Pacific Electric

The Pacific Electric Fletcher Avenue Bridge in 1959. From Ralph Cantos: By 1959, the Fletcher Dr Trestle had become a liability ,young kids throwing rocks off the bridge onto passing autos below, [...]

Pacific Electric interurban no. 1217 pauses at Crescent Junction (Fairfax and Santa Monica Blvd.) as part of the Railroad Boosters’ Trip #15 entitled “San Fernando Valley.” The [...]

A shoo-fly is being built on Sunset Boulevard in preparation for a bridge to be built to enable the 110 Freeway to connect with the Pasadena Freeway. A Pacific Electric 100-Class car (most likely [...]

It’s October 1950 and Pacific Electric no. 1243 is stopped at the Etiwanda Station as part of a railfan trip. Robert T. McVay Photo, Norm Suydam Collection

The back cover of the Pacific Electric Magazine for November-December 1949 features this cartoon penned by Jim Berryman entitled “Santa’s Helper” – in this case, American [...]

Comic from page 8 of the December 1929 issue of Pacific Electric Magazine. Michael Patris Collection

Pacific Electric Magazine November – December 1949 features a then five-year-old boy named Jerry Jurdan, son of Night Foreman Bill Jurdan of West Hollywood Garage. The blurb in the magazine [...]

Pacific Electric Magazine Volume 16, Numbers 6 and 7 combined in a November – December issue for 1931. Different with this issue is the green ink for Christmas. D. W. Pontius gives the [...]

Pacific Electric Magazine Volume 14, Number 8 from January 10, 1930, depicts a New Year’s infant decked out with a PE motorman’s hat while holding a trolley. As the babe breaks [...]

Pacific Electric Magazine Volume 15, Number 7 from December 10, 1930 depicts a dream perhaps many kids had back in the 1930’s; Santa driving a PE trolley whilst being pulled by reindeer [...]