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Title
Electric car subway opening
Alternative Title
Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1926
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
The Pacific Electric Subway Terminal Building, completed in 1926 and restored around 1990, is a large twelve-story office building based on 16th-century Italian prototype, designed by Schultze and Weaver. For years, it served as the terminus of a trolley line that connected downtown with Hollywood. The segment of the line near downtown went under Bunker Hill, hence the name "Subway Terminal."
At the Subway Terminal Building, people have gathered for the opening celebration.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00045935
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Transportation-Electric cars-Pacific Electric-L.A.; N-000-140 8x10
CARL0000050332
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/101831
Subject
Subway Terminal Building (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Pacific Electric Railway Company
Electric railroads--Cars--California--Los Angeles
Street-railroads--California--Los Angeles
Subways--California--Los Angeles
Men--California--Los Angeles
Women--California--Los Angeles
Dedications--California--Los Angeles
Group portraits
Portrait photographs
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Time Period
1921-1930

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