In this circa 1892 photo, we can see that Angelenos got into the holiday spirit by decorating a streetcar from the Los Angeles Consolidated Electric Railway (a predecessor of the Los Angeles Pacific Railroad) for the George Washington birthday holiday. I don’t know if this was a one-off or an annual thing but they sure went all-out. The sign on top of the streetcar says “Pico Heights” which I’d never heard of. Turns out it’s now known as Pico-Union which lays west of downtown between Olympic and the Santa Monica Freeway.
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IIRC, LACERy would be a predecessor of the (city cars )Los Angeles Railway and one of Huntington’s original aquisitions. Los Angeles-Pacific was the primary component used to form the Western District lines of the Pacific Electric interurban system.