Pacific Electric Hollywood car no. 5153 crosses Fountain Avenue in West Hollywood in January 1952.

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A morning rush hour train rolls across the bridge at Venice and La Cienega in this Pacific Electric Western District image from January 1949.

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It’s July 1954 at West Hollywood yard. New GM buses (right) are ready to take over the Hollywood Boulevard line.

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The date is June 10, 1955. Time is running for the Pacific Electric Glendale Line in this image of Toluca Yard. Notice the solid red Hollywood cars next to the main. They are to be used in the movie “While The City Sleeps” – after abandonment.

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Pacific Electric PCC no. 5018 is heading inbound from Burbank at Toluca Yard in this photo probably from 1955. Note the collection of units in the yard adjacent to the main – assembled for use in Fritz Lang’s 1956 noir “While the City Sleeps.”

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A Pacific Electric car rolls down Hollywoood Boulevard in December of 1953. Grauman’s Chinese is showing “Beneath the 12-Mile Reef” in CinemaScope.

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Pacific Electric car no. 5170 rolls southbound for downtown in this Cahuenga Pass action shot from July 1952.

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Pacific Electric Hollywood car no. 5180 heads southbound for Los Angeles through the Cahuenga Pass. The hillside above is the present location of Universal City. The image is dated July 1952.

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Two Pacific Electric Hollywood cars meet at the “crossroads of the Western District” – Hollywood Boulevard and Highland – in this view looking east taken in July of 1952.

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Pacific Electric car no. 5110 rolls along the “Central Business District” of Van Nuys in July 1952.

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