Monthly Archives: July, 2010
From the Venice Short Line to Rapid Bus #733: A History of Transit Service on Venice Boulevard.
In honor of Metro’s new Venice Bl. Rapid Bus (#733), I will describe the history of public transportation on Venice Boulevard. It Began With A Rail Line…. The story starts in 1897 when the Pasadena and Pacific Railway, one of Los Angeles’ early streetcar companies, built a line along 16th Street (later renamed Venice Boulevard) […]
Southern California’s “Secret” Libraries – The Southern Regional Library Facility (SRLF) at UCLA
(An occasional series describing a less-well known library or archive in Southern California, and its relevance to transportation history) To be an effective transportation (or other kind of) historian, it is often necessary to access older documents in print or microfilm. Not everything is on the Internet (yet…) However, old books and periodicals can be […]
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