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Title
Passenger jam
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1946
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
Riders peer into a Pacific Electric Red Car for Hollywood Blvd/Gardner with no hope of boarding the overcrowded train. The crowding is due to a walkout. Photo caption reads: "Angelenos jam Pacific Electric Red Cars. While 'Yellow Line' wheels are silenced by strike, P.E. trains are now packed to capacity". Photo dated: May 8, 1946.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00071923
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 2203.
CARL0000075075
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/27428
Subject
Pacific Electric Railway Company
Electric railroads--California--Los Angeles
Local transit--California--Los Angeles
Local transit--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)
Urban transportation--Passenger traffic
Strikes and lockouts--Electric railroads
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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