A vintage street-level view of the Pacific Electric headquarters in downtown Los Angeles.
Mount Lowe Preservation Society Inc. Collection
Pacific Electric Headquarters 3
Pacific Electric Headquarters 2
A vintage view of the Pacific Electric headquarters in downtown Los Angeles.
Mount Lowe Preservation Society Inc. Collection
Pacific Electric Headquarters 1
A 1930s-era view of the Pacific Electric headquarters in downtown Los Angeles.
Mount Lowe Preservation Society Inc. Collection
Broadway Serenade
Pacific Electric interurban no. 1214 stands in the shade of a passenger platform while the Riverside Theater (playing 1939’s “Broadway Serenade” and Disney’s “Ugly Duckling”) looms in the background.
Jack Finn Collection
Tower at the Diamond
A Southern Pacific tower stands at a diamond crossing with the Pacific Electric in the Eastern Division.
Jack Finn Collection
1209 and 1215 in Rialto
Pacific Electric interurbans no. 1209 and no. 1215 meet at a shaded switch in Rialto.
Jack Finn Collection
1214 at the Casa de Anza Hotel
Pacific Electric interurban no. 1214 passes the Casa de Anza Hotel in Riverside on its way back to Los Angeles. The image is dated April 17, 1939.
Alan Weeks Collection
1201 and 1209 Meet
Pacific Electric interurbans no. 1201 and no. 1209 meet at a bucolic location in the Eastern District.
Jack Finn Collection
626 to Sierra Vista
Pacific Electric local no. 626 stops at a station on the Sierra Vista line.
Jack Finn Collection
Four Track Main
Two Pacific Electric streetcars pass one another on PE’s four-track main. Special no. 5084 heads south while no. 728 heads north from Watts.
Jack Finn Collection