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Show us your vehicles
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- Post #680
- Forum: The Display Case
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Indian motorcycles Comeback
I'd take an Indian over a Harley anyday! :D- Professor
- Post #3
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Inventing LA: The Chandler Family Legacy
Yes indeedy, not only did I watch it, but recorded it as well. A most excellent production! You cannot know Los Angeles without knowing the Chandlers. <object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vDDemfx37XU&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param...- Professor
- Post #4
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Vintage Home Appliances Money Out The Window?
I'm all for efficiency (especially in the case of refrigerators), but I'll never give up my '36 Mixmaster or '37 O'Keefe and Merritt stove! Modern stoves just don't cook the way they used to.- Professor
- Post #38
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Me and Orson Welles
lol No kidding, she's my age...c'est la vie, I like Claire Danes no matter how "old" she is! Grrr... ;)- Professor
- Post #6
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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favorite cars of the golden era
Nethercutt Collection It's the damnedest thing, I had posted photos of the Nethercutt (in a separate thread), but must've used the wrong HTML code 'cause now they don't show and I can't fix it. Anyhow, here are some cars for your viewing pleasure... Tucker Delahaye (the most...- Professor
- Post #726
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Me and Orson Welles
Came across this purely by accident, but it looks fascinating. -Dave UK trailer for this story set in the world of theatre of 1937 NYC about a young aspiring actor (Zac Efron) who is thrown into the middle of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre Company on the eve of the opening of Welles' historic...- Professor
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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favorite cars of the golden era
Pierce-Arrow Coincidentally, I saw this car parked last night at Orange and State in Downtown Redlands. My friend actually pointed it out as I was driving by, and when I turned and saw the triple taillamp I knew I was looking at a Pierce-Arrow! So I spun around and parked too to take a look...- Professor
- Post #715
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Britain building new steam locomotives
The "Big Boys", much like Pennsylvania's GG1 electrics, were extraordinary purpose-built power for specific territory. Unfortunately they remain restricted, and unlikely to ever operate again. Not to mention, the "Big Boys" are incapable of consuming any fuel other than bituminous coal.- Professor
- Post #13
- Forum: The Golden Era
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SS Catalina gets scrapped.
Now the King and Queen share the same fate, but remain separated. Here are a couple of memories from the Sacramento River...- Professor
- Post #20
- Forum: The Golden Era
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SS Catalina gets scrapped.
Let's not forget the Delta King in Sacramento, which much like the RMS Queen Mary is now a hotel with its innards missing! Loss of the SS Catalina is another piece of California history gone forever...such a shame.- Professor
- Post #18
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
The Way We Were Saw this film for the first time last night, Turner Classic Movies had a Barbra Streisand evening, and truly enjoyed it. Not only an excellent production, but with characters I could personally identify with. -Dave "Gorgeous goyish guy" meets Jewish radical girl in Sydney...- Professor
- Post #4,503
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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LA in the 1940's
OERM Behind the Rails of Pacific Electric 1001 <object width="873" height="525"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/l_4_GciUzhk&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6&border=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param...- Professor
- Post #58
- Forum: The Golden Era
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LA in the 1940's
Los Angeles Streetcars - The Final Years <object width="660" height="525"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/AAPMvhD62kA&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6&border=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess"...- Professor
- Post #57
- Forum: The Golden Era
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LA in the 1940's
The replica cars in San Pedro are "Five" class suburban cars. The originals were all retired by '38 and today three are preserved at the Orange Empire Railway Museum (there may still be others out there, the bodies were often sold for other uses). In the forties, you would have ridden "Ten"...- Professor
- Post #56
- Forum: The Golden Era
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LA in the 1940's
Los Angeles Transit Lines actually began trolley coach service on three former rail lines in '47, with the first fleet of coaches being a canceled order from another National City Lines property, Oakland's Key System. They ran till '63, when all remaining electric lines were converted to bus...- Professor
- Post #55
- Forum: The Golden Era
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LA in the 1940's
Standard gauge street trackage on Alameda was originally the Southern Pacific mainline! Narrow gauge trackage near Union Station is of course Los Angeles Railway, whereas the Pacific Electric ran on Aliso Street, which disappeared in '50 with construction of the freeway, and subsequent...- Professor
- Post #54
- Forum: The Golden Era
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LA in the 1940's
That was the "Santa Monica Air Line", which actually began as a steam line in 1875! It was electrified by the Los Angeles Pacific in 1908 and absorbed by Pacific Electric in 1911 as part of the "Great Merger" under Southern Pacific control. Passenger service ran till '53, and freight till '87...- Professor
- Post #53
- Forum: The Golden Era
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LA in the 1940's
The myth lives! Truth is, National City Lines only purchased in '45 the Los Angeles Railway "Yellow Car" line from Henry Huntington's estate, renaming it "Los Angeles Transit Lines". Pacific Electric passenger service was sold in '53 to Metropolitan Coach Lines, a local organization closely...- Professor
- Post #52
- Forum: The Golden Era
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LA in the 1940's
The last passenger line, operating under the former MTA, was the Long Beach line, which ceased operation in 1961. Pacific Electric continued operating freight service until 1964, when it was absorbed by parent company Southern Pacific (today's remaining lines are of course now Union Pacific).- Professor
- Post #51
- Forum: The Golden Era
