Tag Archives: Streetcars
Bridge over Fletcher Drive on Pacific Electric Railway, Los Feliz, circa early 1950s
The Pacific Electric Railway’s famous Red Cars always provided a splash of vivid color around the Angeleno cityscape but even more so when they were 50 feet in the air. Here we’re seeing one cross the bridge over Fletcher Drive … Continue reading
Looking south down Broadway from Fifth Street, Los Angeles, 1905
This photo lets us see what Los Angeles’s Broadway looked like in the first decade of the new century. As we can see, the two main ways of getting around town are horse-and-carriage and the streetcar. The one in the … Continue reading
Undated photo of Oneonta Park Station in South Pasadena, California
When I found this photo Oneonta Park Station, I had trouble locating where Oneonta Park was. Turns out that it was a development in South Pasadena centered where Fair Oaks Ave meets Huntington Drive. It must have been a fairly … Continue reading
The Hermosa observation street car on the Balloon Route near Venice Beach, circa early 1900s
Back around the turn of the century, when (downtown) Los Angeles was waaaay over here and Hollywood and the beaches were waaaay over there, one of the more popular tourist attractions was an all-day trolley trips operated by the Pacific … Continue reading
Temperance Temple of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, 301 N. Broadway at Temple Street, downtown Los Angeles, 1890
In this photograph, we have the Los Angeles headquarters of an organization the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. It was founded in 1874, the stated purpose of creating a “sober and pure world” by abstinence, purity, and evangelical Christianity. Its constitution … Continue reading
Los Angeles Railway yellow car on the “R” line passing MacArthur Park, circa 1940s
Along with the Red Cars criss-crossing Los Angeles’s streetcar network, there were also the Los Angeles Railway Yellow Cars. Their system had 25 lines, designated with numbers and letters. We can see that car #1317 was on the “R” line … Continue reading
Workers remove streetcar tracks from the middle of Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, 1948
Uh-oh! Here’s the shape of things to come: roadway workers get an early start on dismantling Los Angeles’s vast public transportation network by removing the streetcar tracks from the middle of Vermont Avenue in 1948. It wasn’t until I looked … Continue reading
P Line streetcar on First Street crossing Alameda St, downtown Los Angeles, 1918
In this photo, we’re seeing a Los Angeles Railway streetcar on the P Line, which ran along First Street in downtown L.A. (it’s crossing Alameda here) en route to Pico Blvd. This photo was taken in 1918, so that team … Continue reading
View of Crown Ave (now Harvard Blvd), Hollywood, California, circa 1909
I couldn’t find any Crown Ave (or Crown St) on a map of Hollywood so I’m guessing its name was changed sometime later. But from those streetcar tracks running along the bottom, it looks like it ran north of Hollywood … Continue reading
Clune’s Auditorium at 5th and Olive Streets, downtown Los Angeles, 1910
Here we have a photo from 1910 showing a Melrose-Ave-bound streetcar passing by Clune’s Auditorium across from Pershing Square (known as Central Park at the time) in downtown LA. The theater opened on November 7, 1906, amid much fanfare because … Continue reading
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