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The class struggle behind the story of his 1915 lynching remains tragically relevant.
On 17 August 1915, Leo Frank, a Cornell-educated Jewish industrialist, was lynched in suburban Atlanta. The at...
Map showing the lines of the Pacific Electric Railway ("Red Cars"), offering 2,700 scheduled trains on 1,000 miles of standard trolley lines across Southern California
This is the story of Peter Blackstock's war, he joining The Royal Navy Patrol Service and, following his early years of minesweeping, Peter joined 'HDML 1227' only to be sunk off Greece and, taken ...
This 1992 400-Mile Metro Rail Plan (Heavy Rail Subway, Light Rail lines and Commuter Rail) was envisioned as a 30- year project with a projected cost of $55.6 billion. Note that the westward exten...
A half-cent sales tax initiative for transportation improvements, Proposition C, was approved by Los Angeles County voters in 1990. In contrast with Proposition A, a previously approved half-cent ...
The 1980 Downtown People Mover would have created a 2.9 mile automated above-ground distribution system covering 13 station/activity centers between Los Angeles' Union Station and the Convention Ce...
This map from 1980 was included in Proposition A: Voter Information Materials, Rail Rapid Transit System. The half-cent sales tax for transportation was approved by a majority of Los Angeles Count...
The 1976 Proposed Sunset Coast Rapid Transit Master Plan was another proposal for ballot initiative. It suggested a 281-mile system: 230 miles of heavy rail and 51 miles of light rail at a project...
The 1974 Proposed Transit Master Plan Concept was devised for a ballot initiative. The initial 116 miles of mass rapid transit would eventually expand to a 250-mile system with 24 miles of dedicat...
Adopted in 1974, the City of Los Angeles envisioned a low-density city with high-density housing and commercial development around specific interconnected rail rapid transit hubs identified through...
The 1968 Final Proposed Transit Master Plan Concept was devised for ballot initiative. The initial 62-mile, four corridor system that could expand to 300 miles was projected to cost $2.5 billion d...
The 1961 New Proposed Backbone Route Plan, scaled down and revised for elevated rail from El Monte to downtown and subway from downtown to Century City: 22.7 miles total, 12 miles in subway along ...
1961 Backbone Route, Wilshire Corridor Underground Fallout Shelter Area detail. The shelter was located between Westwood and downtown Los Angeles, with an entrance at Alvarado Street.