TONIGHT! "This Was Pacific Electric"

Thursday, November 20 – THIS WAS PACIFIC ELECTRIC - 8 PM
In 1902 Southern California was a collection of small farm towns. It was waiting for something to pull it together. That something was The Pacific Electric. This Was Pacific Electric is the story of the rise and fall of the “The World’s Greatest Electric Railway.” It is a complete history starting in 1872 with L.A.’s first horse car line and continuing through the last Red Car in 1961. The story is told using rare film footage, hundred of photographs, animated maps and extensive interviews. In fact, the PE Red Cars operated along Glendale Boulevard right outside of this facility and today, LARHF has installed a mini-museum open to the public in the Belmont Station Apartments located at the south end of Glendale Blvd. where the PE tracks used to disappear into a subway tunnel leading to the Subway Terminal Building on Hill and 4th Streets. Presented by the Los Angeles Railroad Heritage Foundation. http://www.larhf.org/

Echo Park Film Center
1200 N. Alvarado St.
213-484-8846
(near Sunset and Alvarado, behind the Edendale Library)

Comments

[Bert Green]

That's a great video. I had a DVD of it until I loaned it to someone who did not return it (yet). There's a funny section in the DVD extras where they start to worry about the sanity of one of the guides they interviewed.

[BusTard]

It was indeed a good documentary. I plan on getting my own copy, as it offers some excellent history about how nearly all of the areas of Los Angeles were started by Pacific Electric. Loads of great facts such as 2,700+ scheduled cars ran daily on over 1,000 miles of track throughout and to O.C., San Bernadino, San pedro, Santa Monica and greater L.A.