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Los Angeles Railway

Index Los Angeles Railway

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 and surrounding neighborhoods between 1901 and 1963. [1]

81 relations: Angels Flight, Athens, California, Avalon Boulevard, Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, Broadway (Los Angeles), Central Avenue (Los Angeles), Central Los Angeles, Chevron Corporation, City Terrace, California, Colorado Boulevard, Crenshaw Boulevard, Crenshaw, Los Angeles, Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, East Hollywood, Los Angeles, East Los Angeles, California, Echo Park, Los Angeles, El Pueblo de Los Ángeles Historical Monument, Exposition Park (Los Angeles), Figueroa Street, Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, Florence Avenue, General Motors, General Motors streetcar conspiracy, Grand Avenue (Los Angeles), Hancock Park, Hawthorne, California, Henry E. Huntington, Highland Park, Los Angeles, Hollywood, Huntington Park, California, J. G. Brill Company, Jefferson Boulevard, Jefferson Park, Los Angeles, Key System, Koreatown, Los Angeles, Leimert Park, Los Angeles, Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles, List of Brooklyn thoroughfares, List of funicular railways, List of streets named after Martin Luther King Jr., Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority, Los Angeles Streetcar, Los Angeles streets, 41-250, Los Angeles Times, Main Street (Los Angeles), Mid-City, Los Angeles, Montecito Heights, Los Angeles, ..., National City Lines, Oakland, California, Olympic Boulevard (Los Angeles), P (Los Angeles Railway), Pacific Boulevard, Pacific Electric, PCC streetcar, Pico Boulevard, ProQuest, Real estate, San Diego Electric Railway, San Pedro Street, Skid Row, Los Angeles, South Los Angeles, Southern California Rapid Transit District, Spring Street Financial District, St. Louis Car Company, Suburb, Temple Street (Los Angeles), Tram, Trolleybus, Venice Boulevard, Vernon, California, Watts, Los Angeles, West Adams, Los Angeles, Western Avenue (Los Angeles), Westlake, Los Angeles, Whittier Boulevard, Wholesale District, Los Angeles, 1st Street, Los Angeles, 3rd Street, Los Angeles. Expand index (31 more) »

Angels Flight

Angels Flight is a landmark narrow gauge funicular railway in the Bunker Hill district of Downtown Los Angeles, California.

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Athens, California

Athens is a relatively prosperous unincorporated community in the South Los Angeles region of Los Angeles County, California, numbering 9,101 people in the 2000 census.

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Avalon Boulevard

Avalon Boulevard is a north-south street in Los Angeles County.

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Boyle Heights, Los Angeles

Boyle Heights is a neighborhood of almost 100,000 residents east of Downtown Los Angeles in the City of Los Angeles, California.

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Broadway (Los Angeles)

Broadway is a major thoroughfare in central Los Angeles and Los Angeles County, southern California.

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Central Avenue (Los Angeles)

Central Avenue is a major north-south thoroughfare in the central portion of the Los Angeles, California metropolitan area.

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Central Los Angeles

Central Los Angeles is a 57.87-square-mile (149.88 km²) region of Los Angeles County, California, comprising twenty-three neighborhoods within the city of Los Angeles, as well as Griffith Park, the city's largest public park.

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Chevron Corporation

Chevron Corporation is an American multinational energy corporation.

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City Terrace, California

City Terrace is an unincorporated community in the San Rafael Hills of Los Angeles County, California.

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Colorado Boulevard

Colorado Boulevard (or Colorado Street) is a major east–west street in Southern California.

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Crenshaw Boulevard

Crenshaw Boulevard is a principal north-south thoroughfare in Los Angeles, California that runs through Crenshaw and other neighborhoods along a 23-mile route in the west-central part of the city.

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Crenshaw, Los Angeles

Crenshaw, normally referred to as the Crenshaw District, is a neighborhood in South Los Angeles.

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Eagle Rock, Los Angeles

Eagle Rock is a neighborhood of Northeast Los Angeles, located between the cities of Glendale and Pasadena, abutting the San Rafael Hills in Los Angeles County, California.

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East Hollywood, Los Angeles

East Hollywood is a densely populated neighborhood of 78,000+ residents in the central region of Los Angeles, California.

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East Los Angeles, California

East Los Angeles, or East L.A., is an unincorporated area in Los Angeles County, California.

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Echo Park, Los Angeles

Echo Park is a densely populated neighborhood of 43,000+ residents in Central Los Angeles.

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El Pueblo de Los Ángeles Historical Monument

The El Pueblo de Los Ángeles Historical Monument, also known as Los Angeles Plaza Historic District and formerly known as El Pueblo de Los Ángeles State Historic Park, is a historic district taking in the oldest section of Los Angeles, known for many years as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río de Porciúncula.

