Steve Crise Photo, Steve Crise Collection
Pacific Electric tower signs for Arcadia and Claremont grace the collection of imagery and artifacts at the Pasadena Museum of History event through January 2013: Pacific Electric Then and Now, presented by Michael Patris and Steve Crise of the Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society and Mount Lowe Preservation Society.
Steve Crise Photo, Steve Crise Collection
Steve Crise Photo, Mount Lowe Preservation Society Collection
The 1893 Golden Spike tie pin given to Thaddeus Lowe by his workers upon the opening of the Mount Lowe Incline Railway, July 4, 1893. This was one of Lowe's prized possessions and comes via the estate of Thaddeus Lowe, Jr., and gifted to the Mount Lowe Preservation Society by Lowe's heirs.
Steve Crise Photo, Mount Lowe Preservation Society Collection
Vic McVey Collection, donated to the Mount Lowe Preservation Society Collection, Steve Crise Photo
A group of Mount Lowe artifacts acquired over the year by Vic McVey, including a piece of a railroad tie from either the Alpine Division or One Man and a Mule Railway, a reproduction of the Mount Lowe Railway / Pacific Electric Railway logo, a sample section of the OM&M Railway narrow gauge track, a railroad spike, a piece of the overhead trolley wire, a square nail and copper wire. This piece will be in the upcoming show at the Pasadena Museum of History, running from August 18th through January 13.
Vic McVey Collection, donated to the Mount Lowe Preservation Society Collection, Steve Crise Photo
Michael Patris Collection
Pacific Electric Railway Sight-Seeing Trolley Trips Brochure circa 1912 (front). This brochure describes the Balloon Route, Triangle and Old Mission Trolley Trips which were $1.00 each for a reserved seat and parlor car service.
Michael Patris Collection
The back of the brochure is dedicated to the Mount Lowe trip with fares from $2.50 when leaving from the 6th and Main PE building.
Michael Patris Collection
The interior panel promotes the Balloon Route Trolley Trip. This trip included visits to Hollywood, National Soldier’s Home, Redondo Beach, Moonstone Beach, Venice of America and free admission to the Camera Obscura at Santa Monica.
Michael Patris Collection
Interior panel for the Triangle Trolley Trip. This trip included stops at the walnut groves of Whittier, oil fields, Santa Ana, sugar factories, Huntington Beach, Seal Beach, Naples, Long Beach, Point Fermin, San Pedro and Aviation Field in Dominguez Hills, home of several national air meets beginning in 1910.
Michael Patris Collection
Interior panel for the Old Mission Trolley Trip. This trip included stops at the San Gabriel Mission, Alhambra, Pasadena, Glendora, Monrovia, Oneonta, Busch Gardens, South Pasadena, and free admission to Cawston Ostrich Farm. Michael Patris Collection.
Michael Patris Collection
Interior panel route map.
Michael Patris Collection
Cliffton by the Sea (Redondo Beach) special excursion ticket circa 1914, provided by the Campbell-Bentley Company, exclusive real estate selling agents. Special cars left the rear of the PE station at 6th and Main Streets for this special tour to see subdivided lots for sale at the ocean front community touted as “Newport of the West” making reference to Newport, Rhode Island. As a partial result of the Great Merger of 1911 the PE had extended a line down Catalina Avenue in what we now know as the Hollywood Riviera. Henry Huntington helped push this real estate project by having a Mediterranean style seaside cottage of his own built on the corner of Avenue B and the Esplanade in 1906, by none other than renowned architect Myron Hunt, who had built numerous homes in the Pasadena area. Another prominent Pasadenan interested in the area projects was Reverend Dr. Robert J. Burdette and his wife Clara, who purchased three of these lots to build their own beach house down the street at 1600 S. Esplanade. Efforts to develop this area were lackluster until the 1920’s. Measures 5” by 3” and on the reverse has spaces for the name of the real estate agent, guest, and the guest’s address and telephone numbers, which, on this card, have been left blank.
Michael Patris Collection
