Los Angeles Transit Lines no. 293 on B Line service pauses at Evergreen and Brooklyn Avenues in this image dated January 31, 1948.
Alan Weeks Photo, Alan Weeks Collection
293 at Evergreen and Brooklyn
449 at Macy and Alameda
Los Angeles Railway car no. 449 pauses for this amazing photo in front of the Kerckhoff-Cuzner Mill & Lumber Company, located at Macy and Alameda Streets in Los Angeles, on June 13, 1937. Check out the terrific US 101 and US 99 shields.
William G. Kerckhoff was a UCLA benefactor who bequeathed money upon his death to build Kerckhoff Hall, one of the more famed buildings on the UCLA campus. Learn more here and here.
Ralph Melching Photo, Pacific Railroad Society Collection
488 on Macy Street
Los Angeles Transit Lines (ex-Los Angeles Railway) car no. 488 rolls down Macy Street on the B Line in this image dated June 26, 1948.
Ralph Cantos Collection
436 at Miller and City Terrace Drive
Looking the other way from the 1235 shot, car #436 nears the end of track at Miller and City Terrace Drive. The date is November 10, 1948.
Andy Payne Photo, Ralph Cantos Collection
1235 on the B Line
Los Angeles Transit Lines car no. 1235 visits the B line a week before abandonment. This was a fan trip. The B line very seldom had H class cars assigned to the line…if ever !
Ralph Cantos Collection
344 at City Terrace
Los Angeles Transit Lines no. 344 rolls through City Terrace in this March 1948 photo.
Ken Douglas Photo
Ralph Cantos Collection
From Ralph Cantos:
A nice shot taken by Ken Douglas in March of 1948. LATL had not put the Trolley Coach wires yet. That started about June of 1948. The B line was abandoned on Dec 5, 1948. I use to sit at the curb at this location for hours on end, watching the motorman change ends.
339 at City Terrace
Los Angeles Railway car no. 339 cruises through City Terrace in this 1943 photo.
Ralph Cantos Collection
289 and Liquor Smokes Soft Drinks Candy
Los Angeles Railway B Line streetcar no. 289 poses in front of a residential liquor store. The destination board reads “B / To 51st St. & Ascot.”
Jack Finn Collection
430 in City Terrace
Los Angeles Transit Lines B Line streetcar no. 430 rolls up a slight grade in City Terrace as a pedestrian stands on the opposite-direction tracks.
Jack Finn Collection
466 Turning
Los Angeles Transit Lines B Line streetcar no. 466 negotiates a left turn at Evergreen and Wabash in the City Terrace area of Los Angeles on an overcast day.
Modified based on comment
Jack Finn Collection
Here is a contemporary view of this location: