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Title
Ceremony inaugurating L.A.'s trackless trolley
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1947
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Before a group of officials of the Los Angeles Transit Lines, Mayor Bowron and Actress Penny Edwards are shown cutting the blue ribbon in a ceremony inaugurating Los Angeles' trackless trolley service. The first trolley went out for a half-hour tour, others will be in service tomorrow.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00028898
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 5410.
CARL0000034712
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/8273
Subject
Bowron, Fletcher,--1887-1968
Edwards, Penny
Los Angeles Transit Lines
Street-railroads--California--Los Angeles
Trolley buses--California--Los Angeles
Mayors--California--Los Angeles
Actresses--United States
Transportation--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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