PERYHS Archives

C. C. Pierce Collection, Historical Photographs, Photographer, 1572 W. Pico Street, Los Angeles, negative number 1704. Written on the back reads, “Florence House as Ellington Drug Store, [...]

A former Los Angeles Transit Lines streetcar is craned into position before being placed into the waters off Redondo Beach as an artificial reef in 1956. From Ralph Cantos: After LATL abandoned [...]

From our friend David Thompson comes a tip to catch “Crime Wave,” a 1954 film noir by Alex De Toth Tuesday, March 26, at 945AM Pacific on Turner Classic Movies (TCM). The film [...]

The saga of PE #717 / #5167: PE #5167 is seen here at Watts Car House shortly after its arrival from the Western District in March of 1956. By January of 1955, only about 30 Hollywood cars were [...]

Wonderful Venice Beach station, about 1911, is seen here as a 4 car train of LAP / PE 700s bound for Santa Monica discharges passengers. The train will enter the “Trolley Way” at this [...]

LAMTA no. 2932 is shown here in 1959 at the “bus layover yard” below the 6th & Main elevated tracks. From Ralph Cantos: These buses numbered 2900 to 2934 were very special,as [...]

Los Angeles Transit Lines bus #6339 poses for the camera at Exposition Park in 1990. From Ralph Cantos: It is the last known surviving example of the 300 bus order that NATIONAL CITY LINES / LATL [...]

View of Vineyard Junction, Sears and Roebuck Pico store and the West Blvd Bridge. Cooper Lumber Company, the business located in the lower left hand area of the image, has just suffered a [...]

Pacific Electric car no. 675 waits at a stoplight at the intersection of Hill Street and West First Street, below a classic Foster & Kleiser billboard advertising the Admiral [...]

Pacific Electric car no. 730 rounds the corner at Hill and Venice in this undated photo by Robert T. McVay. Robert T. McVay Photo, Norm Suydam Collection