Talk:Union Station (Los Angeles)
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Fun/Odd Union Station Facts[edit]
I have a Newspapers.com Plus subscription and I was just reading the 1939-05-04 edition of the LA Times. I'm not much of a writer for articles. I can add a fact here and there, but this deserves it's own paragraph or more, which isn't something I do very well. For this reason, I thought I'd share some of the facts that it listed in case anyone is interested. I have linked to my clippings of the article, but I'm not sure if they're something you can see without a subscription or not. One I did add and source in the article already and that's in 1939, it cost $11,000,000 to build (so really there are two sources but I only did the other one). Here are the other facts:
- They celebrated its opening with a parade.
- It was estimated that 500,000 attended the parade.
- In attendance were a number of railroad presidents, unspecified millionaires, people who owned private rail cars, governors (yes, plural) and mayors and people from "all the 48 states".
- The actual dedication was on the 3rd. It says, "... it was really just the people of america—from all the 48 states—who really drove the spike that nailed down a chunk of history on Alameda St. yesterday noon." (sic)
- People were climbing trees to see.
- The parade route became so clogged with people, it took soldiers from the 63rd Coast Artillery battalion of the US Army to clear it.
- Someone shot at the facade, which caused horses to "veer toward the squealing crowds" and a dog chased "a United States Army cannon expert across the station patio".
- People were fainting from the heat.
That's only a few but the most important. The article is found on pages A1—A2, 6 (image pages 1—2, 8). Links: part 1, part 2 and part 3. There are a lot of other articles for further information in the same edition. I just selected the main article. MagnoliaSouth (talk) 19:41, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
Coast Daylight restoration[edit]
Can someone please add the coast daylight to the list of proposed services? I tried to do it myself, but it didn't work. 192.203.40.252 (talk) 15:04, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
- Anyone? 2600:4041:7B25:C500:1D7E:C12C:80B2:E95A (talk) 04:06, 25 May 2023 (UTC)
Orphaned references in Union Station (Los Angeles)[edit]
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Union Station (Los Angeles)'s orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "July2020":
- From Rancho Cucamonga station: Sharp, Steven (2020-07-07). "High-Speed Train to Las Vegas Takes Another Step Forward". Urbanize LA. Retrieved 2020-07-07.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - From Brightline West: Sharp, Steven (July 7, 2020). "High-Speed Train to Las Vegas Takes Another Step Forward". Urbanize LA. Retrieved July 7, 2020.
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. Feel free to remove this comment after fixing the refs. AnomieBOT⚡ 02:27, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
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