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| Los Angeles was founded in 1850 but its modern philanthropic history really began at the turn of the century with the establishment of the Pacific Electric Railway in 1901 by Henry Huntington, who ultimately strung together a 1,100-mile light-mil system that connected Los Angeles with outlying cities. When Winston joined the company as a janitor, the company was known as the Pacific Electric Railway Company, which at that time operated the city's network of rail lines and electric streetcars, called Red Cars. passenger service was sold to Metropolitan Coach Lines, a company headed by an opponent of electric railways, and in 1955 the Glendale-Burbank Line was shut down, according to the Electric Railway Historical Association of Southern California. |
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