@Sky Six Downtown Long Beach along the shoreline is/was a short drive from our last Westside of Long Beach house. When we did not have cars, we could walk along the "flood control" channel top walkway all the way from our PCH highway entrance to the downtown area pictured. The L.A. River provided us with a sandy beach/wildlife look all the way to the ocean. Hello, After a short city bus ride from our Westside of Long Beach house to the downtown center of the “Red Line Trolley Services,” my mother took us to Los Angeles. The Redline Trolley moved along the long winding tracks from the oceanfront center in Long Beach to the trolley center in downtown Los Angeles. Since she did not drive back then, it was the only way we could visit friends and relatives in the Los Angeles area. The tracks went through downtown Long Beach along the ocean, turned down the American Avenue when we rode the trolley. By the time we were in high school, the street got its final name change to Long Beach Boulevard. The main street in Long Beach that ran for miles to other inland cities. But the tracks followed the barren route behind Bixby Knolls into Compton, Dominguez, Watts and other communities all the way into downtown Los Angeles trolley center. We did not know it then, but we must have gone through the South Central Los Angeles area where those early hot rod guys had their shops during the late 40s and early 50s. Jnaki Currently, the Long Beach city has their “Blue Line” cars zipping on the same tracks into downtown Los Angeles, many miles away…YRMV
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