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From
toon
town
trolleys
to
freeways
:
So
Cal
transportation
myths
and
reality
,
past
,
present
and
future
Speaker
Volti, Rudi
Contributors
Rosenkranz
,
Adam
(introduction)
Subjects
Transportation
Local transit
Automobiles
Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
General Motors Corporation
Pacific Electric Railway Company
Standard Oil Company
Coverage-Spatial
California
,
Southern
;
Los
Angeles
Basin
(Calif.)
Coverage-Temporal
Early
twentieth
century
;
Twentieth
century
;
Twenty-first
century
Description
In the
popular
mind
,
Southern
California
, with
Los
Angeles
as its
epicenter
,
is
the
region
of the
U.S
.
most
associated
with the
automobile
,
both
its
joys
and its
discontents
. From the
Beach
Boys
paean
to "
fun
,
fun
,
fun
until
her
daddy
takes
the
T-Bird
away
" to
smog
and
freeways
choked
with
gas
guzzling
SUVs
,
L.A
. and its
surrounds
have been the
very
embodiment
of
car
culture
, a
model
for the
rest
of the
country
to
either
emulate
or
avoid
. And
yet
Southern
California
originally
had a
thriving
public
transportation
system
of
trolleys
and
trains
,
whose
imprint
can
still
be
seen
in the
general
urban/suburban
shape
of the
region
.
According
to
legend
, a
giant
cartel
of
General
Motors
,
Firestone
Tire
and
Rubber
, and
Standard
Oil
worked
to
destroy
the
system
(a
legend
simplified
and
retold
in the
novel
and
movie
Who
Killed
Roger
Rabbit?)
. In his
talk
,
Rudi
Volti
,
Professor
of
Sociology
Emeritus
at
Pitzer
College
and
author
of
Cars
and
Culture
: The
Life
Story
of a
Technology
(Westport
,
Connecticut
:
Greenwood
,
2004)
will
discuss
the
truths
and
falsehoods
behind
the
Southland's
love
and
hate
for
-
and
dependence
on
-
cars
and
freeways
, as
well
as
recent
efforts
to
make
Southern
California
less
automobile-dependent
.
Notes
Rosenkranz, Adam (lecture organizer)
Publisher
Claremont Colleges Library
Date
2007-04-05
Language
eng
Source
Original digital video cassette: 60 minute DVM of lecture by Rudi Volti
Collection
Claremont
Discourse
Lectures
-
http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/col/cdl/
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