LARY Cars at Georgia Street: Stop everything and run for cover!
By Ralph Cantos This remarkable photo was taken at dusk on February 25, 1942. It was one of the first air raid tests in the Los Angeles area. Just two days before, the Richfield Ellwood oil [...]
LARY S car at 3rd & New Hampshire: How the hell did this guy get a drivers license?
By Ralph Cantos This amusing photo, taken about 1935 at 3rd Street and New Hampshire, shows an eastbound Los Angeles Railway S Line car stopped by an “obstruction” on the tracks [...]
LARY 634: Any port in a storm
By Ralph Cantos This remarkable photo taken at Larchmont and Melrose shows Los Angeles Railway car no. 634 being used as a mobile recruiting station on rails. As the saying goes, “desperate [...]
LARY 3055 on 5th Street
By Ralph Cantos While color photographs of LA’s PCCs during their service on the LATL and LAMTA are plentiful, color photos of them in service under the LARY banner are rare. This beautiful [...]
LAMTA 3146 at the Ponet Square Hotel, March 1963
By Steve Crise As the end of the line grew closer for the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority’s streetcars, many fans rushed to the streets to photograph the last days of electric transit [...]