A few evocative screen captures from the excellent
This Was Pacific Electric:
Pacific Electric Building, 2002
A detail
Red Car arriving at the Catalina ferry
Arroyo Seco/Pasadena/Arroyo Seco Freeway
Arroyo Seco/Pasadena/Arroyo Seco Freeway
Hollywood Freeway
Ramona Parkway
Remnants: A Red Car at the great Orange Empire Railway Museum in Perris
In West L.A., foamer extraordinaire Ralph Cantos, featured in the DVD and extras. He's a man who probably
knows more about L.A. rail archeology than anyone. He's way ahead of all of us here.
A few more of the PE remnants Ralph visits:
Trolley-wire support bolt, downtown
Buses now use this old PE shelter in Pasadena
Cantos refers to the freeway that supplanted the PE line to Glendale over these abandoned
trestles as the "Golden Mistake Freeway," such is his fervor for old L.A. rails.
All photos from
This Was Pacific Electric, written and directed by Thom Eberhardt. Sky City Productions, Inc.:
www.skycityproductions.com