Pacific Electric tower signs for Arcadia and Claremont grace the collection of imagery and artifacts at the Pasadena Museum of History event through January 2013: Pacific Electric Then and Now, [...]
Pacific Electric no. 1299 rolls past Claremont Tower on a Railroad Boosters tour held June 2, 1951. Ralph E. Melching Photo, Pacific Railroad Society Museum Collection
Pacific Electric car no. 1299 rolls down what appears to be Euclid Avenue in Upland in 1951 in this stunning image originally taken by Robert T. McVay. Robert T. McVay Photo, Norm Suydam Collection
By Robert L. Davis With attention now given to the LA-Pasadena Light Rail line, I thought I’d better write some of my remembrances of the Monrovia line, which shared the Pasadena lines as [...]
A classic image of Charles Merritt (C. M.) Pierce, famed operator of the Los Angeles Pacific Balloon Route Excursion. This image comes from a broadside donated by Bobby McDearmon to the Mount [...]
Most archivists I know have had the pleasure of moving into a space to take over a collection and make it available for use. However, what happens when the collection evolves from a hobby and [...]
The past comes into view in this blended image of contemporary 6th and Main Streets in Los Angeles with an exact-location match featuring Pacific Electric 1051 from the Jack Finn Collection. [...]
This undated photo by Ernie Leo catches a Pacific Electric freight passing by the Covina Station. Note the signage on the building, stating it is also the office for the Southern Pacific and the [...]
