Pacific Electric Ephemera

An original Pacific Electric Railway advertisement, watercolor on board, stating “No traffic hazards or parking problem here,” making the point either the PE bus or the PE trolley is [...]

Special Race Trains are featured in this 1939 – 1940 Pacific Electric Railway timetable, listing round trip fares from 6th and Main Street Station to the track for .55 cents! Cars leave [...]

“Seeing Los Angeles Pullman Automobiles” brochure. Cover cut from a brochure, some paper loss lower right corner. Measures 3” by 5.5” Declares on the bottom of the front “Take the [...]

Seeing Los Angeles ticket, issued by the Seeing California Traffic Bureau at the Pacific Electric Building at 6th and Main. Undated and nothing on the reverse. Measures 4” by 2.25” Mount Lowe [...]

PERY token both front and back images. 13/16” diameter. Nickel plated. Back states for Zone 1 – 2. We have had some questions about this type of token; perhaps our visitors can comment on this [...]

Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority Token. 5/8” diameter. Nickel plated. Mount Lowe Preservation Society Inc. Collection

A Conductor or motorman’s key; this came with a collection of PE / LARY items and we don’t know about it. It is nickel-plated metal and has the number “3” stamped on it. It measures 3.5” long and [...]

A Pacific Electric ink blotter believed to be from 1932, advertising “Special Party Service” listing C. H. Jones, General Agent, the San Bernardino Passenger Department. The blotter [...]

Three scans of a US Maritime Commission Calship Victory Specials Timetable, effective April 30, 1943. The Pacific Electric operated USMC “blimp” service between downtown Los Angeles [...]

Two sides of a United States Maritime Commission ridership token for use by CalShip employees to get between downtown Los Angeles and the CalShip yards at Terminal Island. Pacific Electric [...]