PERYHS Archives

By Ralph Cantos From 1953 until 1958, and for endless decades of reruns, Los Angeles City Hall was know to millions of people around the world as “The Daily Planet Building” in the [...]

In this 1906 postcard from the Pacific Railroad Society Collection, we are looking east on Oregon Avenue, which was the original name of Santa Monica Boulevard in this part of Los Angeles, [...]

By Ralph Cantos Several great cities in North America, 27 of them to be exact, had one thing in common: state of the art city rail transportation – the PCC streetcar! Los Angeles was the [...]

From an Acme News Pictures photo from October 24, 1939: Los Angeles, Calif. — Frank Carter, 35, of Torrance, Calif, died as a Pacific Electric train plowed into this new (Packard) sedan and [...]

By Ralph Cantos When the first LAMTA (Many Trolley Abandonments) seized control of LA’s transit operations on March 3, 1958, the first major announcement to affect rail operations was that [...]

By Ralph Cantos In a more recent photo taken of “retired” line car #3758, the former Pacific Electric no. 758 is a true survivor. Long live these remarkable cars. Ralph Cantos Collection

By Ralph Cantos Pacific Electric no. 758 – looking rather tired and beat to HELL. The former PE Hollywood car #758 (St. Louis Car Co. 1928) sits forlorn and most likely, out of service, in [...]

By Ralph Cantos When the City of Los Angeles and the Highway Department ganged up on the Pacific Electric and condemned Aliso Street for Freeway construction, that effectively killed off [...]

By Ralph Cantos This remarkable old photo, taken around 1908-09, shows a Los Angeles Pacific trolley at the end of the single-track Laurel Canyon Line. The camera looks south as one of the two [...]

By Ralph Cantos What a difference 30 years makes. It’s now 1954 and Gardner Junction is in the last months of its life. Three Hollywood cars can be seen in this photo. For reasons lost to [...]