USA in the 70s (47 pics)

#35 L.A. had the largest streetcar system in the world until it was dismantled by oil companies, tire companies, and bus manufactures who wanted to sell buses.

Map of dismantled L.A. Streetcar system:

http://sharemap.org/public/Los
_Angeles_Railway_(Yellow_Cars_
streetcars)#!flash

"The system was sold in 1945 by Huntington's estate to National City Lines, a company that was purchasing transit systems across the country. National City Lines, along with its investors that included Firestone Tire, Standard Oil of California (now Chevron Corporation) and General Motors, were later convicted of conspiring to monopolize the sale of buses and related products to local transit companies controlled by National City Lines and other companies in what became known as the General Motors streetcar conspiracy. " (wikipedia)

You can ride some of the old, restored street cars in San Francisco including one like the one in the picture.

Aside from a few, these are clearly not the '70's

.....60's , more or less.. :01:

Somebody dropped the big box of pictures and got them all mixed up.

Most pics are from the fifties, judging from the cars.