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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mike2633, post: 10249654, member: 117804&quot;]<i>Source: Classic Refuse Trucks</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>You guys ever go on Classic Refuse Trucks.com great website the owner of that site has put in some major major time.</p><p><br /></p><p>So what was happening was in the 1940s and stuff,there was a mix of private haulers and inconsistent pick up by the city of food waste and stuff.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyhow, as the war broke out the all the private refuse haulers were in the war and garbage collection in Los Angeles which was inconsistent anyhow went by the way side.</p><p><img src="http://imgc.allpostersimages.com/images/P-488-488-90/60/6029/2OXB100Z/posters/john-lowe-burning-his-trash-in-backyard-incinerator-los-angeles.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>So what happened in LA was back yard incinerators.Post World War 2 there was no uniformed city wide garbage collection. Everyone was using back yard incinerators.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now for a while this was okay, but all of a sudden the city fathers were looking around going, huh why is there a bunch smog in the sky and also why is the fire department getting so many fire calls.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, what happened was in the middle 1950s the city fathers gathered together and said it&#039;s time to create there own garbage service. They passed a bond issue to build a couple incinerators and then the city moved on to roll out first garbage collection. The first thing they did was buy 8 different styles of collection trucks and test them. The program was originally a pilot program. But it ended up taking full swing when the city over night banned back yard incinerators. The interesting thing about LA was unlike cities in the mid-west and where ever where the cities grew gradually and the services could adapt and grow with the times. The city of LA had to create garbage pick up for 2 million residents over night. It&#039;s a pretty big job to set up a service like that over night.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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