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Wednesday, April 14, 2010

100 Years Before The Gold Line...


W Line, 1920, from Metro Library's Los Angeles Railway Flickr Collection

Long before the Arroyo Seco Parkway became the first of many iconic freeways in the Los Angeles area, the Los Angeles Railway rolled through the Mt. Washington and Highland Park neighborhoods where the Gold Line now runs.