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Phil Balla's avatar

And the gasoline, oil, fossil fuel giants.

And, too, Emily, joined in by Goodyear and other rubber tire companies.

Plus GM, and other car makers who bought up dozens of public streetcar companies beginning 90 years ago in massive campaign by them to gut, kill, replace all street rail with buses, then reduce, kill even those meager public resources.

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TCinLA's avatar

The story of the Red Line here in LA.

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Phil Balla's avatar

Yes, TCinLA.

J. Michael Straczynski wrote, and Clint Eastwood directed "Changeling," a 2008 crime drama set in L.A. and nearby then-named Wineville, now Mira Loma, where murders of children took place in 1928.

I was born in 1947 (Jan. 4 of that year) in Glendale, Los Angeles county, when the Red line connected, united all those far-flung communities -- which figures nicely in that 2008 movie.

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TCinLA's avatar

The Red Line is also a star in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"

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Phil Balla's avatar

Sorry, Kathy, I got mixed up.

In mine to you, thanking you, I used the name of another person, not you.

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