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Photograph was edited for publication purposes. Travel Town, an outdoor museum in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, was dedicated in 1952. The Southern Pacific Company, was willing to donate an obsolete locomotive to be the first train on exhibit. The Los Angeles City Recreation and Park Department's museum is visited each week by hundreds of youngsters and adults who are interested in the development of transportation. The focus of the museum is rail transportation, but other items are on display. Photograph caption dated April 28, 1954 reads "Enthusiastic Travel Town booster is Debbie Chandler, Glendale tot dwarfed here by locomotive wheel. Hard telling which of score of engines and cars caught her eye--maybe the little donkey engine, or the 'Big Red' P.W. car, or the steam calliope." The museum is in Griffith Park.; See images #00121174 through #00121182 for all photos in this series.
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1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
Travel Town (Museum) Girls--California--Los Angeles Transportation museums--California--Los Angeles Museums--California--Los Angeles Locomotives--California--Los Angeles--Wheels Transportation--California--Los Angeles Parks--California--Los Angeles Griffith Park (Los Angeles, Calif.) Valley Times Collection photographs
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