Alan Weeks Collection

By Alan Weeks Well we come to the end of our Nostalgia trip. Pictures 144-4 and 144-5 there are no before and after photos. They are the Northern end of the old 4 track PERY Soto St. Viaduct over [...]

By Alan Weeks Just think of the amazing changes we would see if we could come back in 100 years. These changes are constantly going on around us but slow enough that we don’t notice. It is [...]

By Alan Weeks Mike Patris and Steve Crise published a book of their PERY archive photos, before and after. I was really impressed with their work. I decided to try to do the same thing they did [...]

Check out what it was like to work for the Los Angeles Transit Lines in March of 1947 with this employee magazine from the archive of Alan Weeks. Click here to download Alan Weeks Collection

Pacific Electric interurban no. 1100 poses at Shamrock Avenue in Monrovia in this undated image by Alan Weeks. Alan Weeks Photo, Alan Weeks Collection

When I was fifteen I hiked up this abandoned railway with two friends. Took my trusty old Box Camera. Then again my father and I hiked it in 1949. The pictures are not that great but the historic [...]

Los Angeles Transit Lines (former Los Angeles Railway) car no. 604 with “Townsend Ave / Eagle Rock” sign pauses on the 5 Line at Colorado Boulevard and Townsend Avenue on December 22, [...]

Los Angeles Transit Lines car no. 950 on the 5 Line catches amazing light in this image taken November 1, 1947. The location is Colorado Boulevard and Townsend Avenue. Alan Weeks Photo, Alan [...]

Los Angeles Transit Lines car no. 615 with “Inglewood / Hawthorne” signage rests at the 5 Line terminal in Eagle Rock on September 11, 1948. Alan Weeks Photo, Alan Weeks Collection

Los Angeles Transit Lines car no. 950 on 5 Line service (Eagle Rock) is photographed at Eagle Rock Boulevard and Merton on November 30, 1948. Alan Weeks Photo, Alan Weeks Collection