1427 Lineup on South La Brea
Alan Weeks Photo, Alan Weeks Collection
Los Angeles Transit Lines (ex-Los Angeles Railway) 5 Line streetcars (led by no. 1427) line up for race track service on
Alan Weeks Photo, Alan Weeks Collection
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This street seems way too wide for Arbor Vitae, could this be Prairie Ave??? Let me know if I’m wrong. Thanks
You are correct, it’s La Brea just South of where Market st. merges into it. Arbor Vit. runs East and West and approx. 3 blocks East of this location is Hollywood Park race track. CHEERS!
I tend to agree that this is La Brea Ave. LATL streetcars ran on Hawthorne Blvd in the South Bay. Hawthorne Blvd changes its name to La Brea Ave once it crosses Century Blvd northbound.
It’s South La Brea – just below the old Bob Estes Lincoln Mercury store.
Thanks all of you. I knew Arbor Vitae wasn’t right – it has never been that wide.
Thanks to everyone who commented – we’ve corrected the content accordingly!
the date of this is May 21,1955. The 5-7-8 and 9 lines wewe all abandoned in favor of buses on May 22,1955. That would make this “THE LAST LINE UP”
Is this the line that went from Hawthorne/Imperial to Colorado St. in Eagle Rock? And it was taken out in favor
of buses? UNBELIEVABLE! Here’s more irony, the tracks buried in this exact location were just taken out last
summer.
The 5-line was one of the longer streetcar lines in the US. According to my “streets and trips” app, by auto on today’s road system, it’s about 24 miles. As I recall, one crew could make two round trips in a day’s work. Very few passengers (other than railfans) would journey from end to end.
I read an article about Eagle Rock that mentioned a present-day pub called the 5-line.