PERYHS Archives

A Pacific Electric Hollywood car streaks westbound on Chandler Boulevard in this undated image. Alan Weeks Photo, Alan Weeks Collection

Street resurfacing on 7th Street (just west of Alvarado, near Langer’s Delicatessen-Restaurant) has revealed a stretch of old Los Angeles Railway rail still embedded in the street, more [...]

By Ralph Cantos The events of December 7, 1941 united this country like nothing ever — or since. Patriotism united Americans during World War II to levels that would never be seen again. Feature [...]

By Ralph Cantos Image courtesy Guy Span Hollywood car 736 burst into the morning sun as it approaches 1st & Hill Streets. The third rail was for the LARY / LATL A line that was abandoned on [...]

By Ralph Cantos When the Pacific Electric Railway took delivery of their 30 new Pullman Standard MU PCCs in November of 1940, the Railway was the talk of the transit industry. The whole idea [...]

It’s the final A Line car at 7th and Hill Streets, 4AM on June 30, 1946. And the gang is definitely all here: L. to R. Ray Younghans, Jack Ferrier, Sawdust O’Reilly (L.T. Gotchy) [...]

By Ralph Cantos As the morning sun came up over Southern California on New Years Day, January 2, 1950, the Pacific Electric did what it had done for several decades — that was, to move thousands [...]

Pacific Electric Hollywood car no. 735 rolls through (what else?) West Hollywood near Robertson Boulevard in this circa-1950 image. 735 is headed west and approaching Robertson, with [...]

By Ralph Cantos The September 1951 abandonment of Pacific Electric’s Northern District brought about by freeway construction (in particular, the 10/101/5 interchange in East Los Angeles) [...]

Pacific Electric PCCs nos. 5021 and 5028 are captured on Brand Boulevard at Broadway in Glendale. The cars are headed southbound; the Alex Theater obelisk is seen in the background, but not the [...]