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- ↑ Jack Carleton, "Los Angeles Grew With the Tracks," Los Angeles Times, June 2, 1935, page H-11
- ↑ "The Street Railway History of Los Angeles," Electric Railway Historical Association
- ↑ Ira Berthelot Wood, "The Beginning of Los Angeles," Los Angeles Times, April 10, 1927, page 32
- ↑ Chronological Record of Los Angeles City Officials,1850-1938, compiled under direction of Municipal Reference Library, City Hall, Los Angeles (March 1938, reprinted 1966). "Prepared ... as a report on Project No. SA 3123-5703-6077-8121-9900 conducted under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration."