Michael Patris Collection

Comic from page 8 of the December 1929 issue of Pacific Electric Magazine. Michael Patris Collection

Pacific Electric Magazine November – December 1949 features a then five-year-old boy named Jerry Jurdan, son of Night Foreman Bill Jurdan of West Hollywood Garage. The blurb in the magazine [...]

Pacific Electric Magazine Volume 16, Numbers 6 and 7 combined in a November – December issue for 1931. Different with this issue is the green ink for Christmas. D. W. Pontius gives the [...]

Pacific Electric Magazine Volume 14, Number 8 from January 10, 1930, depicts a New Year’s infant decked out with a PE motorman’s hat while holding a trolley. As the babe breaks [...]

Pacific Electric Magazine Volume 15, Number 7 from December 10, 1930 depicts a dream perhaps many kids had back in the 1930’s; Santa driving a PE trolley whilst being pulled by reindeer [...]

Pacific Electric Magazine from December 10, 1929, Volume 14, Number 7, wishes Merry Christmas to the Pacific Electric Family. Great artwork from their art department showing Santa Claus thinking [...]

The Pacific Electric Magazine was a great way for corporate officials to keep in touch with all employees, particularly during the holidays. This issue, Volume 10, Number 7 dates from December [...]

Among the things the Mount Lowe incline was known for was Macpherson Trestle; so named for design engineer David Joseph Macpherson. Formally educated at Cornell University and formerly employed [...]

A wood-bodied Pacific Electric Railway “Mount Lowe” car sits at the platform at Rubio Canyon while passengers line up for their trip up the incline. Beyond the head of the line is the [...]

Echo Mountain as viewed from the Castle Canyon Trail in 1899, captured by Detroit Publishing photographer William Henry Jackson. This hand tinted image was taken just before the famed Echo [...]