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Vintage Himmel: Trolley folly

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Video Report By Larry Himmel, Reporter - bio | email

SAN DIEGO (CBS 8) - Do you know where you were on August 29, 1995?

Larry Himmel remembers where he was,  and what he was doing 16 years ago today.

In this Vintage Himmel video, he looks back on the opening of the Santee extention of the Orange Line trolley in 1995.

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