Los Angeles Pacific Electric Railway upgrade plan, 1948 Size:24x36 Berman provides a clear vision

Berman provides a clear vision of just how much was lost

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and DC was eclipsed in commercial importance by Baltimore and Philadelphia

and the "Inglewood Parkway

Los Angeles Pacific Electric Railway upgrade plan, 1948 Size:24x36 Berman provides a clear visionEven through its declining years, the old Red Car system was incredibly extensive. Thus, in 1948, the LA Chamber of Commerce and a Who's Who of LA power brokers Mayor Fletcher Bowron, the City Attorney, a laundry list of corporate executives came up with a plan to take over the Red Car system and to run trains in the median of the freeway system which was then on the drawing board. Then as now, traffic sucked in LA, and it was clear that buses and