Who was Darius Towsley?
emember Angel’s Flight? Red Cars? Ever wonder how people got around Los Angeles in the early days? Find out tonight. Dorothy Gray, a Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) historian, is the special guest at tonight’s SCV Historical Society meeting. I’m told she makes a great presentation with lots of slides documenting the evolution of L.A.-area transportation from 1875 to the present. The show starts at 7:30 p.m. in the Saugus Train Station on San Fernando Road. * * * I should use this column every so often to answer some of the questions that come my way via cyberspace. I get tons of e-mail through the various Web sites at www.scvleon.com (Old Town Newhall, Mentryville, SCV Republicans, etc.) and I’m afraid I’m not always as prompt as I would like to be in replying. Making it column fodder will force me to deal with it, and besides, you just might find it interesting. Take last month, for example, when two sets of relatives (not mine) on opposite sides of the continent were reun
