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AWAITING DESTRUCTION--Old Pacific Electric cars are piled up at a junkyard on Terminal Island, in CA 1956. Parts Terminal Island w/in LA Port and Long Beach Port--used now for parking containers.
In the interwar years and mid-20th C. many US cities made fateful decisions for our climate in abandoning electric street railways for freeways & autos, none more than Los Angeles.
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