Los Angeles Transit

Company History: The LARY was assembled by Henry Huntington and opened in 1901 as a 3’6” gauge streetcar line linking downtown Los Angeles with the neighborhoods of Boyle Heights, the Crenshaw District, Echo Park, Exposition Park, Hancock Park, Lincoln Heights, Westlake and Vernon. These were the “yellow cars” of Los Angeles. After the Second World War, the company was sold to National City Lines who was buying up streetcar lines across the country with the goal of converting them to buses. Under NCL ownership, the company was renamed Los Angeles Transit Lines. The last trolley lines were acquired in 1958 by the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority. Buses took over these remaining routes in 1963.

Brief History: The U.S. is a country of 50 states covering a vast swath of North America, with Alaska in the northwest and Hawaii extending the nation’s presence into the Pacific Ocean. Major Atlantic Coast cities are New York, a global finance and culture center, and capital Washington, DC. Midwestern metropolis Chicago is known for influential architecture and on the west coast, Los Angeles' Hollywood is famed for filmmaking.