Title: Destinations: How Trolleys and Postcards Helped Create the Southern California Dream, 1898-1950s
Publisher: Gem Guides Book Co
Publication Date: 2008
Language: English
ISBN 10: 097781520X
ISBN 13: 9780977815203
Binding: Paperback
Illustrator: Jim Bunte
Condition: Good

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Travel back in time, to a Southern California that was still wide-open space, where everything and everyone was interconnected by the trolleys of the Pacific Electric Railway. To most, these bygone days are a distant memory, but to postcard collectors, they are as vivid and vibrant as the day these colorful icons of another time were printed. Learn how trolleys and postcard publishers helped real estate developers transform Southern California from a sleepy, agricultural backwater into a bustling metropolis of the 21st century. DESTINATIONS by Roger L. Titus and Jim Bunte is an entertaining journey through the Southland's colorful history, illustrated with hundreds of vintage postcards and rare Pacific Electric Railway memorabilia. The trolleys of the Pacific Electric may be gone, but their influence continues to this very day.

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ROGER L. TITUS is a Southern California native and Pacific Electric Railway historian, thanks to the influence of his father Robert, who took Roger on PE rides as the system was abandoning its network in the 1950s. Roger is also a well-known deltiologist (postcard collector) and a retired State of California Park Ranger Peace Officer, whose last assignment was the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento. Today he is a conductor on the McCloud Railway near Mount Shasta. JIM BUNTE has made a career from the celebration of the vintage. His credits include editing Classic Toy Trains and Collecting Toys Magazines, co-authoring Vintage Toys: Robots & Space Toys, and serving as Vice President of Design and Creative for Lionel, the venerable toy train manufacturer. Today he works with entrepreneurs as a publishing and design consultant, but his favorite activity is editing and designing books like DESTINATIONS. Jim is a native Southern Californian.

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