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Then & Now: a streetcar and a bus in Highland Park, 1955 and 2013
Photo by Alan Weeks, via Metro Transportation Library & Archive’s Flickr stream. Photo by Steve Hymon/Metro. The top photo was taken in the afternoon on May 21, 1955, by Alan Weeks at the corner of...
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Calling all transit and history fans! Hundreds more “Then & Now” historic...
Broadway at 6th Street, 1938 vs. today (Click for more information) It’s a beautiful thing when Southern Californians take pride in their fascinating and diverse history. This past weekend the Metro...
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Then & Now: in L.A. getting rid of streetcars easier than getting rid of...
Looking west from Crenshaw Boulevard, just south of 67th Street. Photo by Alan Weeks, via the Metro Transportation and Library’s Flickr stream. Click above to visit. Photo by Metro. Looking north at...
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Then & Now: downtown Sierra Madre
Photo by Alan Weeks. Photo by Steve Hymon/Metro Photo by Steve Hymon/Metro If you happened to be in downtown Sierra Madre on Friday afternoon and wondered who the idiot was stumbling around in the...
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Then & Now: streetcars at 6th & Main in downtown Los Angeles
Brian Hsu was gracious enough to allow us to run this Then & Now he ran on his urban diachrony blog. The top photo is looking north on 6th & Main in 1941 with a streetcar heading out of the...
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Then & Now: a streetcar and a bus on Brand Boulevard in Glendale
The top photo was taken at the intersection of Brand and Glenoaks boulevards in 1954 or 1955. The bottom photo was taken at the same location on Wednesday afternoon. Can you spot the similarities and...
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Then & Now: 11th and Broadway in downtown Los Angeles, i.e. the land that...
Photo by Steve Hymon/Metro. The top photo was taken at the intersection of Main and 11th streets in downtown Los Angeles on May 21, 1955, most likely from the front of a streetcar. The bottom photo...
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Then & Now: Vermont & 8th, 1950 vs 2013
Our latest installment in our Then & Now series takes us to the intersection of 8th & Vermont in Los Angeles. The top photo was taken Sept. 2, 1950. I took the bottom photo last month, so...
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