Category Archives: Transportation

MTA Plans Rapid Transit Route From Century City to El Monte!!

Posted on May 15, 2011 by lmharnisch

May 15, 1961: The Metropolitan Transit Authority announces plans for a rapid transit system from Century City to El Monte! The proposed line, including 12 miles of subway, would extend from the downtown area … Continue reading →

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Found on EBay – Angels Flight

Posted on May 9, 2011 by lmharnisch

Postcards of Angels Flight are fairly common, but I can’t say I have ever seen one taken from this perspective on 3rd Street. Bidding starts at $6.89.

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Found on EBay — Mystery Postcard [Updated]

Posted on May 7, 2011 by lmharnisch

[Update: What’s wrong with this postcard? Notice City Hall way down the block? Please congratulate Cat Murray for recognizing this as Broadway, not Spring Street. ] This postcard of downtown Los Angeles has been listed on … Continue reading →

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Found on EBay — John Barrymore’s Town Car

Posted on May 4, 2011 by lmharnisch

A photograph of John Barrymore’s 1930 Cord L-29, with a body by Murphy Coach Builders of Pasadena, has been listed on EBay. According to an 1989 article in the Spartanburg Herald-Journal, this car is in the Auburn, … Continue reading →

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, April 17, 1941

Posted on April 17, 2011 by lmharnisch

SANTA FE CHIEF, April 16 — NOTHING MAKES YOU feel more remote from the toil, trouble and strife of the war world than a powerful train. It's a moving island from which all disturbing influences … Continue reading →

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Paul Coates and Matt Weinstock, April 14, 1961

Posted on April 14, 2011 by lmharnisch

April 14, 1961: Like some huge, weird, robot-like monster in a dream, the steel and concrete pillars and bridges of the Santa Monica Freeway are advancing slowly westward from Figueroa Street to Venice Boulevard, laying waste all before … Continue reading →

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, April 6, 1941

Posted on April 6, 2011 by lmharnisch

The country is virtually at war. Its defense efforts are being hamstrung by unjustified strikes, uncooperative industrialists and blathermouthed, spotlight-hunting politicians. The average man in America has, with excellent reason, such a deep distrust of inefficient nincompoops in public office that his patriotism is in danger of being poisoned by his distrust.
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Kennedy Kills Project to Build Atomic Airplane

Posted on April 1, 2011 by lmharnisch

April 1, 1961: You may not recall the idea of nuclear-powered aircraft, but there was once such an idea. General Electric, one of the companies involved in the experiment, "challenged President Kennedy's statements that achievement … Continue reading →

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Private Investigator Held in Extortion

Posted on March 31, 2011 by lmharnisch

Private investigator Charles R. Chase decided to make a little extra money by squeezing an extra $900 out of a teenager who stole $100 from the drugstore where he worked. The police set a trap and … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock, March 24, 1961

Posted on March 24, 2011 by lmharnisch

March 24, 1961: Matt Weinstock drives to Alhambra for the first time in a long while and wonders why he keeps seeing big green signs directing motorists to Bakersfield. CONFIDENTIAL TO "IN LOVE WITH THE BOSS": … Continue reading →

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Paul Coates and Matt Weinstock, March 11, 1961

Posted on March 11, 2011 by lmharnisch

March 11, 1961: The unemployed man who turned in $240,000 that fell from a Brink’s armored car gets a job offer! An overturned propane trailer causes a five-hour jam on the Hollywood Freeway, Matt Weinstock says, … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock, March 2, 1961

Posted on March 2, 2011 by lmharnisch

March 2, 1961: Why are so many streetlights out in West L.A.? Matt Weinstock has the story, and it’s a good one. DEAR JEALOUS: A married woman often "flirts" because she needs the reassurance that she is desirable, … Continue reading →

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Paul Coates, Feb. 2, 1961

Posted on February 2, 2011 by lmharnisch

Feb. 2, 1961: Los Angeles County Supervisor Ernest Debs (d. 2002) calls for lower fares on buses and streetcars (yes, Los Angeles still had them in 1961) for senior citizens between 9:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. on … Continue reading →

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Paul Coates, Jan. 25, 1961

Posted on January 25, 2011 by lmharnisch

Jan. 25, 1961: Mel Blanc, 51, is making progress after being badly injured in a head-on crash with Menlo College student Arthur Rolston, 18, on Sunset Boulevard at the notorious “Dead Man’s Curve” at Groverton Place. … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock, Jan. 12, 1961

Posted on January 12, 2011 by lmharnisch

Jan. 12, 1961: TWO YOUNGSTERS from a junior high school in the San Fernando Valley, winners of a Community Chest contest, came downtown the other day and, with Suburbia editor John Cornell as guide, were taken on a … Continue reading →

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Amazing Predictions for Aviation!

Posted on January 1, 2011 by lmharnisch

Jan. 1, 1911: The Times asks pilots who are in Los Angeles for the Aviation Meet about the future of flying. The Times said: "We will see in the next few years, if the … Continue reading →

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, Dec. 30, 1940

Posted on December 30, 2010 by lmharnisch

Rose Queen Sally Stanton, Gov. Culbert Olson and Highway Patrol Chief E. Raymond Cato at the ribbon cutting of the Arroyo Seco Parkway (Pasadena Freeway), Dec. 30, 1940. … Continue reading →

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World Record at L.A. Aviation Meet!

Posted on December 27, 2010 by lmharnisch

Los Angeles Times file photo Dec. 27, 1910: The year ends as it began, with an aviation meet. Despite 50-mph winds that swept Dominguez Field, Arch Hoxsey of Pasadena sets a new altitude record … Continue reading →

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, Dec. 17, 1940

Posted on December 17, 2010 by lmharnisch

Dec. 17. 1940: Watching Mae West stroll down the avenue, I always catch myself musing on the sway of all flesh, Jimmie Fidler says.

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, Dec. 11, 1940

Posted on December 11, 2010 by lmharnisch

Test pilot Rudolph B. Lechner, 37, is killed when his SBC-2 Navy bomber fails to come out of a test dive. Dec. 11, 1940: Eleanor Powell has invented a tap-dancing shoe that quadruples the number … Continue reading →

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