PERYHS Archives

Pacific Electric blimp interurban no. 309 heads southbound as part of Bellflower Line service on San Pedro Street (between 6th and 9th Streets) in Los Angeles in this undated image. Jack Finn [...]

Pacific Electric blimps nos. 314 and 309 head towards Los Angeles on the Bellflower Line. They are crossing Vernon Avenue in this undated image. Jack Finn Collection

Pacific Electric blimp no. 410 rolls through 84th and Nadeu in May 1953. Jack Finn Collection

Pacific Electric’s Toluca Yard looking northward from almost above the Subway Terminal tunnel portal. The Beverly Blvd. and 1st Street viaduct is visible in the background. Jack Finn Collection

By November 1927, this old wooden relic trolley dating from 1897 has outlived its usefulness and is being burned at the Pacific Electric Torrance shops. Stripped of motors, mechanisms, glass, [...]

The inscription on the back of this photographic original reads: Pacific Electric Railway, World’s Greatest Electric Transportation System. 1,000 miles of Trolley Trail to all points of [...]

This group of 180 boys from the Pasadena YMCA will shortly be on their way to the 1924 opening of the movie Iron Horse at the Grauman Hollywood Egyptian Theatre, made possible by this lineup of [...]

Los Angeles Transit Lines (ex-Los Angeles Railway) W Line street car no. 1284 rolls southbound alongside Marmion Way in this December 10, 1954 image. Alan Weeks Photo Alan Weeks Collection

Los Angeles Transit Lines (ex-Los Angeles Railway) W Line streetcar no. 1201 pauses for a passenger at Monte Vista and Avenue 50 in this east-looking image from December 10, 1954. Alan Weeks [...]

Los Angeles Transit Lines (ex-Los Angeles Railway) W Line streetcar no. 1381 looks east at Monte Vista and Avenue 61 on May 21, 1955. Alan Weeks Photo Alan Weeks Collection