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Pacific Electric’s 6th & Main Street Station, with an overhead view taken from the building itself, looking eastward at the elevated tracks and arrival / departure platforms. The image [...]

Metropolitan Transit Authority (ex-Pacific Electric) blimps nos. 1521 (bound for San Pedro) and 1527 (bound for Long Beach) idle at 6th and Main in this moody image dated December 7, 1961. Bruce [...]

The Subway Terminal building is located at 417 South Hill Street. When it opened in 1925, the building contained 600 offices and was one of the largest office building in the city. The ground [...]

From Terry Salmans, who discovered this amazing image at the Library of Congress digital image archive, is the headquarters building of the Pacific Electric, circa 1910-1911. Taken by the Detroit [...]

Here’s a never-before-seen image of Los Angeles MTA PCC no. 3148 at the 6th and Main Terminal on February 26, 1960, as part of the MTA’s “operational tests” of potentially [...]

From transit fan CJ Milch comes this image and the following description: It’s obviously at 6th and Main terminal on the northern side of the back elevated structure. Apparently a few [...]

By Ralph Cantos In this image, Pacific Electric Hollywood car no. 5064 departs the 6th & Main Street elevated station for Glendora. Time was running out for the Northern District by this [...]

By Charles Wherry My dad worked for PE and at the time of his untimely death in 1952 was an office supervisor working in the Subway Terminal Building at 4th and Hill Streets in downtown Los [...]

Pacific Electric Hollywood car no. 5064 bound for Arcadia, Monrovia, and Glendora awaits departure from the 6th and Main Street station, its motorman at the ready in this undated photo. Alan [...]

Uncovered by Alan Fishel and sent to us by Ralph Cantos comes this clip entitled Vintage film footage of transit in Portland, Oregon, but it also includes a minute or so of color Pacific Electric [...]