Ralph Cantos Collection

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Los Angeles Railway cars make their way up and down Broadway in this hand-tinted postcard from 1934. From Ralph Cantos: Nothing says BIG CITY like streetcars on rolling up and down the [...]

Hollywood Boulevard was another great subject of postcards. Unmodernized PE “Hollywood” cars roll along “The Boulevard” in this 1934 hand-tinted view. From Ralph Cantos: [...]

Another Post Card of a Modern City: Los Angeles 1904. LARY streetcars shoulder their way along congested Spring Street near 5th. The roof sign on the car in the foreground reads “WASHINGTON [...]

The Los Angeles Railway’s Division 4, also referred to as “Georgia Street Car House”, is quiet on this Sunday afternoon in 1934. This is the south yard, the larger of the two [...]