Pacific Electric

Wonderful Venice Beach station, about 1911, is seen here as a 4 car train of LAP / PE 700s bound for Santa Monica discharges passengers. The train will enter the “Trolley Way” at this [...]

LAMTA no. 2932 is shown here in 1959 at the “bus layover yard” below the 6th & Main elevated tracks. From Ralph Cantos: These buses numbered 2900 to 2934 were very special,as [...]

View of Vineyard Junction, Sears and Roebuck Pico store and the West Blvd Bridge. Cooper Lumber Company, the business located in the lower left hand area of the image, has just suffered a [...]

Pacific Electric car no. 675 waits at a stoplight at the intersection of Hill Street and West First Street, below a classic Foster & Kleiser billboard advertising the Admiral [...]

Pacific Electric car no. 730 rounds the corner at Hill and Venice in this undated photo by Robert T. McVay. Robert T. McVay Photo, Norm Suydam Collection

Hollywood Boulevard was another great subject of postcards. Unmodernized PE “Hollywood” cars roll along “The Boulevard” in this 1934 hand-tinted view. From Ralph Cantos: [...]

Pacific Electric freight locomotive no. 1627 and its crew member are photographed by Robert T. McVay at Lone Hill, one mile west of San Dimas, on the San Bernardino Line. This image is believed [...]

Pacific Electric no. 1217 and two other cars are captured standing at the Colton Southern Pacific station looking northeast. This image was shot by Robert T. McVay through the window of a [...]

Pacific Electric car (possibly no. 1120) rolls through the 6th & Los Angeles Street intersection that plays host to a classic Greyhound Bus Station (northeast corner of 6th and Los Angeles) [...]

Pacific Electric no. 1036 is on a fan trip (possibly on February 12, 1950, but this image is undated), and is running on the Venice Short Line. This image was captured at Venice Boulevard and [...]