Los Angeles Metro Blue Line Grand Opening - July 14, 1990

[@BabyxPosh]

I love this 💞

[@mrxman581]

Tom Bradley deserves a lot more credit for establishing the modern metro system in Los Angeles.

[@militantangeleno]

The subway lines were Tom Bradley's idea, the light rail lines were Kenneth Hahn's idea.

[@LDTV22OfficialChannel]

Now we have the regional connector and the Blue Line to Pasadena is finally realized.

[@alabastercomix]

Happy 33rd Birthday blue line! 7/14/23 :)

[@lvazquez733]

It's been now 30 years since the debut of the metro blue line. From LB to LA, and soon from LB to Pomona once the regional connector opens. 😃

[@metrolibrarian]

Excellent historic video. Love it. Thank you Militant Angeleno from the Metro Library and Archive.

[@Bongaboi151]

Just yesterday, the Metro K Line debuted, now Metro Rail serves Inglewood and Westchester.

[@JMMT7022801]

July 14, 1990 was my dad's 46th birthday.

[@jeffpeterson9093]

July 14 1990 was my dad's 17th birthday and in the fictional world spongebobs 4th birthday

[@TheCm900]

wow just five years before i was born.

[@Mat7920H]

It’s been almost 30 years

[@Hotters9060]

This was 2 years before the Los Angeles riots.

[@paulcastillo3911]

I was on the metro blue line day after it open July 15 1990

[@TheFamousRleon]

2010: 20 years 2015: 25 years *2020: 30 years* Hope there’s rare footages of the Blue Line throughout the 1990s.

[@Hotters9060]

It was in 1963 when the last street car ran in Los Angeles. Los Angeles made a huge mistake by dismantling the Pacific Electric Red Cars and the Yellow Cars. In the following years, Los Angeles would suffer congestion and heavy traffic. This is when Los Angeles decided to bring the trains back and as a result the blue and red lines were built.

[@Futbol-z9w]

2021:31 years

[@SuperheroJunior]

@@Futbol-z9w Los Angeles once had the Pacific Electric red cars and the LARy yellow cars but they were dismantled in the 1950's and the 1960's. I can't wait until the new Regional Connector opens next year in 2022!!!

[@metrolibrarian]

2023: 33 years

[@KevinMeno2008]

When Blue Line opened, people were still shocked at the now-famous shocking cliffhanger ending of season 3 of the popular Star Trek Next Generation series. This grand opening had hopes for most people to relieve themselves from the cliffhanger.

[@_thebusphotograher_cali]

Kevin Meno: Since 1990 the Nippon Sharyo Trains served the Blue Line! But today their Retiring because of the New Light Rail Trains

[@Hotters9060]

@@_thebusphotograher_cali I miss the Nippon Sharyo P865 trains. They retired back in 2018.

[@militantangeleno]

@LAOCTransitFan The Staples Center is a block west of where the Militant was standing. Today there is a parking lot in between Staples and the Pico Station, back then it was a post office, which you can see briefly, and is covering what would be the site of Staples & LA Live. Staples Center stood on what used to be the site of the Los Angeles Convention Center's North Hall. It was a smaller convention hall and it was a simple steel structure, so knocking it down wasn't a big deal.

[@MacPr0xnxx0]

wow sooo much more advanced now

[@mariajomerlos]

wow

[@JASANSWIFE]

I was one month old. People look different

[@T128Productions]

Everybody looked different back in the day.

[@CV81823]

Nice video! I can't find a video about the grand opening of the Green Line...

[@Yeppy97]

kinda weird to see that people changed their style and way they look in just 20 years kinda weird considering i was born in like the end of the 90's

[@militantangeleno]

@LAOCTransitFan And on the site of LA Live was a bunch of old stores and apartments.When Staples opened, that land became a flat parking lot for the arena for a number of years, then it was excavated to build LA Live.

[@Hotters9060]

Staples Center opened in 1999 if I am not mistaken.

[@frenkymerlin]

Pass the boring speech and see the train at 6:55. Thumbs up so that other people can see.

[@FernandoGarcia-dg8ml]

Damn $1.10 was better than today $1.75 now each year it's expensive

[@militantangeleno]

+Alanzo DeLuca A 65-cent increase in 25 years is actually pretty good. Consider the price of gas in 1990 -- it was about $1.09 a gallon -- roughly equal to transit fare then, but in 25 years it's gone up to just over $3.00.

[@UPLAJ5]

100

[@Bongaboi151]

Cost of living is a killa dilla.

[@caliswag5337]

Still cheaper than NYC, Philadelphia, D.C and San Francisco

[@prada4meonly]

The Metro should've roared when it appeared from the smoke....lol

[@appleeimac]

It's LRV #100!!!!!!!!!

[@deathsoap]

hahaha rtd lol i remember the rtd= the rough tough and dangerous.

[@militantangeleno]

The Green Line opening just had a simple ceremony at the Imperial/Wilmington station. The Militant was there, but it was kinda too crowded to see anything. It was nowhere near as fancy or dramatic as the Blue Line's opening!

[@militantangeleno]

@metrolibrarian Glad the Metro Library and Archive digs this! Knew you folks would get a kick out of it!

[@Betis91]

I was born the next year! lol!

[@militantangeleno]

Former mayor James Hahn (then City Attorney) WITH BROWN HAIR at 1:03-1:05

[@shirinshirazi]

no fat people..

[@360Sebastian360]

HOMEBOY BUM RUSHED THE VIP TRAIN LOL - 7:57 love that part LOL