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 [...]
By Ralph Cantos The end has come for the San Vicente Viaduct. It was a cold, dark, and drizzly over cast day, when I snapped this photo with my little “Brownie Box Camera” in January [...]
By Ralph Cantos This old, faded photo taken in December 1927 is very unusual and historic. The camera looks in an easterly direction as a 3-car train of Pacific Electric 1100-class suburban cars [...]
The south end of Catalina Avenue at Avenue I in Redondo Beach marked the end of the tracks for the PE Del Rey Line, when this area was called Clifton or Clifton by the Sea. This is also the north [...]
Pacific Electric no. 461 heads north on the Oak Knoll Line with a roller sign reading MOUNT LOWE and a dash sign reading RUBIO CANYON in this January, 1935 image; during the last years of [...]
Pacific Electric streetcar no. 350 heads toward Pasadena along East Mariposa Street near North Raymond Avenue just north of Mountain View Cemetery. This is just east of North Fair Oaks and west [...]
Looking up Santa Rosa Avenue (aka Christmas Tree Lane) in Altadena, Pacific Electric no. 1123 heads into Los Angeles via the Pasadena Short Line along East Mariposa Street in 1938. This is just [...]
Uncovered by Alan Fishel and sent to us by Ralph Cantos comes this clip entitled Vintage film footage of transit in Portland, Oregon, but it also includes a minute or so of color Pacific Electric [...]
By Ralph Cantos When the United States entered World War II, that conflict united this country like nothing before it. Patriotism in the United States reached a high point that would never be [...]
