Jack Finn Collection

Pacific Electric interurban no. 1214 heads southbound for Long Beach in this image captured at 9th and San Pedro Streets in Los Angeles. Note the 1942 Texas license plate in the right foreground. [...]

Four Pacific Electric interurbans – nos. 402, 429, 403, and 311 – idle at the Pacific Electric headquarters building at 6th and Main Streets in downtown Los Angeles, in this dramatic [...]

Pacific Electric interurban no. 1219 (connected to another unit just out of the frame at left) heads south to Long Beach in this image captured at 7th and San Pedro Streets in Los Angeles. Jack [...]

Pacific Electric Railway Post Office no. 1406 is captured at 7th and San Pedro Streets while heading southbound on the Long Beach mail run. Jack Finn Collection

Pacific Electric interurban “blimp” no. 437 heads south for Long Beach in this image captured at 7th and San Pedro Streets in Los Angeles. Jack Finn Collection

Pacific Electric interurban no. 400 at 7th and San Pedro Streets, heading southbound toward Long Beach. The year is 1952. Jack Finn Collection

Here’s a fascinating image shot from the rear of a southbound interurban as northbound Metropolitan Coach Lines (ex-Pacific Electric) no. 318 rolls back toward the PE building downtown. The [...]

Metropolitan Coach Lines (ex-Pacific Electric) interurbans (including no. 315) roll down San Pedro Street (at 8th Street) toward the 6th and Main Station. The year is 1957. Modified by comment C. [...]

United States Maritime Commission (wartime Pacific Electric) no. 381 rolls through the intersection of San Pedro and East 8th Streets. Note the Acme traffic light on the corner, once a common [...]

Pacific Electric interurban no. 1203 bound for Long Beach rolls along San Pedro Street north of 9th Street. The dual-gauge trackage of the PE and Los Angeles Railway is visible in the pavement. [...]