Cars: An L.A. Love Story

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Autos and streetcars share the road at 7th Street and Broadway in downtown Los Angeles in 1934


A price war found motorists filling up with gas for 2 cent a gallon--3 cents tax not included--at Hollywood's largest service station.
Police were eventually called in to maintain order.




Jesse Valadez's 1964 Impala " Gypsy Rose "

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The views are stunning but the city lights have often been overlooked by the countless couples who have parked on one of Mulholland Drive's many "makeout " points


The Arroyo Seco Parkway, later renamed the Pasadena Freeway in 1940



James Dean stands at a gas ststion with his silver Porsche 550 Spyder just hours before his fatal crash.



It seens like surfing and station wagons have always gone together in SoCal's car culture. Guy adams's 1948 Ford Wooyd is photographed at Huntington Beach.

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Mark Meulpolder pops a wheelie at the Oceano Dunes State Recreation Area


George Luna's 1947 Chevrolet Sedan Delivery, christened " Midnight lllusions " took three years to customize for the lowrider show circuit.


Linda Lopez cleans the chrome on the chrome bumper of her 1947 Chevy which she has named 'Golden Dream'



A young couple snuggles behind the wheel of a convertible as they watch a flick at a drive-theater

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One of the legendary Red Cars enters the busy Westside crossroads where Fairfax Avenue intersects with Olympic and San Vicente Boulevards in this 1936 photo



Passengers at 7th Streed and Broadway in downtown Los Angeles await streetcars in this 1943 photo, twenty years later, the last of the classic streetcars lines halted operation.

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Frank- Thank you for posting the Los Angeles Times "spread"
about history of automobiles in the Los Angeles area. It is
too bad that the automobile eventually wiped out the great
mass transportation system in Los Angeles, "The Big Red Cars."

- Chuck Johnston

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chuck

I remember riding the Red Car to Long Beach from L.A, we used to go to the Pike an ride the roller coaster during the summer when we were out of school.
we had lots of fun an met lots of girls, oh to be young again.

Frank