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Sideshow (automobile exhibition) A sideshow in San Jose, 2021. A sideshow (so-called in the San Francisco Bay Area, and a street takeover in the Los Angeles area [1] [2]) is an informal and often illegal demonstration of automotive stunts now often held in vacant lots, and public intersections, originally seen in the East Bay region of the San ...
May 13, 2024 at 4:08 PM. SEATTLE - The streets of Lower Queen Anne transformed into a scene from Fast & Furious Saturday night as drifting cars and roaring engines took over Elliott Avenue. With ...
August 22, 2022 at 7:00 AM. A car drifts around spectators during an early morning street takeover at Compton Boulevard and Atlantic Avenue on Aug. 14. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) Cindy ...
The General Motors streetcar conspiracy refers to the convictions of General Motors (GM) and related companies that were involved in the monopolizing of the sale of buses and supplies to National City Lines (NCL) and subsidiaries, as well as to the allegations that the defendants conspired to own or control transit systems, in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
Read more:Compton — the 'mecca of street takeovers' — vows to take action on illegal car shows. In recent years, street takeovers have become a weekly occurrence in neighborhoods across Los ...
A streetcar turning onto Auburn Avenue from Jackson Street, approaching the King Historic District stop, in 2017. The Atlanta Streetcar (also known as the Downtown Loop) is a streetcar line in Atlanta, Georgia. Testing on the line began in summer 2014 with passenger service beginning as scheduled on December 30, 2014.
March 20, 2024 at 1:54 AM. PERTH AMBOY – A Plainfield man has been arrested and a vehicle seized following the Sunday evening street takeover at the heavily traveled intersection of Smith Street ...
North America's first streetcar lines opened in 1832 from downtown New York City to Harlem by the New York and Harlem Railroad, in 1834 in New Orleans, and in 1849 in Toronto along the Williams Omnibus Bus Line . These streetcars used horses and sometimes mules. Mules were thought to give more hours per day of useful transit service than horses ...