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Title: Wartime gas rationing brought people back to the area's electric trolley lines in record numbers
Date Created and/or Issued: 1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Southern California Edison Photographs and Negatives
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Wartime gas rationing brought people back to the area's electric trolley lines in record numbers. Pacific Electric's Red Cars ran as troop trains, special trains to shipyards, all the while continuing their intensive local passenger service. [COURTESY OF HUNTINGTON LIBRARY] Pg. 193.
Type: image
Format: 289225 Bytes
Extent: Copy negative ; 8x10
Identifier: 11 - 00386
232733
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll2/id/5642
Subject: Street-railroads
World War, 1939-1945
Women
Place: Long Beach (Calif.)
Los Angeles County (Calif.)
Source: Southern California Edison Photographs and Negatives
Iron Men and Copper Wires
Southern California Edison Photographs and Negatives, Huntington Digital Library

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