This is an awesome video, produced by our friends in the Los Angeles County Newsroom. The subject: Alan Weeks, 84, a retired Metro employee who was on the last streetcar [continue reading]
Photos by Gerald Hunter, via submission Street work on La Brea in Inglewood in recent days has churned up the old streetcar tracks that once carried the Number 5 line of the Los Angeles Railway from Hawthorne to Eagle Rock. A portion of the route included the future Crenshaw/LAX [continue reading]
A female conductor, called a “conductorette” in the attached vintage caption, poses on Spring Street in downtown L.A. with a special Los Angeles Railway Car decorated for a WW II bond drive. Note the Hall of Records behind on the left and the Hall of Justice on the right. Some [continue reading]
Casual Fridays on the Los Angeles Railway? Not during the 1930s, as shown by an employee gazing at a Division 3 mirror marked with uniform and personal care directives: “Clean Shave, White Colar, Shoes Shined, Pants Cleaned and Pressed.” Metro operators today also have strict uniform requirements that do not [continue reading]
