Find of the day comes from Atwater Village Newbie, who posted this brilliant, full-color pic from the final days of the original rapid transit subway in Los Angeles.
Newbie writes:
THIS BIT OF HISTORY comes from photographer Alan Weeks, snapped more than 50 years ago during the waning moments of Red Car rail service at the Subway Terminal Building (now the fancy Metro 417 apartments), 4th and Hill Streets in downtown Los Angeles.
Note the sign on the right pointing to boarding lanes for Edendale (now Echo Park, Silver Lake), Atwater (now Atwater Village), Glendale, North Glendale and Burbank.
The sign at left announces the final day of the Los Angeles-Glendale-Burbank Red Car: June 19, 1955.
Newbie found the pic via the Metro Transportation Library and Archive Collection.
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