Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority PCC no. 3148 rests on standard gauge trucks at Fairbanks Yard in Long Beach, part of a demonstration tour showing PCCs on the still-popular Long Beach [...]
In this beautiful view taken from a private airplane, the camera looks down on Vernon Yard in the summer of 1964. Twenty-five air-electric PCCs have been removed from Vernon Yard for shipment to [...]
Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority PCC 3077 (numbers and MTA emblem painted over) is loaded aboard a freighter that will take it to the far-off country of Chile in January of 1964. Once [...]
A moody, somber image by Bruce Ward captures the pathos of the last evening of operation of streetcars in the city of Los Angeles, March 31, 1963, as the Metropolitan Transit Authority (the [...]
A 1958 photo of fish swimming through submerged Los Angeles Transit Lines (ex-Los Angeles Railway) car bodies off Redondo Beach. From Ralph Cantos: In 1958, two years after LARY home-built K-4 [...]
C. C. Pierce & Co. Photographers, Los Angeles, Cal., USA, negative # 2863. Written on the back, “Fourth Street from Main, looking west, about 1887. The Farmers and Merchants Bank now [...]
F. H. Maude Photo #150 depicting City Hall, Los Angeles, Cal. is written on the front of the image, but the back is stamped C. C. Pierce & Co., Photographers, 313 S. Spring Street, Los [...]
C. C. Pierce Collection, Historical Photographs, Photographer, 1572 W. Pico Street, Los Angeles, negative number 1704. Written on the back reads, “Florence House as Ellington Drug Store, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
