Funerary
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A Los Angeles & Pasadena Electric Railway car stands ready in front of Lippincott’s Funeral Parlors (Undertakers, Embalmers, Cremating), draped in funerary bunting. The LA&P was the predecessor line to the Pacific Electric. This is in Pasadena.
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[…] the Hollywood Cemetery, and the National Cemetery via the Santa Monica Air Line in Westwood. This 1890 photo shows a mail trolley that was converted into a funeral car on the Los Angeles & Pasadena […]
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Yes, the scene is in Pasadena. Lippincott’s Funeral Parlor was at 43 W Colorado, so the car is facing east toward Fair Oaks Avenue.
The large building in the background is the Hotel Stevenson, which was at the northeast corner of Colorado & De Lacey.
There are two versions of this image. One shows it as the “Ives & Warren” title above Funeral Parlor. Mr. Hubert Ives is reported to be the man in the center. The car carried a casket (seen through the front windows?) as well as the family & friends on the trip to Mountain View Cemetery (ex-Pasadena Cemetery) in Altadena. [The P&LA became the LA&P in 1897 (running the original South Pasadena interurban route through Garvanza). This photo must follow that date.]