• Streetcars in Los Angeles over history have included horse-drawn streetcars and cable cars, and later extensive electric streetcar networks of the Los...
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  • streetcar system served the area in the earlier part of the 20th century. During the mid-1990s the notion of bringing streetcars back to Los Angeles began...
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    The Los Angeles Railway (also known as Yellow Cars, LARy and later Los Angeles Transit Lines) was a system of streetcars that operated in Central Los Angeles...
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    systems in about 25 cities. Systems included St. Louis, Baltimore, Los Angeles, and Oakland. NCL often converted streetcars to bus operations in that period...
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    system in Southern California consisting of electrically powered streetcars, interurban cars, and buses and was the largest electric railway system in the...
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    Greater Los Angeles is the most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. state of California, encompassing five counties in Southern California extending...
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    important terminus of the Los Angeles Railway ("Yellow Cars") streetcars. The Pico Blvd. city streetcar line "P" turned around here in the Rimpau Loop. From...
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    South Los Angeles, also known as South Central Los Angeles or simply South Central, is a region in southwestern Los Angeles County, California, lying...
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    west. Larchmont Village was developed in the late 1800s. By 1920, it had become a streetcar suburb of Los Angeles. Julius LaBonte (1879–1968), a developer...
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    Downtown Los Angeles (DTLA) is the central business district of Los Angeles. It is part of the Central Los Angeles region and covers a 5.84 sq mi (15...
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    popular in the south in cities such as New Orleans, Louisiana. In many cities, streetcars drawn by a single animal were known as "bobtail streetcars" whether...
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  • of Los Angeles began in 1781 when 44 settlers from central New Spain (modern Mexico) established a permanent settlement in what is now Downtown Los Angeles...
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    The Los Angeles Metro Rail is an urban rail transit system serving Los Angeles County, California, United States, consisting of six lines: four light rail...
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  • The following is a list of important sites of interest in and around the city of Los Angeles. Contents:  Top 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S...
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    East Los Angeles (Spanish: Este de Los Ángeles), or East L.A., is an unincorporated area situated within Los Angeles County, California, United States...
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    alternately spelled Angeleno Heights, is one of the oldest neighborhoods in Los Angeles. Situated between neighboring Chinatown and Echo Park, the neighborhood...
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    Denver Tramway (category Streetcars in Colorado)
    operated over 250 streetcars. By the end of trolley service, only 64 streetcars were still in use. After streetcar operation ceased in 1950 the tramway...
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    a neighborhood and district in the central region of Los Angeles County, California, mostly within the city of Los Angeles. Its name has come to be a shorthand...
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    The Los Angeles Dodgers are an American professional baseball team based in Los Angeles. The Dodgers compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member...
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    for most of the public transportation system in Los Angeles County, California, the most populated county in the United States. The agency directly operates...
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    Sawtelle /sɔːˈtɛl/ is a neighborhood in West Los Angeles, on the Westside of Los Angeles, California. The short-lived City of Sawtelle grew around the...
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    Watts is a neighborhood in southern Los Angeles, California. It is located within the South Los Angeles region, bordering the cities of Lynwood, Huntington...
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    Del Rey (Spanish for "of the King") is a neighborhood in the Westside of Los Angeles, surrounded on three sides by Culver City, California. Within it lie...
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    serving more and more parts of Los Angeles and the greater area of Los Angeles County; Los Angeles was the last major city in the United States to get a permanent...
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    the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913. The community was a stop for the Pacific Electric railway streetcars that transported passengers from downtown Los Angeles...
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    economic growth in the South Los Angeles region. The corridor was originally served by Los Angeles Railway Line 5 yellow streetcars until 1955 when the...
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    Los Angeles Metro Bus is the transit bus service in Los Angeles County, California operated by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority...
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  • Trolleys?". Los Angeles Times. Long, Tony. "March 31, 1963: L.A. Streetcars Take Their Last Ride". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. "Who killed L.A.'s streetcars? We all...
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    The Los Angeles streetcar strike of 1919 was the most violent revolt against the open-shop policies of the Pacific Electric Railway Company in Los Angeles...
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    streetcar, c.1896 A Los Angeles Railway electric streetcar, c.1900-1910 Horse-drawn streetcars started with the Spring and Sixth Street Railroad in 1874...
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