Pacific Electric Artifacts

By Charles Wherry Here is another menu from Pacific Electric’s 6th & Main Street restaurant. The same photo as on the breakfast menu returns, this time in red tint. PE might have made the [...]

By Charles Wherry Here are three photos of a breakfast menu from the Pacific Electric Restaurant at 6th and Main Streets in Los Angeles. The date of 12-41 appears in very small print at the lower [...]

A Pacific Electric trolley card advertising excursions to view the United States Navy as it was anchored in Long Beach and San Pedro (undated, possibly 1920s based on art and hand-lettered [...]

The Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society is extremely gratified by the gifting of key rail artifacts from the Gordon Bachlund Collection. These items will be part of the on-display [...]

The Pacific Electric Railway had special ticket books for frequent passengers. Some were for business folks, some for students and some for entire families, such as this one which allowed [...]

Pacific Electric tower signs for Arcadia and Claremont grace the collection of imagery and artifacts at the Pasadena Museum of History event through January 2013: Pacific Electric Then and Now, [...]

The 1893 Golden Spike tie pin given to Thaddeus Lowe by his workers upon the opening of the Mount Lowe Incline Railway, July 4, 1893. This was one of Lowe’s prized possessions and comes via [...]

A group of Mount Lowe artifacts acquired over the year by Vic McVey, including a piece of a railroad tie from either the Alpine Division or One Man and a Mule Railway, a reproduction of the Mount [...]