Here’s a long-gone scene we don’t see anymore. A horse-drawn carriage awaits the Red Car at the Hotel Redondo in Redondo Beach, which is about half a dozen beaches south of the more famous Santa Monica. That streetcar line was an important way to transport Angelinos from Los Angeles (what we now call “downtown LA”) out to Redondo for a seaside vacation. But they needed to get their traveling trunks and hat boxes from the Red Car to the hotel, hence the horses. I have no date on this photo, but I’m guessing it was taken circa turn of the century?

Dave L says: “The Pacific Electric Railway was an electric interurban line, and that’s not a Pacific Electric car in the photo.”