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It’s “WIL-da-sin”, not “Wild-As-Sin!”
Sometime in the mid-1950s, a local wag noticed the “Wildasin” station on the Santa Fe Harbor Subdivision rail line, near Slauson and Normandie Avenues. He conjectured that the name was derived from “Wild As Sin, ” and imagined that at one time it might have been a neighborhood of ill repute, where people went to […]
History of street names in Los Angeles
Street names have changed over the years in Los Angeles. Knowing the old as well as the new names is important to the transit historian. For example, While many people know that Martin Luther King Bl. used to be known as Santa Barbara Ave., fewer know that Broadway south of Downtown was originally named Moneta […]
For the Amtrak historians out there….
http://www.timetables.org/ (A nearly complete set of Amtrak timetables from its beginning in May 1971…)
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