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Exposition Park (Los Angeles)

Exposition Park is situated in the south region of Los Angeles, California.

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Figueroa Street

Figueroa Street is a major north-south street in Los Angeles County, California, spanning from the Los Angeles neighborhood of Wilmington north to Eagle Rock.

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Firestone Tire and Rubber Company

The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is an American tire company founded by Harvey Firestone in 1900 to supply pneumatic tires for wagons, buggies, and other forms of wheeled transportation common in the era.

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Florence Avenue

Florence Avenue is a major east–west street in central Los Angeles County and South Los Angeles, in Southern California.

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General Motors

General Motors Company, commonly referred to as General Motors (GM), is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Detroit that designs, manufactures, markets, and distributes vehicles and vehicle parts, and sells financial services.

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General Motors streetcar conspiracy

The General Motors streetcar conspiracy refers to convictions of General Motors (GM) and other companies for monopolizing the sale of buses and supplies to National City Lines (NCL) and its subsidiaries, and to allegations that this was part of a deliberate plot to purchase and dismantle streetcar systems in many cities in the United States as an attempt to monopolize surface transportation.

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Grand Avenue (Los Angeles)

Grand Avenue is a major north-south thoroughfare in Los Angeles, California.

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Hancock Park

Hancock Park is a city park in the Miracle Mile section of the Mid-Wilshire district, Los Angeles, California.

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Hawthorne, California

Hawthorne is a city in southwestern Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Henry E. Huntington

Henry Edwards Huntington (February 27, 1850 – May 23, 1927) was an American railroad magnate and collector of art and rare books.

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Highland Park, Los Angeles

Highland Park is a historic neighborhood in Northeast Los Angeles.

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Hollywood

Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California.

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Huntington Park, California

Huntington Park is a city in the Gateway Cities district of southeastern Los Angeles County, California.

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J. G. Brill Company

The J.G. Brill Company manufactured trams/streetcars (also, US: trolleys, trolley cars)Young, Andrew D. (1997).

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Jefferson Boulevard

Jefferson Boulevard is a street in Los Angeles and Culver City.

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Jefferson Park, Los Angeles

Jefferson Park is a neighborhood in the South region of the City of Los Angeles, California.

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Key System

The Key System (or Key Route) was a privately owned company that provided mass transit in the cities of Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda, Emeryville, Piedmont, San Leandro, Richmond, Albany, and El Cerrito in the eastern San Francisco Bay Area from 1903 until 1960, when it was sold to a newly formed public agency, AC Transit.

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Koreatown, Los Angeles

Koreatown is a neighborhood in Central Los Angeles, California, centered near Eighth Street and Irolo Street.

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Leimert Park, Los Angeles

Leimert Park is a residential neighborhood in the South Los Angeles region of Los Angeles, California.

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Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles

Lincoln Heights is considered to be the oldest neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, outside of Downtown.

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List of Brooklyn thoroughfares

This article provides a listing (with simple descriptions, where possible) of the streets in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, including Fort Hamilton, the last active-duty military post in New York City.

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List of funicular railways

This is a list of funicular railways, organised by place within country and continent.

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List of streets named after Martin Luther King Jr.

Streets named after Martin Luther King Jr. can be found in many cities of the United States and in nearly every major metropolis.

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Little Tokyo, Los Angeles

Little Tokyo, also known as Little Tokyo Historic District, is an ethnically Japanese American district in downtown Los Angeles and the heart of the largest Japanese-American population in North America.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (branded as Metro; formerly branded as MTA or LACMTA) is the agency that operates public transportation for the County of Los Angeles.

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Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority

The Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority (sometimes referred to as LAMTA or MTA I) was a public agency formed in 1951.

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Los Angeles Streetcar

The Los Angeles Streetcar is a planned, partly-funded electric streetcar that would return a single route to Downtown Los Angeles.

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Los Angeles streets, 41-250

This article covers streets in Los Angeles, California between and including 41st Street and 250th Street.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Main Street (Los Angeles)

Main Street is a major north-south thoroughfare in Los Angeles, California.

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Mid-City, Los Angeles

Mid-City is a neighborhood in Central Los Angeles, California.

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Montecito Heights, Los Angeles

Montecito Heights is a small district in Northeast Los Angeles.

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National City Lines

National City Lines, Inc. (NCL) was a public transportation company.

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Oakland, California

Oakland is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States.

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Olympic Boulevard (Los Angeles)

Olympic Boulevard (formerly 10th Street) is a major arterial road in Los Angeles, California.

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P (Los Angeles Railway)

P was a line operated by the Los Angeles Railway from 1895 to 1958, and by the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority from 1958 to 1963.

