Streetcars & Freeways
Getting around. The Red Cars and the interurban network that once had a thousand miles of track, the freeway interchanges, the traffic, the Metro lines built since, and the car as the condition of the place.
Part of Los Angeles
28 moments in this segment.
- - Arcade Depot sold by Wolfskill. Los Angeles Consolidated Electric Railway's Arcade Depot sold by Wolfskill.
- - Horse-drawn streetcar on Main Street (c.1892). Before electrification, a horse-car at the Main Street post office.
- - Broadway looking south from Second Street showing a cable car, Los Angeles, ca.1893-1895…. Los Angeles, 1894. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
- - Cable car on Broadway just north of 2nd Street looking south, Los Angeles, ca.1893-1895. Los Angeles, 1894. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
- - Bridge across the Arroyo Seco at Garvanza, showing the first cable-car to cross it, ca.1…. Photograph of a bridge across the Arroyo Seco at Garvanza, showing the first cable-car to cross it, ca.1895. A group of eighteen people pose around and in front of a cable-car coming across the trestle from Cawston's Ostrich Farm in South Pasadena, approaching the U.S.C. College of Fine Arts in Garvanza.
- - La Grande Station. Los Angeles, 1895. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
- - Los Angeles-1905-Arcade Depot. Los Angeles, 1905. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
- - The Balloon Route trolley (1905). The Pacific Electric "Balloon Route", the streetcar network that first shaped the sprawling region.
- - Laurel Canyon Trolley Bus at Sunset 1908-09. Los Angeles, 1910. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
- - Marvelous Scenic Railway, "Dragon Gorge" at Ocean Park, Cal. (pcard-print-pub-pc-51a). Los Angeles, 1911. From the Wikimedia Commons historical-photo collections.
- - Pacific Electric stops, South Bay (1912). The Red Car map of the South Bay at the network’s height.
- - Stevens Duryea Automobile, Silver Motors 657 South Atlantic Blvd., East Los Angeles.... 1915 Stevens Duryea Automobile, Silver Motors 657 South Atlantic Blvd., East Los Angeles, California.
- - Six Los Angeles Railway weekly passes 1937 - 1940. Six weekly passes for Zone 1 of the Los Angeles Railway.
- - 1939 Pacific Electric Railroad Boosters trip (archive film). A 1939 excursion on the Red Cars, PeriscopeFilm archive.
- - 1940s Pacific Electric - Long Beach line (archive film). The Red Cars running in the 1940s.
- - The Pacific Electric Red Car system (archive footage). Vintage footage of the great interurban network.
- - Tearing out the streetcar tracks (1948). The dismantling of the rail system that the freeways would replace.
- - Angels Flight funicular (1955). The little railway up Bunker Hill, "the shortest railway in the world."
- - Safe driving on Los Angeles freeways (1959). A 1959 educational film on the new freeways, real period footage.
- - The Red Car system - a final ride (historic video). Footage from the last days of the Red Cars.
- - Building the highways, 1960s (Kinolibrary). From the Kinolibrary Archive Film collections. To order the clip clean and high res or to find out more visit Clip ref. BPA93.
- - Bunker Hill razed around Angels Flight (1962). Urban renewal demolishes Victorian Bunker Hill around the funicular.
- - CA 1 I10 FHWA 63 1239. Interstate Route 10, the Santa Monica Freeway, meets the Harbor Freeway in Los Angeles at an interchange designed for extremely heavy traffic movements.
- - KTLA: gas stations & heavy traffic in LA (1973). Los Angeles, 1973.
- - Wilshire Blvd in the 1970s (vintage footage). Los Angeles, 1975.
- - The four-level interchange - 70 years. Los Angeles, 1953.
- - The Santa Monica Freeway, before & after. Los Angeles, 1965.
- - Union Station opens, May 3, 1939. The grand last great rail station of America.
