Pacific Electric San Fernando Valley Line train at the North Hollywood station, November 10, 1952
In this slice-of-life photo taken on November 10, 1952, we’re seeing Angelenos getting on and off a Pacific Electric Red Car at North Hollywood. It was on the Southern San Fernando Valley line which went from the San Fernando Mission at the northern end of the valley to the Subway Terminal Building on Hill Street in downtown Los Angeles. The streetcar line is now a busway (a road reserved only for buses that take people to the North Hollywood Metro subway station) and the station is now a Groundwork coffee shop.
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I used to live just a couple blocks from this station in the ’90s, and when I’d pass by it I always thought it looked forlorn and abandoned. I only wish I could have been a kid in the ’50s (when it was safe) and could have ridden a Red Car downtown and from there to the beach. What a dream that’d be.
At least it wasn’t torn down.
It’s a lot more happening these days, with all the apartment blocks going up in NoHo near the Metro station and all that goes along with that sort of development