Pacific Electric Scenes
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Keep them coming!
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Robert Gaddie Photo, Robert Gaddie Collection
The gateman's tower at Santa Fe Avenue. Santa Fe Avenue is to the left. At this point, the Pacific Electric crossed the Los Angeles Railway J Line. The date is March 26, 1964.
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I need some good inside shots of Hollywood cars if you have them. Color would make me momentarily almost ecstatic.
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----Wayne----
Back when I was growing up, if you didn't start someth'n, there wouldn't be noth'n.
--Merle Haggard
Back when I was growing up, if you didn't start someth'n, there wouldn't be noth'n.
--Merle Haggard
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----Wayne----
Back when I was growing up, if you didn't start someth'n, there wouldn't be noth'n.
--Merle Haggard
Back when I was growing up, if you didn't start someth'n, there wouldn't be noth'n.
--Merle Haggard
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Different seats, different pattern.
----Wayne----
Back when I was growing up, if you didn't start someth'n, there wouldn't be noth'n.
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My thanks!
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Los Angeles Railway Street Car on Main Street 1927
Pacific Electric shared dual gauge track with the 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) narrow gauge Los Angeles Railway
system on Main Street in downtown Los Angeles. [I do not detect dual gauge track in this image?]
Today, City Hall is still there but all signs of a street car system are gone.
Pacific Electric shared dual gauge track with the 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) narrow gauge Los Angeles Railway
system on Main Street in downtown Los Angeles. [I do not detect dual gauge track in this image?]
Today, City Hall is still there but all signs of a street car system are gone.
----Wayne----
Back when I was growing up, if you didn't start someth'n, there wouldn't be noth'n.
--Merle Haggard
Back when I was growing up, if you didn't start someth'n, there wouldn't be noth'n.
--Merle Haggard
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The AMOCO tower is quite interesting. So are all the pictures.
Wayne,
If you got more, be like Rufus and keep them coming.
Wayne,
If you got more, be like Rufus and keep them coming.
roger
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When we moved to Garden Grove in 1970 the PE Big Red line, Santa Ana to LA branch was still operational. I remember seeing some of them in my area. I think it stopped somewhere around 1976 ? I don't know if they were passengers or hauling freight at that time. We lived just south of Katella a couple of blocks and just east of Rancho Alimitos High school a few blocks.
The PE line ran parallel to Bowles ave. You can pull that area up on google maps using satellite view and you can see the path that it took. Looks like the tracks have all been removed.
Some Info.
http://www.abandonedrails.com/Santa_Ana_Branch
http://www.pacificelectric.org/tag/dona ... n/page/12/
The PE line ran parallel to Bowles ave. You can pull that area up on google maps using satellite view and you can see the path that it took. Looks like the tracks have all been removed.
Some Info.
http://www.abandonedrails.com/Santa_Ana_Branch
http://www.pacificelectric.org/tag/dona ... n/page/12/
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Pacific Electric Subway tunnel deep under Los Angeles.
Still there, long forgotten.
And yet for three decades several hundred trolley cars rattled through the 4,325-foot-long tunnel each day. When it opened for service on December 1, 1925, L.A.’s first subway shaved 15 minutes off travel time between downtown and other points like Hollywood and Glendale. Passengers boarded the Red Cars from one of six platforms far below the Subway Terminal Building on Hill Street. The trolleys then headed into the double-tracked tunnel, bursting into the sunshine a mile to the west near the intersection of 2nd Street and Glendale Boulevard.
Relic from the past, sign at LA Subway Platform
What is left of the subway (the foundations of several skyscrapers have forever severed the subway’s path) seems to be somewhat maintained? There are still lights in some parts. Water trickles in from the street above, a sump pump groans to keep it from filling the tunnels. The air is thick with humidity, still and lifeless. It seems to have been well built. Many severe earthquakes over the years have failed to cause any cave-ins.
Still there, long forgotten.
And yet for three decades several hundred trolley cars rattled through the 4,325-foot-long tunnel each day. When it opened for service on December 1, 1925, L.A.’s first subway shaved 15 minutes off travel time between downtown and other points like Hollywood and Glendale. Passengers boarded the Red Cars from one of six platforms far below the Subway Terminal Building on Hill Street. The trolleys then headed into the double-tracked tunnel, bursting into the sunshine a mile to the west near the intersection of 2nd Street and Glendale Boulevard.
Relic from the past, sign at LA Subway Platform
What is left of the subway (the foundations of several skyscrapers have forever severed the subway’s path) seems to be somewhat maintained? There are still lights in some parts. Water trickles in from the street above, a sump pump groans to keep it from filling the tunnels. The air is thick with humidity, still and lifeless. It seems to have been well built. Many severe earthquakes over the years have failed to cause any cave-ins.
----Wayne----
Back when I was growing up, if you didn't start someth'n, there wouldn't be noth'n.
--Merle Haggard
Back when I was growing up, if you didn't start someth'n, there wouldn't be noth'n.
--Merle Haggard
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webenda wrote:It seems to have been well built. Many severe earthquakes over the years have failed to cause any cave-ins.
That was precisely what I was thinking while reading your post.
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1243 at Etiwanda Station, October, 1950
Etiwanda Station today is an abandoned building along the Pacific Electric Bicycle Trail.
Etiwanda Station Satellite View
Etiwanda Station today is an abandoned building along the Pacific Electric Bicycle Trail.
Etiwanda Station Satellite View
----Wayne----
Back when I was growing up, if you didn't start someth'n, there wouldn't be noth'n.
--Merle Haggard
Back when I was growing up, if you didn't start someth'n, there wouldn't be noth'n.
--Merle Haggard
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almost 300 photos here. https://www.flickr.com/photos/metrolibr ... 101374003/
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Thank you Robert.
----Wayne----
Back when I was growing up, if you didn't start someth'n, there wouldn't be noth'n.
--Merle Haggard
Back when I was growing up, if you didn't start someth'n, there wouldn't be noth'n.
--Merle Haggard
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