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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 December 29, 1954 reads "Mrs. Ward Kimball, in driver's seat, and her children, Kelly, 14, Chloe, 8, and John, 13, from left, illustrate fun waiting for children when old hook and ladder outfit takes place today among historic exhibits at Travel Town in Griffith Park. Kimball, Disney executive and leader of famed Fire-House Five Plus Two orchestra, donated apparatus to park."
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Kimball, Ward--Family Women--California--San Fernando Valley Children--California--San Fernando Valley Fire engines--California--San Fernando Valley Automobiles--California--San Fernando Valley Ladders Signs and signboards--California--San Fernando Valley Gifts--California--San Fernando Valley Trees--California--San Fernando Valley Palms--California--San Fernando Valley Gestures San Fernando Valley (Calif.) Valley Times Collection photographs
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