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Here’s a wonderful short film by Matthew Arnold-Ladensack entitled “LA 1:87” and featuring the fine HO scale modeling of iconic LA landmarks by 81-year-old Gerald W. Cox. LA // [...]

Here’s a vintage promotional film by Ford Motor Company documenting Los Angeles in the 1920s. Lots of action and a great perspective into how wonderful Los Angeles was as a young city in [...]

Here’s an amazing training video produced probably by the Los Angeles Police Department traffic division, from 1946, showing downtown Los Angeles in the immediate postwar period. LATL PCCs, [...]

Here’s a fascinating silent film rescued and preserved by Archive.org (a great site, go check it out!) showing Los Angeles in the late 1940s. We asked Ralph Cantos, LA traction expert, to [...]

From David Thompson comes this tip on LARy cars seen in a vintage movie on YouTube: The 1932 Barbara Stanwyck movie “Shopworn” has a couple brief scenes of LA Railway cars. At about [...]

In part one, Charley Chase is seen catching Los Angeles Railway car no. 309 along 2nd Avenue in Los Angeles. Skip to 2:40 to view this segment. In part two, skip ahead to 4:34 to view another [...]

Forgotten early talkies comedy star Charley Chase is at his best in this 1931 Hal Roach Studios release “Hasty Marriage.” Scroll ahead to about 7:15 and you’ll see that Charley [...]

Ralph Cantos uncovered this fantastic clip from Harold Lloyd’s 1926 blockbuster, “For Heaven’s Sake,” prominently featuring a Los Angeles Railway doubledecker bus and [...]