LATL 1305 and 1391
Los Angeles Transit Lines cars nos. 1305 (H Line service) and 1391 (S Line service) at a crossing at Western Avenue in this undated photo.
Philipott and Baldridge Collection
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Los Angeles Transit Lines cars nos. 1305 (H Line service) and 1391 (S Line service) at a crossing at Western Avenue in this undated photo.
Philipott and Baldridge Collection
The year would be 1947-1948. Roofs of cars are in their original LA Transit Lines white and by the end of the year would have received the tan color to ease maintenance concerns.
Now I want to use “Phone GLadstone 2010” as the title for a noir-era thriller. How ’bout a Communist front vacuum shop and lots of jumping on and off streetcars on two different lines! Might even be able to work in that Phil King Motors angle and maybe a murder up by that dental balcony area, ooooh.
H line stub terminal at Melrose & Western.