3156 at the Hub Cafe
L. Swanson Photo, Andy Goddard Collection
Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority PCC no. 3156 pauses during R Line service at the Hub Cafe in this image dated April 1962. The exact location the turnaround loop for the R Line at 1st & Vermont Ave.
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L. Swanson Photo
Andy Goddard Collection
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Hi
The location is the turn around loop for the R Line at 1st & Vermont Ave.
– Thanks, Alan! – ed.
The cafe and the tracks are still there… The back lot to the auto repair shop (formally Red’s Alignment) still sports a healthy supply of track. My Granny lived on Whitehouse Place long ago, and took me on the trolley as a babe.
Here’s a good look at some of that track!
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Virgil Jr. High was just across the street (1st) and the Belmont theater was a half block away on Vermont. I had nice lunches at the Hub Cafe while taking piano lessons at the LA Music Conservatory that was in the same building as the Belmont Theater. Great era of the Fifties and early Sixties.
Could this have been in late March 1963? It would have been unusual to have a P-3 on the R line; I was told they normally stayed on the P. One might suspect a fan trip, but there aren’t any railfans in the photo.
This WAS A FAN TRIP operated by the ERHA-SC. The BIG P’s NEVER operated on the R line. The
Thanks for the clarification, Ralph–I guess good photo-line etiquette prevailed.
The P-3s spent their entire lives on the P line , EXCEPT for the last day of service on 3-31-63 when several P-3s were used on the J line so as to free up several more of the P-1 & P-2 air cars to be put into storage first. Those bastards at the “first” LAMTA (Many Trolley AbandonmentS) wanted the all-electrics at the open end of the line of stored PCC’s because they thought the P-3’s would be sold first..