January 2, 2012 - Downtown L.A. to Atwater Village

A bus and car had tried to occupy the same space at 3rd and Figueroa

This walk was an attempt to follow the Pacific Electric Edendale line as closely as possible

Then (August 2002) and now

Toluca Substation as a historic building

The Red Car in 1951 and the 92 bus today

From the Alan Weeks Collection at www.pacificelectric.org

At Park Avenue, Hollywood and San Fernando Valley cars turned left on their way to Sunset Blvd, while Edendale and Glendale-Burbank cars continued north on private right-of-way in the median of Glendale Blvd.

The Corralitas Red Car Property. Thanks to Geoff Nicholson for pointing this out. I had no idea this was here. An undeveloped, publicly-accessible section of old Pacific Electric private right-of-way.

Concrete footings of the bridge across Fletcher Drive

Then and now. A Red Car crosses the bridge over Fletcher Drive sometime in the early fifties. There's now a building in the spot where that picture was taken, so here are a couple of pictures from either side of that point.

The north side of Fletcher Drive

This must have been where the station was

Ordinary people used to climb stairs like this every day to get where they were going

Remains of the bridge where the PE tracks crossed the L.A. River on the way to Glendale

Google Earth fly-over