During the Great Depression the US WPA hired unemployed writers to write travel guides to various US cities. I have a copy of the book for Los Angeles. What I f

During the Great Depression the US WPA hired unemployed writers to write travel guides to various US cities. I have a copy of the book for Los Angeles. What I found interesting is how the fabled Pacific Electric "red cars" (the streetcar system of Los Angeles and suburbs) were described. While they are often romanticized and used as a prime example of what GM destroyed, the book describing them in the 1930s wasn't that favorable, mentioning how slow and unreliable they were.