Nostalgia & History > LARY film for recruitment

for some Los Angeles 1940's traction nostalgia ..... just seen this on youtube.....

look for


1947 LOS ANGELES RAILWAY TROLLEY MOTORMAN & BUS DRIVER RECRUITING FILM "IT'S A BIG JOB" 17454MD  

Los Angeles Transit Lines 1945.
My favorite!

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Back in the early '80s, I met a couple who had both operated streetcars in Los Angeles. She became a "motorette" during WWII when there was a shortage of men for those jobs. Her husband ended up driving a bus when the streetcars were abandoned until his retirement. She was apparently bumped by a man higher on the seniority roster who was returning from the war, but was offered a job driving a bus. She declined, and as I recall she said: "It was too much like driving a car." She liked the streetcars, but not the buses.