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The History of the CSUN Map Library

When I started at the CSUN Map Library in 2015, I quickly discovered that there was very little organizational memory within the library, a unit whose history could be traced back to the very earliest days of the campus. In 2015 there was only one other staff member, and he had been there only since about 2010 or 2011. So…

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Historical image of LA's Red Car on the Fletcher Street Bridge.

Lost L.A.: The Abandoned Corralitas Streetcar Line

In the triangle-shaped neighborhood between the Silver Lake Reservoir, the Glendale Freeway, and the I-5 Freeway is a little piece of Los Angeles history that is lost, but not forgotten. The Corralitas Trail is a little-know urban hike that follows an abandoned Pacific Electric streetcar line that used to run between downtown Los Angeles and the city of Glendale. Before…

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