3077 On Its Way to Chile
Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority PCC 3077 (numbers and MTA emblem painted over) is loaded aboard a freighter that will take it to the far-off country of Chile in January of 1964. Once [...]
50 Years Ago: Last Evening of Operation, March 31, 1963
A moody, somber image by Bruce Ward captures the pathos of the last evening of operation of streetcars in the city of Los Angeles, March 31, 1963, as the Metropolitan Transit Authority (the [...]
Submerged LATL Cars off Redondo Beach in 1958
A 1958 photo of fish swimming through submerged Los Angeles Transit Lines (ex-Los Angeles Railway) car bodies off Redondo Beach. From Ralph Cantos: In 1958, two years after LARY home-built K-4 [...]
In Charles Wherry Collection, Pacific Electric, Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society Collection
Posted William Wherry, Pacific Electric Motorman
William Wherry – known to all as Bill – poses for a photograph taken by his wife in the yard of their first home in South Pasadena, in 1937 or 1938. Wherry Family Photo, Charles [...]
PCC on Brand Boulevard in 1955
A photo postcard from 1955 depicting a Pacific Electric PCC on Brand Boulevard in Glendale. From Ralph Cantos: 955 POST CARD of Beautiful Brand Blvd. GLENDALE, CALIFORNIA: A city. any city, is [...]
342 at Colorado and Sierra Madre
Pacific Electric car no. 342 at Colorado and Sierra Madre. The photographer is looking south and the car is getting ready to go northwest on Colorado. The buildings in the background are Turner [...]
Lake and Colorado inbound via Oak Knoll
Looking northeast from Lake Avenue just south of Colorado Boulevard, car 1135 leads a two car train to downtown Los Angeles via the Oak Knoll line. The building on the right stands on the [...]
Fourth Street from Main Street, looking west circa 1887
C. C. Pierce & Co. Photographers, Los Angeles, Cal., USA, negative # 2863. Written on the back, “Fourth Street from Main, looking west, about 1887. The Farmers and Merchants Bank now [...]
South Pasadena and original Raymond Hotel
E. S. Frost & Son Photographers, Colorado Street, Pasadena, Cal. On the back is stamped C. C. Pierce & Co. Photographers, 313 S. Spring Street, Los Angeles, Cal. Written in pencil is [...]
Early Los Angeles City Hall on Broadway
F. H. Maude Photo #150 depicting City Hall, Los Angeles, Cal. is written on the front of the image, but the back is stamped C. C. Pierce & Co., Photographers, 313 S. Spring Street, Los [...]
