An Opinion By Stanford M. Horn, San Francisco Examiner; February 20, 2019
The U. S. Census counted 10 million Californians in 1950.
Today the California Department of Finance says there are some 40 million of us.
In the years around 1950, Downtown San Francisco and Downtown Los Angeles were connected with a day- and night-long stream of storied, streamlined trains. The Morning Daylight, the Noon Daylight, the Starlight, the all-Pullman Lark, The Coasters, the San Francisco Passenger, and others sped up and down the 470-mile corridor carrying millions of Californians annually. The fastest trains took less than ten hours.