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  2. Paul R. Williams - Wikipedia

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    Paul Revere Williams, FAIA (February 18, 1894 – January 23, 1980) was an American architect based in Los Angeles, California.Most of the buildings he designed were in Southern California and included the homes of numerous celebrities, such as Frank Sinatra, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, Lon Chaney, Barbara Stanwyck, and Charles Correll.

  3. Robert R. Blacker House - Wikipedia

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    Blacker was a member of several lumbering firms in Manistee, including R.R. Blacker & Company; Davies, Blacker & Company and the State Lumber Company. Among other interests, he was also president of the Michigan Steamship Company, original owners of the ill-fated SS Eastland. [1] [2] Robert Blacker preceded his wife in death in 1931.

  4. Santa Monica, California - Wikipedia

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    It uses the former Los Angeles region's electric interurban Pacific Electric Railway's right-of-way that ran from the Exposition Park area of Los Angeles to Santa Monica. This route was called the Santa Monica Air Line and provided electric-powered freight and passenger service between Los Angeles and Santa Monica beginning in the 1920s. [114]

  5. Category:Radio personalities from Los Angeles - Wikipedia

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  6. Pacific Electric - Wikipedia

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    The Los Angeles-to-Long Beach passenger rail line served the longest, from July 4, 1902, until April 9, 1961. It was both the first and last interurban passenger line of the former Pacific Electric system. It was replaced by the Motor Coach 36f ("F" representing Freeway Flyer) route.

  7. Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad - Wikipedia

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    Original corporate logo of the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad SPLA&SL railroad workers, early 1900s in the Tintic Mining District, Utah. The Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad (reporting mark SLR) [1] was a rail company in California, Nevada, and Utah in the United States, that completed and operated a railway line between its namesake cities (Salt Lake City, Utah, and Los Angeles ...

  8. Los Angeles and Independence Railroad - Wikipedia

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    In the early 1870s, the new Cerro Gordo in the Owens Valley area of Inyo County, California, were producing a considerable amount of silver.In order for it to be shipped to San Francisco, the bullion was first transported by freight wagons to Los Angeles, loaded onto the Southern Pacific Railroad and transported to Wilmington where it was finally loaded onto steamers headed to San Francisco.

  9. California Southern Railroad - Wikipedia

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    To reach Los Angeles, the Santa Fe leased trackage rights over the Southern Pacific from San Bernardino on November 29, 1885, at $1,200 per mile per year. [20] Naturally, the Santa Fe sought ways to reduce the fees. On November 20, 1886, the Santa Fe incorporated the San Bernardino and Los Angeles Railway to build a rail connection between its ...