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To: epicure who wrote (46958)	7/25/1999 2:48:00 AM
From: JF Quinnelly	Respond to of 108807

Oh pulllease, X, the Pacific Electric was as much a land sales office as it was an interurban line. They were interested in getting potential buyers out to the land they owned around Southern California, and they owned a lot of it. Once the land was sold off the interurban had to subsist on its own, and if you'll notice passenger service disappeared everywhere in the late '50s, not just in So Cal. I'm a railroad buff, and I wish it weren't so. But people could afford cars and preferred them to riding the Red Cars. Here's something else you might find interesting: salonmagazine.com