Hollywood's Trains & Trolleys

Lesser, Josef & Marc Wanamaker

ISBN 10: 0578530155 / ISBN 13: 9780578530154

Published by Los Angeles Railroad Heritage Foundation, Los Angeles, 2019

About this Item

SIGNED without inscription by author Marc Wanamaker on half-title page; a beautiful oversized book on L. A.' s rail transportation; gentle softening to top edge of dust jacket else a tight bright clean unmarked copy in unclipped dust jacket; nearly as new, appears unread; first printing with no later statements; Signed by One Author.

Seller Inventory # 52070

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hollywood's Trains & Trolleys
• Publisher: Los Angeles Railroad Heritage Foundation, Los Angeles
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0578530155
• ISBN 13: 9780578530154
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition; First Printing.
• Condition: Fine+
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Hollywood's Trains and Trolley's relives the golden age in Los Angeles. The new book from the Los Angeles Railroad Heritage Foundation takes you along the trolley routes that connected the Hollywood studios from Boyle Heights to the Pacific Palisades. For the first time a book zeroes in on the trains and trolley movies produced only within a 30 mile radius of Hollywood. The single exception is the location of Railtown 1987 State Historic Park near Sonora, California. Explore the history of the trains and trolley movies with many never seen before photographs showing every aspect of production and location from the Squaw Man (1913) to Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988). Roughly 75 years of movie making in Hollywood. The tale ends on the rail passenger car's observation platform. Experience how Hollywood exploited the end of the train, staging action scenes and personality publicity on the platform. It's all in one book with a colorful map of the historic and present-day studio locations and routes of the "red" and "yellow" streetcars.