Western District

An unidentified Pacific Electric interurban rumbles through the sleepy town of Playa Del Rey as a classic PE wig-wag tolls on the same street as the Del Rey Market and Del Rey Drugs. The PE [...]

Ralph Melching’s December 24, 1939, image at trackside of the small waterfront community of Playa Del Rey, with the Pacific Electric station to the left and housing development on the [...]

An inbound 800-class interurban car rolls along the shore line of the blue Pacific at an unknown location. It was a place where the line ran behind houses along the beach. Charles D. Savage [...]

By Ralph Cantos When Metropolitan Coach Lines purchased the passenger operations of the Pacific Electric, the sale included several hundred buses from three manufacturers: GM, WHITE, and TWIN [...]

By Ralph Cantos This picture-perfect photo was taken on Brand Boulevard in December of 1954 showing Pacific Electric PCC no. 5028 rolling inbound to the Subway Terminal. PE’s [...]

By Ralph Cantos This beautiful photo of Pacific Electric’s Toluca Yard at the mouth of the Subway Terminal could have been taken anytime between June of 1952 and June 1955. But two [...]

By Ralph Cantos The ever dependable no. 5002 rolls down Brand Boulevard as it approaches waiting passengers on June 10, 1955. In just nine days all this PERFECT street trackage, the beautiful SP [...]

By Ralph Cantos Motorists and pedestrians go about their business on busy Brand Boulevard, oblivious to the historic scene playing out before their very eyes. Pacific Electric PCC no. 5027 leads [...]

Pacific Electric / Metropolitan Coach Lines PCC no. 5002 and motorman pose at North Glendale on April 29, 1955. Four and a half years later, 5002 will be loaded on a flatbed truck along with 5013 [...]

By Ralph Cantos On June 19, 1955, one of the most dastardly deeds ever perpetrated on the traveling public took place in Los Angeles. The management of Metropolitan Coach Lines managed to scuttle [...]