Originally posted by AThousandYoung
Los Angeles used to have Red Cars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_California_freeways#Origins
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"Toontown" is now known as Highland Park, a lower middle class Chicano neighborhood parallel to the 110 freeway, currently being gentrified by hipsters.
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Yes when I was very young I saw the last of the Red Cars were still operating in downtown Los Angeles, my dad pointed it out to me. Hawthorne Blvd had the overhead wires and tracks going down the middle of the street, it was a big construction job pulling them out from Inglewood down to the foothills of Palos Verdes.
Back then I used to go play on the the Watts Towers and my parents would go to Highland Park, Silver Lake district, etc, with no fears. Los Angeles was a clean, safe, wholesome place to raise a family, like something out of an Ozzie and Harriet episode.
For that matter, so was all of California.
Not so today.
Same can be said for much of America.
I think most Europeans are going to feel the same way pretty soon.