AWAITING DESTRUCTION--Old Pacific Electric cars are piled up at a junkyard on Terminal Island, in CA 1956. Parts Terminal Island w/in LA Port and Long Beach Port--used now for parking containers.
In the interwar years and mid-20th C. many US cities made fateful decisions for our climate in abandoning electric street railways for freeways & autos, none more than Los Angeles.
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As many people know (but I'll point it out anyway), the conspiracy between GM, Firestone, and Standard Oil to destroy streetcar systems is what the movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit is all about. One of these Pacific Electric cars is featured toward the beginning of the movie.
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