There's no room available on the 5:22 Pacific Electric Red Car leaving the Subway Terminal Building for Van Nuys. It's the last car of the evening. A man in front reads the Herald Examiner whose headline is "? Rail Strike Begins; ?ation's trains tied up". Overhead advertisements include "Bestform brassiere", "Ex-Lax" and "Police Shok", a show at the Shrine Auditorium. Photo dated: Apr. 8, 1953.
Subway Terminal Building (Los Angeles, Calif.) Pacific Electric Railway Company Electric railroads--California--Los Angeles Local transit--California--Los Angeles Local transit--California--Van Nuys (Los Angeles) Urban transportation--Passenger traffic Hill Street (Los Angeles, Calif.) Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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