Life Along the Pacific Electric Monrovia-Glendora Line
By Robert L. Davis With attention now given to the LA-Pasadena Light Rail line, I thought I’d better write some of my remembrances of the Monrovia line, which shared the Pasadena lines as [...]
Charles Merritt (C. M.) Pierce and the Los Angeles Pacific Balloon Route Excursion
A classic image of Charles Merritt (C. M.) Pierce, famed operator of the Los Angeles Pacific Balloon Route Excursion. This image comes from a broadside donated by Bobby McDearmon to the Mount [...]
Los Angeles Railway Types of Passenger Cars (1932)
Selected scans from the 1932 publication “Los Angeles Railway Types of Passenger Cars” published by LARy and used internally for identification purposes. Numerous images continue [...]
Society of California Archivists Newsletter: From Michael Patris of the Mount Lowe Preservation Society
Most archivists I know have had the pleasure of moving into a space to take over a collection and make it available for use. However, what happens when the collection evolves from a hobby and [...]