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Title
Los Angeles Railway yellow car
Alternative Title
Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1949
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
A full yellow car travels past the mostly demolished Broadway Tunnel, in preparation for the building of the new Hollywood Freeway. The tunnel ran from a short block north of Temple Street to just south of Sunset Blvd. (later Ce´sar Chavez). Dated October 2, 1949.
Type
Image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00068763
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Transportation-Electric cars-Yellow cars
CARL0000074812
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/110243
Subject
Los Angeles Railway
Street-railroads--California--Los Angeles
Electric railroads--Cars--California--Los Angeles
Streets--California--Los Angeles
Lost architecture--California--Los Angeles
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Broadway Tunnel (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Source
Slade, Milton.

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