • Author : Steven J. Crise, Michael A. Patris, and the Mount Lowe Preservation Society
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2021
  • ISBN : 1467105880
  • Pages : 96 pages

Download or read book Los Angeles Railway written by Steven J. Crise, Michael A. Patris, and the Mount Lowe Preservation Society and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Los Angeles Railway's Yellow Cars, a system cobbled together from numerous horse-powered lines, cable car lines, and upstart narrow-gauge trolley companies, served downtown and its environs in some iteration from 1898 to 1963. Henry Huntington assembled this conglomerate, making it functionally effective and well patronized."--Back cover.

Book Lines of the Los Angeles Railway

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edmund J. Keilty
  • Publisher : Electric Railway Historical Association of Southern Californ
  • Release : 1999-02-01
  • ISBN : 9780966430424
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book Lines of the Los Angeles Railway written by Edmund J. Keilty and published by Electric Railway Historical Association of Southern Californ. This book was released on 1999-02-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Official Guide of the Railways and Steam Navigation Lines of the United States  Puerto Rico  Canada  Mexico and Cuba

Download or read book The Official Guide of the Railways and Steam Navigation Lines of the United States Puerto Rico Canada Mexico and Cuba written by William Frederick Allen and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rand McNally Official Railway Guide and Hand Book

Download or read book Rand McNally Official Railway Guide and Hand Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority Maps and Routes

Download or read book Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority Maps and Routes written by Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sunset Limited

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  • Author : Cormac McCarthy
  • Publisher : Pan Macmillan
  • Release : 2011-02-04
  • ISBN : 0330535757
  • Pages : 114 pages

Download or read book The Sunset Limited written by Cormac McCarthy and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-02-04 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deft, spare, and full of artful tension, The Sunset Limited is a beautifully crafted play from the legendary Cormac McCarthy, author of No Country for Old Men and Blood Meridian. 'The Sunset Limited grips from the very first page' – Financial Times A startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement where a life or death decision must be made. In that small apartment the two men, known as 'Black' and 'White', begin a conversatino that leads each back through his own history. White is a professor whose seemingly enviable existence of relative ease has left him nonetheless in despair. Black, an ex-con in recovery for drug addiction, is the more hopeful of the men. He is, however, desperate to convince White of the power of faith – while White is desperate to deny it. Between them, they hope to discover the meaning of life itself. Praise for Cormac McCarthy: ‘McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute’ – Anne Enright, author of The Green Road and The Wren, The Wren 'His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power' – Stephen King, author of The Shining and the Dark Tower series '[I]n presenting the darker human impulses in his rich prose, [McCarthy] showed readers the necessity of facing up to existence' – Annie Proulx, author of Brokeback Mountain

Book Two Bells

Download or read book Two Bells written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Los Angeles to Santa Monica

Download or read book Los Angeles to Santa Monica written by Los Angeles and Pacific Raillway Company and published by . This book was released on 1889* with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Santa Fe Route

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  • Author : Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1901
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 5 pages

Download or read book Santa Fe Route written by Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transit Journal

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1902
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 862 pages

Download or read book Transit Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Inventing Paradise

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  • Author : Paul Haddad
  • Publisher : Santa Monica Press
  • Release : 2024-06-18
  • ISBN : 1595807586
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book Inventing Paradise written by Paul Haddad and published by Santa Monica Press. This book was released on 2024-06-18 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inventing Paradise: The Power Brokers Who Created the Dream of Los Angeles traces the improbable rise of Los Angeles through the prism of six visionaries who had outsize influence on the city’s growth: Phineas Banning, Harrison Gray Otis, Henry Huntington, Harry Chandler, William Mulholland, and Moses Sherman. In the late 1870s, Los Angeles was a violent, dusty, 29-square-mile pueblo with a few thousand souls, largely unchanged since its founding in 1781. By 1930, its size had swelled to within 96% of its current 468 square miles, housing a staggering 1.2 million people. In just 50 years, L.A. had joined the ranks of other world-class cities. In the tradition of Mike Davis’s classic work City of Quartz, Paul Haddad (Freewaytopia and 10,000 Steps a Day in L.A.) debunks many myths about the City of Angels with a wildly entertaining narrative that sheds new light on the fascinating birth of modern Los Angeles. Power came from a select few, whose triumphs, scandals, and correspondence are well documented in Inventing Paradise, along with other little-known facts about L.A. history, including: How Los Angeles Times chief Harry Chandler pushed eugenics and endorsed “white spots” Henry Huntington’s and Moses Sherman’s trolley systems and the extortion-type practices that led to their expansion When Los Angeles was so desperate for water, it hired a miracle worker who promised rain How L.A.’s power elite peddled the lie that the Owens River used to flow into Los Angeles and rightfully belonged to the city When Los Angeles annexed a city in which monkeys cast votes How Venice, California, was not the first Venice, California William Mulholland’s game-changing construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, which raised the city’s population ceiling from 250,000 to 2.5 million Haddad also covers the heavy costs that came with creating paradise in such a short period of time, including car dependency, environmental problems, and deep-seated inequities between wealthy white Angelenos and people of color due to racist policies. All have left an imprint on present-day Los Angeles. Los Angeles is known as a city that should not exist—and yet it does. Through Inventing Paradise, Haddad shows readers that Los Angeles is not a paradise found, but a paradise that was willed into existence, owing to the collective vision of these six Gilded Era-born tycoons.

Book Dictionary Catalog of the Map Division

Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Map Division written by New York Public Library. Map Division and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: