Pacific Electric Glendora Line car no. 738 at Winston Avenue in San Marino. The date is September, 1951.
Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society Collection, Mount Lowe Preservation Society Inc. Collection, Jack Finn Print Collection. Craig Rasmussen Collection
Pacific Electric inbound no. 735 at Rose Station in San Marino, September 1951. Note the restaurant in the background, Woody & Eddy’s, was a longtime favorite of San Gabriel Valley residents.
Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society Collection, Mount Lowe Preservation Society Inc. Collection, Jack Finn Print Collection. Craig Rasmussen Collection
Pacific Electric outbound blimp no. 412 pauses at the San Marino Station, located at Huntington Drive and San Marino Avenue, in 1950.
Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society, Mount Lowe Preservation Society Inc. Collection, Jack Finn Print Collection, Craig Rasmussen Collection
Pacific Electric no. 800 and two other units head southbound on the Oak Knoll line toward Huntington Drive and El Molino Junction in San Marino on January 1, 1938.
Celebrating San Marino’s Centennial.
Craig Rasmussen Collection
January 2, 1950: Pacific Electric no. 702 heads up a three-unit train that’s pulling into San Marino’s El Molino Junction. It’s part of that year’s Rose Parade Special train service to Pasadena.
Celebrating San Marino’s Centennial.
Craig Rasmussen Collection
It’s 1940 and Pacific Electric no. 107 is at San Marino Station (located at Huntington and San Marino Drives). It’s a local car about to make a northbound run on Sierra Madre Boulevard.
Craig Rasmussen Collection
Pacific Electric car no. 740, 711 and another unit head south bound on the Oak Knoll Line approaching Huntington Drive in San Marino. This is part of the New Years Day rush service to and from Pasadena for the Rose Parade. The date is January 1, 1950.
Celebrating San Marino’s Centennial.
Andy M. Payne Photo
Pacific Electric car no. 342 at Colorado and Sierra Madre. The photographer is looking south and the car is getting ready to go northwest on Colorado. The buildings in the background are Turner and Steven’s Mortuary on the left (still there) and the building on the right was a PE ticket office / stop and is now Fedde Fine Furniture.
Possibly Ernie Leo Photo, Craig Rasmussen Collection
Looking northeast from Lake Avenue just south of Colorado Boulevard, car 1135 leads a two car train to downtown Los Angeles via the Oak Knoll line. The building on the right stands on the southeast corner of Lake and Colorado and is the Security First National Bank, later to become Security Pacific National Bank, then, after several years, a building tear-down and a few remodels, now Bank of America. Undated.
Andy Payne Photo, Michael Patris Collection
E. S. Frost & Son Photographers, Colorado Street, Pasadena, Cal. On the back is stamped C. C. Pierce & Co. Photographers, 313 S. Spring Street, Los Angeles, Cal. Written in pencil is negative number 6423 and “South Pasadena, Hotel Raymond on the hill. the railway tracks that curve through the fields belonged to the Los Angeles Terminal Railway.” These tracks parallel the bottom left of the images and make a soft “S” curve toward the Raymond Hotel. In the distance can be seen Mount Wilson and the San Gabriel Mountains, before there was a peak named Mount Lowe or an incline railway.
Michael Patris Collection