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Los Angeles Railway Pictorial #792 by Moreau Western Traction Quarterly 1964
Los Angeles Railway Pictorial #792 by Moreau Western Traction Quarterly 1964
The Los Angeles Railway Pictorial
Western Traction Quarterly Vol 1 #2 1964 Summer
Jeffery J. Moreau
Soft Cover
Limited Edition #792 of 1,000
116 Pages
Copyright 1964
Gone forever are the balmy, temperate days when it was possible to jump on one of the many yellow street cars of the Los Angeles Railway and load up the family for a day's outing at Chutes Park or the Selig Zoo; no longer can one see an endless procession of narrow gauge trolleys clanging their way up Broadway or down Seventh Street with scores of happy Angelenos hurrying to and fro. But it was not long ago when these were everyday events in the life of one living in Los Angeles, a city of leisure.
World War I was over in 1918, and Los Angeles began the fabulous "Flapper" era with many thousands of new residents. The balmy weather, acting like a gigantic magnet, attracted new businesses and workers out of the cold eastern climates. The shining yellow cars of Huntington's Los Angeles Railway were like an army of ants, scurrying hither and yon over thin silver pathways. People were carefree, for there were to be no more wars, and the post war prosperity would never end. The only dark cloud was prohibition; but who really cared, for a couple of knocks on a known door brought you into one of the many speak-easys dotting Los Angeles. On your new wire-less receiever you could hear Paul Whiteman, Rudy Vallee and Bing Crosby, or go downtown and see Clara Bow, Gloria Swanson or Laurel and Hardy at the new "Million Dollar" or "Los Angeles" movie theatres, or if your taste was for vaudeville, you might catch Pat Rooney at the Orpheum on Broadway. No, the man you saw hanging out of the building downtown was not going to commit suicide, it was the young comedian, Harold Lloyd, filming another of his famous motion pictures. And amongst all this, were The L. A. Railway cars, clanging their way through a stream of Tin Lizzies and Pierce Arrows.
So there you have a glance at what life represented in those golden years. Now let us turn the pages and observe pictorially, the rise and fall of one man's dream, the Los Angeles Railway.
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