Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of a map of the Los Angeles Pacific Company Electric lines around Los Angeles, including the "Balloon Route", 1910. The map is at center and shows the City of Los Angeles in the upper right corner with the Pacific Ocean in the bottom left. Between is a maze of railroad lines. Written to the left of the image is the phrase "Steam and Electric Launches at Playa del Rey", and to the right is the phrase "Placid Inland Lake with Still-water Bathing and Boating at Playa del Rey". Stops on the lines include, from left to right, top to bottom, Santa Monica, Santa Monica Canon, 26th Street, Brentwood Park, Arcadia Street, Westgate, Soldiers Home, Sawtelle, S.D. Crossing, Wolfskill, High Bridge, Buenos Ayers, County Road, Beverly, Lewis, Sherman, Hacienda Park, Laurel Canon, Gardiner Junction, Hollywood, Centre Street, Vermont and Prospect Ave, Sanborn, elysian Park, 17th Street, Sunset, Arcadia Street, 9th Street, Willoughby, Big Barn, Crescent Junction, Colegrove, Melrose, Ocean Park, Venice, Coeur D'alane, Fredericks, Walgrove, Walnut Glen, Rancho Del Mar, Roseboro, Ocean Park Mtns., Hill Crest, McLaughlin's, Boyers Grove, Coyners, Charnock, Clarksdale Palms, Mammel Dewer Road, Ivy Park, Ivy Road, Hammond, Bennert, Sentous, Whitworth, Mauser, Bonita Meadows, Cienaga, Nadeay Vineyard, Torio, Machado, Gun Club, Alla, Centinella, Michaels, Cypress Grove, Chavez, Olivaria, Bundy, Rentchlers, Ellenda, 1st Palms, Washington Street, Alsace, Inglewood, Playa Del Rey, Pope, Pecks Beach, North Manhattan Beach, Verano Beach Manhattan Beach, Shakespear Beach, Hermosa Beach and Redondo Beach.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegatives, photoprint, b&w 26 x 21 cm., 13 x 10 cm. negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs maps
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