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For further information please call the museum at (310) 548-7777.
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DID YOU KNOW?
Banning, California was named after Phineas Banning and was a stage stop along his stagecoach route east.
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Improbable Gateway: The Los Angeles Transportation Legacy
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Improbable Gateway: The Los Angeles Transportation Legacy is now open to the public, and we invite you to come experience
this exciting new permanent exhibition at The Banning Museum.
Improbable Gateway is a remarkable story of vision, perseverance and the entrepreneurial spirit, and of the people and events that would change Los Angeles forever.
Surrounded by steep, rugged mountains and treacherous desert terrain and boasting only of a muddy tideflat to serve as a harbor, 19-century Los Angeles was
virtually isolated from the rest of the country.
It once seemed improbable that L.A. would be able to end this isolation, much less become an international gateway and center of commerce and influence.
But visionary, pioneering individuals like Phineas Banning knew that it was possible - and that the solution would come in the form of transportation: staging and
freighting lines, railroads and a man-made deep-water harbor.
The exhibition uses a combination of artifacts, photos, models, interactive features and narrative to take visitors on a fascinating journey.
Learn how a shallow muddy harbor became the world-class Port of Los Angeles, what is was like to travel by stagecoach, and how the first railroad in Southern California
came to be. Find out how important Wilmington and the rest of the harbor area really was to the development of Southern California.
And be inspired by how vision and determination can make even the improbable possible!
Improbable Gateway: The Los Angeles Transportation Legacy
Now Open at The Banning Museum
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