Colorado Street, downtown Pasadena, California. Photo taken from unidentified and undated book. The printed caption above the image reads: "A Pacific Electric car on Colorado Street near Fair Oaks Avenue in Pasadena stops for passengers. The car was on the West Colorado Street-Orange Grove Avenue line in 1905 (Craig Rasmussen Collection)". The street car, numbered 201 and bearing a sign on top "Orange Grove Ave.", is at the center of the photograph, surrounded by pedestrians, horse-drawn vehicles and some automobiles. On the left-hand side, brick buildings, some with awnings and signs, are seen along the street. the sign on the white awning at left reads:"Grand Rapids Furniture House". Immediately behind the trolley, with a striped awning, is the National Bank building. The electric railway rails are clearly seen running the length of the street, as are electric utility poles and wires on the right-hand side of the photograph. Image courtesy of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science Collection at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Trolley buses Electric railroads--Cars Street-railroads Electric railroads--Rails Pacific Electric Railway Company Pasadena (Calif.) Office buildings--California--Pasadena--Photographs Stores & shops--California--Pasadena Stone buildings Awnings Signs and signboards Windows Automobiles Horse-drawn vehicles Electric lines--Poles and towers Streets--California--Pasadena Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
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