Impact Of The Electric Trolley On Los Angeles
While driving through Los Angeles it is difficult to appreciate that several of the streets that Angelinos drive on today were once the main arteries and veins of the city. Streets such as San Vicente Boulevard, Venice Boulevard, and the famous Santa Monica Boulevard are a few that owe their beginnings to the electric trolley. In 1887, the first appearance of electric trolleys mobilized Los Angeles in a way that would not cease. Within several years railways such as the Pasadena and Los Angeles Railway and the Los Angeles Pacific Railway would merge to form the Pasadena & Pacific Railways. Not many would have thought that the fate of those individual street railways erected in Los Angeles in due time would become part a large systematic network.