Heritage and Popular Culture
The 'Pacific Electric Trail', is a 21 mile Rail Trail under development for cyclists and walkers which is being constructed along the former San Bernardino Line. The city Rancho Cucamonga is acting as lead agency with the San Bernardino Associated Governments (SANBAG) and surrounding cities. The first sections were completed in 2006 and further sections in 2009. When completed the trail will run from Claremont to Rialto and also connect to a 6.9-mile rail trail project being planned from Claremont to San Dimas. On San Bernardino's Electric Av., a grassroots group wants to develop a linear greenbelt heritage park on the Arrowhead Springs Pacific Electric right of way between Hillside Elementary School & 40th St.
The 1988 movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit is loosely modeled on the alleged conspiracy to dismantle the streetcar lines in Los Angeles.
In The Simpsons episode titled "Postcards from the Wedge" that aired March 14, 2010 on Fox, the film shown at the beginning of the episode is based on GM's promo films from the 1950s; in addition, the cars from the abandoned Springfield Subway are modeled after the PE cars.
A transportation attraction based on the Pacific Electric Railway, the Red Car Trolley, is present at Disney California Adventure at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim. The attraction features replicas of Pacific Electric Railway rolling stock and is already the first attraction in the park to provide transportation. Construction began on January 4, 2010.
Streetcars of the Pacific Electric Railway are featured as atmospheric elements in L.A. Noire.
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Famous quotes containing the words heritage, popular and/or culture:
“The heritage of the American Revolution is forgotten, and the American government, for better and for worse, has entered into the heritage of Europe as though it were its patrimony—unaware, alas, of the fact that Europe’s declining power was preceded and accompanied by political bankruptcy, the bankruptcy of the nation-state and its concept of sovereignty.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)
“Fifty million Frenchmen can’t be wrong.”
—Anonymous. Popular saying.
Dating from World War I—when it was used by U.S. soldiers—or before, the saying was associated with nightclub hostess Texas Quinan in the 1920s. It was the title of a song recorded by Sophie Tucker in 1927, and of a Cole Porter musical in 1929.
“A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net pulls and is pulled by the others, thus perpetually changing the configuration of the whole. If the cultural element called morals takes on a new shape, we must ask what other strings have pulled it out of line. It cannot be one solitary string, nor even the strings nearby, for the network is three-dimensional at least.”
—Jacques Barzun (b. 1907)