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Santa Monica Public Library Image Archives.
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Connie Cramer Collection (Santa Monica Toastmistress Club)
Santa Monica the Way It Was, a slide presentation commemorating the City's Centennial Anniversary, 1975.
This is the Long Line which originated at 4th and Broadway in Los Angeles.
The train traveled out Sunset Blvd. to Santa Monica.
Young people used to pick it up on Highland Avenue and take it out to Ocean Park to go dancing. It also ran along Ocean Avenue to Venice.
The Venice Short line ran through the Culver City area.
Ballona Creek backed all the way up to where the Sears Dept. Store is now between Pico and Venice.
It was like a lake in winter.
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