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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 [...]

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 [...]

Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority no. 1503 (former Pacific Electric no. 304) suffers an ignoble fate after losing control while descending the viaduct ramp at the 6th and Main Street [...]

Pacific Electric interurbans nos. 1256 and 1252 descend the wooden viaduct at the 6th and Main Street station in downtown Los Angeles in this image taken September 1937. Charles D. Savage Photo [...]

  Pacific Electric interurban no. 461 is pictured alongside her conductor at the 6th and Main Street Terminal in Los Angeles in March 1938. Note the “Out of Service” and [...]

  Metropolitan Coach Lines (ex-Pacific Electric) blimp no. 420 ascends the elevated platform at 6th & Main Street Station from San Pedro. The image is dated July 10, 1954.   [...]

  Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority (ex-Pacific Electric) blimp no. 1515 sits gets ready to head out (note motorman in the porthole) on December 6, 1958.   Alan Weeks Photo, [...]

  Metropolitan Coach Lines (ex-Pacific Electric) car no. 5118 sits idle on a crowded platform at the 6th & Main Street Station. The image is dated January 15, 1958.   Alan Weeks [...]

  Metropolitan Coach Lines (ex-Pacific Electric) blimp no. 413 and car no. 5118 sit idle at the 6th & Main Street station during a labor strike. The image is dated January 15, 1958. [...]

  This July 20, 1963, image captures the dismantling of 6th & Main, the former terminus for Pacific Electric.   Alan Weeks Photo, Alan Weeks Collection