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I had no idea that what is now the Alameda Corridor's route was this old. Where Capital's commodities have been flowing from the Ports to Downtown Los Angeles for over 150 years. Deindustrialization of the region made it so the flows mostly move north. It is now in a trench, scarring the L.A. basin.

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Oct 26, 1869: The Los Angeles & San Pedro Railroad, SoCal's first railway, formally opened #onthisday. LA City Historical Society (2017): www.lacityhistory.org/blog/king-of... #railhistory Opened in 2002, the Alameda Corridor follows this railroad's original route from the #PortofLA -> #DTLA.

lacityhistory.orgThe King of Transportation — Los Angeles City Historical Societyby John E. Fisher, LACHS Board Member Since the beginning of history, the human race has depended on animals — horses, mules, camels and oxen — for long distance transportation across land.  Suc...

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ediciones inéditas 🏴
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"The Alameda Corridor is a wound that cuts both ways. Commodity capital in the form of cheap East Asian goods flows back into the United States through the very South L.A. communities that have been decimated by the decline in industrial productivity attendant to the off-shoring of traditionally..."