On The Tinsel Front

Tag: Santa Monica Air Line

  • Culver City

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    Christopher Bomba
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    Ollie: It’s in California in a town called Culver City, which is near Los Angeles… Culver City is a Southern California town with a rich history and the location for much of TINSEL FRONT’s first season. The city was founded in 1917 by developer Harry Culver at the junction of several rail lines. (See post…

  • Pacific Electric Railway Red Cars

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    Christopher Bomba
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    Ollie: As instructed, I got off the trolley at the National stop and walked up a block… “The Pacific Electric Railway Company, 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.” Wikipedia Los Angeles’ once great transit system plays a…