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This circa 1910 brochure measures 3.5″ by 7″ and is a single fold, gifted by the late Vic McVey (McVey Hardware Store, Temple City) as part of his entire collection donated to the [...]

Check out this amazing piece produced by AOL for its “What Remains” web video series on Mount Lowe. Featuring Michael Patris and images from the collection of the Mount Lowe [...]

The Railroad Boosters are captured by photographer Roy Finley in this June 30, 1946, image aboard Los Angeles Railway’s final A car southbound at 7th and Hill – at 4AM. In the image, [...]

Los Angeles Transit Lines (ex-Los Angeles Railway) U Line car no. 304 is captured at 5th and Wall Streets on May 15, 1947, as an LATL crew installs new overhead for the trackless bus systems that [...]

Ed Axenty (right, 1901-1975) at work on installing a fare meter on what appears to be a new PCC unit General Motors bus for the Pacific Electric in this undated photo. Note the unopened [...]

A fantastic crew photo taken at the Pacific Electric Shops (with no. 4511 in the background) from the collection of Tommy Heinrich. His great-granduncle, Ed Axenty, is in the front row, fourth [...]

Late-teens Pacific Electric Railway magazine ad, just donated by long time friend and supporter of the Mount Lowe Preservation Society, Inc., Cyndia Williams, owner of Old Towne Antiques in San [...]

Unknown PE conductor’s cabinet photo from the 1920s, taken by Hartsook Photographers with offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Porterville, Bakersfield, Oakland, Visalia, Sacramento, [...]

An unissued stock certificate from the Los Angeles, Pasadena and Glendale Railway Company. Donated to the Mount Lowe Preservation Society by Rick Wright. Gift of Rick Wright, Mount Lowe [...]

Pacific Electric tower signs for Arcadia and Claremont grace the collection of imagery and artifacts at the Pasadena Museum of History event through January 2013: Pacific Electric Then and Now, [...]