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Pacific Boulevard

Pacific Boulevard is a street and principal commercial thoroughfare in the city of Huntington Park, California.

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Pacific Electric

The Pacific Electric, nicknamed the Red Cars, was a privately owned mass transit system in Southern California consisting of electrically powered streetcars, interurban cars, and buses and was the largest electric railway system in the world in the 1920s.

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PCC streetcar

The PCC (Presidents’ Conference Committee) is a streetcar (tram) design that was first built in the United States in the 1930s.

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Pico Boulevard

Pico Boulevard is a major Los Angeles street that runs from the Pacific Ocean at Appian Way in Santa Monica to Central Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles, California, USA.

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ProQuest

ProQuest LLC is an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based global information-content and technology company, founded in 1938 as University Microfilms by Eugene B. Power.

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Real estate

Real estate is "property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as crops, minerals or water; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this (also) an item of real property, (more generally) buildings or housing in general.

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San Diego Electric Railway

The San Diego Electric Railway (SDERy) was a mass transit system in Southern California, United States, using 600 volt DC streetcars and (in later years) buses.

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San Pedro Street

San Pedro Street is a major north-south thoroughfare in Los Angeles, California, running from Little Tokyo in Downtown Los Angeles to West Rancho Dominguez.

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Skid Row, Los Angeles

Skid Row is an area of Downtown Los Angeles.

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South Los Angeles

South Los Angeles is a region in southern Los Angeles County, California lying to south of downtown Los Angeles, California.

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Southern California Rapid Transit District

The Southern California Rapid Transit District (almost always referred to as RTD or rarely as SCRTD), was the successor to the original Metropolitan Transit Authority after it became apparent that it was under-powered for the job of remaking mass transit in Los Angeles (it lacked the powers of eminent domain and local taxation, and had a seven member board appointed by the Governor), and a public relations problem for elected officials when it rejected monorails after years of study and embraced subway along Wilshire Boulevard as its Backbone Route.

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Spring Street Financial District

The Spring Street Financial District, referred to as the Wall Street of the West, is a historic district in Downtown Los Angeles.

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St. Louis Car Company

The St.

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Suburb

A suburb is a mixed-use or residential area, existing either as part of a city or urban area or as a separate residential community within commuting distance of a city.

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Temple Street (Los Angeles)

Temple Street is a street in the City of Los Angeles, California.

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Tram

A tram (also tramcar; and in North America streetcar, trolley or trolley car) is a rail vehicle which runs on tramway tracks along public urban streets, and also sometimes on a segregated right of way.

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Trolleybus

A trolleybus (also known as trolley bus, trolley coach, trackless trolley, trackless tram Joyce, J.; King, J. S.; and Newman, A. G. (1986). British Trolleybus Systems, pp. 9, 12. London: Ian Allan Publishing.. or trolleyDunbar, Charles S. (1967). Buses, Trolleys & Trams. Paul Hamlyn Ltd. (UK). Republished 2004 with or 9780753709702.) is an electric bus that draws power from overhead wires (generally suspended from roadside posts) using spring-loaded trolley poles.

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Venice Boulevard

Venice Boulevard is a major east–west thoroughfare in Los Angeles, running from the ocean in the Venice district, past the I-10 intersection, into downtown Los Angeles.

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Vernon, California

Vernon is a city five miles (8.0 km) south of downtown Los Angeles, California.

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Watts, Los Angeles

Watts is a neighborhood in southern Los Angeles, California.

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West Adams, Los Angeles

West Adams is a historic neighborhood in the South Los Angeles region of Los Angeles, California.

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Western Avenue (Los Angeles)

Western Avenue is a major four-lane street in the city of Los Angeles (west of Downtown) and through the center portion of Los Angeles County, California.

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Westlake, Los Angeles

Westlake is a residential and commercial neighborhood in Central Los Angeles, California.

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Whittier Boulevard

Whittier Boulevard is an arterial street that runs from the Los Angeles River (where it continues into Downtown Los Angeles as 6th Street) to Brea, California.

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Wholesale District, Los Angeles

The Wholesale District or Warehouse District in Downtown Los Angeles, California, has no exact boundaries, but at present it lies along the BNSF and Union Pacific Railroad lines, which run parallel with Alameda Street and the Los Angeles River.

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1st Street, Los Angeles

1st Street is an east–west thoroughfare in Los Angeles and Monterey Park, California.

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3rd Street, Los Angeles

3rd Street in Los Angeles is a major east–west thoroughfare.

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Redirects here:

Court Flight, LARy, Los Angeles Consolidated Railway, Los Angeles Transit Lines, Los Angeles surface railways, Los angeles railway, Yellow car.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Railway

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