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Color photo looking down a long, straight street lined with poles and a dense web of overhead wires. A yellow-and-green streetcar comes up the center tracks toward the camera, with 1940s cars around it and a group of people on the corner at left. — Download original ↓

August 1949 · 9th and Hoover, Los Angeles, CA

A yellow-and-green streetcar climbs a long hill on double track past the Sunbury Food Stores building, likely at 9th and Hoover in Los Angeles.

Date: August 1949
Location: 9th and Hoover, Los Angeles, CA
Vehicle: Streetcar

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