Book ID: CBB142779280

Hollywood's trains and trolleys (2019)

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Hollywood's Trains and Trolley's relives the golden age in Los Angeles. The new book from the Los Angeles Railroad Heritage Foundation takes you along the trolley routes that connected the Hollywood studios from Boyle Heights to the Pacific Palisades. For the first time a book zeroes in on the trains and trolley movies produced only within a 30 mile radius of Hollywood. The single exception is the location of Railtown 1987 State Historic Park near Sonora, California. Explore the history of the trains and trolley movies with many never seen before photographs showing every aspect of production and location from the Squaw Man (1913) to Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988). Roughly 75 years of movie making in Hollywood. The tale ends on the rail passenger car's observation platform. Experience how Hollywood exploited the end of the train, staging action scenes and personality publicity on the platform. It's all in one book with a colorful map of the historic and present-day studio locations and routes of the "red" and "yellow" streetcars. (Amazon)

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Review Ted Kornweibel (Fall-Winter 2021) Review of "Hollywood's trains and trolleys". Railroad History (pp. 111-112). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Hofsommer, Don L.
Westwick, Peter J.
Teresa Galvao Dias
Bob Wodnik
James B. Calvert
DeVilbiss, Charles J.
Journals
IEEE Technology and Society Magazine
Bulletin of the Central Electric Railfans Association
Publishers
Central Electric Railfans' Association
University of Minnesota Press
University of Washington Press
Washington State University Press
Butler Books
Morning Sun Books
Concepts
Pictorial works
Railroads
Land transportation
Street-railroads
Motion pictures; cinema; movies
Streetcars
People
Barriger, John W. (John Walker), 1899-1976
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
20th century, early
Places
United States
California (U.S.)
Chicago (Illinois, U.S.)
Oklahoma (U.S.)
Washington (state, U.S.)
Iowa (U.S.)
Institutions
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad Company
McCloud River Railroad Company
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pacific Electric Railway
Southern Pacific Railroad Company
Northwestern Pacific Railroad Company
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