The Last A Car
It’s the final A Line car at 7th and Hill Streets, 4AM on June 30, 1946. And the gang is definitely all here: L. to R. Ray Younghans, Jack Ferrier, Sawdust O’Reilly (L.T. Gotchy) Wayne Melching, Ralphs Shears, Phil Goldman, Jim Spencer, Robert Slocom, Carl Blaubach, Fred Hust, Jack Hedden, Chard Walker, and motorman D.F. Hutton.
Roy Finley Photo, Pacific Railroad Society Collection
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A circa 1913 photo of streetcar lines intersecting by the store of pioneer crockery/china/glassware merchants Vollmer-Jantzen Company. The address they gave in that era was “Hill and 7th”. A photo of their interior is in Crockery and Glass journal, shown on-line and dated as c.1875 (??). Link: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Panoramic_view_of_Los_Angeles,_looking_east_from_6th_Street_and_Hill_Street,_showing_building_tops_and_new_construction,_ca.1913_(CHS-5830).jpg
The actual story of Vollmer-Jantzen on page 49 (meaning the 1875 date for the interior photo is incorrect): https://archive.org/details/quarterly2526hist/page/n55
The high address number on 6th would likely explain why they gave 7th as their location. [There is a lot of good information on early Los Angeles firms in this resource.]