Uh-oh! Here’s the shape of things to come: roadway workers get an early start on dismantling Los Angeles’s vast public transportation network by removing the streetcar tracks from the middle of Vermont Avenue in 1948. It wasn’t until I looked at Vermont Ave on a map that I realized that it’s one of longest running north/south streets in the whole Los Angeles County—from Los Feliz to Long Beach. That’s over 23 miles. No wonder it had a streetcar running down it.