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Cable car street railways in Los Angeles first began operating up Bunker Hill in 1885, with a total of three companies operating in the period through 1902, [2] when the lines were electrified and electric streetcars were introduced largely following the cable car routes.
1916 Ford Model T. An antique car is an automobile that is an antique. Narrower definitions vary based on how old a car must be to qualify. The Antique Automobile Club of America defines an antique car as over 25 years of age. [1] However, the legal definitions for the purpose of antique vehicle registration vary widely.
The museum was originally located within the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, and later moved to a historic department store designed by Welton Becket. Opened in 1962, the building first served as a short-lived U.S. branch of Seibu Department Stores, before operating as an Ohrbach's department store from 1965 to 1986. Six years ...
The company carried many more passengers than the Red Cars, which served a larger and sparser area of Los Angeles. Cars operated on 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) narrow gauge tracks, [2] and shared dual gauge trackage with the 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge Pacific Electric system on Main Street in downtown Los Angeles (directly in front ...
The website expanded into nine more U.S. cities in 2000, four in 2001 and 2002, and 14 in 2003. On August 1, 2004, Craigslist began charging $25 to post job openings on the New York and Los Angeles pages. On the same day, a new section called "Gigs" was added, where low-cost and unpaid jobs can be posted for free.
A vintage car is, in the most general sense, an old automobile, and in the narrower senses of car enthusiasts and collectors, it is a car from the period of 1919 to 1930, Either a "survivor" or one that has been fixed up according to the original manufacturer's instructions. [1]
However, Los Angeles car buff and attorney Robert Gottlieb coined the term "classic car" in his 1951 Motor Trend columns [citation needed], for the cars many people considered white elephants, then languishing on the back rows of used car lots in any city. Today, excluding "associate members," aka wives, the CCCA has only 2,500 members, about ...
Folding tops and side curtains for rumble seats were available for some cars [1] (including the two-door version of the Ford Model A) but never achieved much popularity. Among the last American-built cars with a rumble seat were the 1938 Chevrolet, [ 6 ] the 1939 Ford [ 7 ] and 1939 Dodge [ 8 ] and Plymouth. [ 9 ]