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Atwater Village Red Car

Contributed by Wad on March 11th, 2007 at 7:35 pm

[tags]pacific electric, streetcar, los angeles, atwater village[/tags]
In this undated but old photo, a Pacific Electric Streetcar runs above Fletcher Drive in Atwater Village.
In this undated but old photo, a Pacific Electric Streetcar runs above Fletcher Drive in Atwater Village.
Credit: Donald Duke (uploaded by Atwater Village Newbie on Flickr, with Creative Commons license)

Streetcars are so this week. First, Metroblogging LA posted as it’s No. 1 Los Angeles urban legend about the “conspiracy” to dismantle what was once the largest streetcar network in the United States. This topic inspired some discussion here over the weekend.

Now comes along Atwater Village Newbie, a blogger who — in case the concept of the site is too esoteric — is a new resident to the Los Angeles neighborhood, to post a beautiful photograph of a Pacific Electric streetcar passing over Fletcher Drive below. The support posts of that trestle are still visible today.

Metroblogging LA has simulblogged the photo and Miles Think provides a link.

Newbie promises to upload more photos, which come courtesy of the Metro Transportation Library and Archive Collection. Props to both for the lovely pic!

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  1. Wish I could have taken this train, but it was dismantled 12 years before my birth.

    Comment by ScottMercer on March 15th, 2007 at 4:12 pm »Reply« resta suma