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7 photographs

A yellow streetcar with a green window band and a trolley pole crosses an intersection in front of a car lot with a large DINTY sign, while a pedestrian walks across the street at left.

A yellow and green streetcar, likely of Los Angeles Transit Lines, runs along a street past a car lot under a DINTY sign. June 1954 · 1st and Vermont, Los Angeles, CA

A yellow streetcar numbered 1399 runs toward the camera on double track in a dirt median, with tall utility poles, palm trees and trimmed hedges along a wide boulevard.

Los Angeles Transit Lines car 1399 on route 5 runs along a median right-of-way, likely near Inglewood Cemetery. January 1955 · Inglewood Cemetery, Los Angeles, CA

A yellow and green streetcar numbered 1307, with its trolley pole raised, stands beside a raised concrete safety island on a wet street under a stormy sky, with palm trees, a HUDSON sign and 1950s cars lining the road behind it.

Streetcar 1307 waits at a safety island on a rain-soaked street lined with palm trees, likely at 48th and Crenshaw Boulevard in Los Angeles. January 1, 1955 · 48th and Crenshaw Bl., Los Angeles, CA

An orange, green and cream streetcar with a trolley pole runs down a sunny street under a web of overhead wires, with a Sinclair Paints billboard, an arcaded market building and small shops, and 1950s cars on the street.

A PCC streetcar, likely of the Los Angeles Transit Lines, signed for East First St. and passing the Plaza Market in Los Angeles. March 1, 1955 · P Line Plaza Market, Los Angeles, CA

A yellow and green streetcar with its trolley pole raised stands on track beside a wide road lined with wooden utility poles and overhead wires, with a sedan parked at right and low buildings in the distance.

Los Angeles Transit Lines streetcar 1291, likely on route 7, at what is likely 118th Street and Broadway in Los Angeles in the early 1950s. March 7, 1955 · 118th and Broadway, Los Angeles, CA

A green and yellow single-ended streetcar with a trolley pole comes down a wide street with crossing tracks, a dense web of overhead wire, storefronts, and 1950s cars and a red pickup truck.

A green and yellow streetcar, likely Los Angeles Transit Lines car 14[?]8, approaches an intersection under heavy overhead wire at what the note gives as Washington and Vermont in Los Angeles. November 15, 1956 · Washington and Vermont, Los Angeles, CA

A yellow and green streetcar numbered 1400, with route 5 on its roof sign, stands on a street under trolley wires. A yellow bus with a white roof is parked beside a two-story drugstore building with Coca-Cola and Rexall signs, and hills rise behind.

Los Angeles Transit Lines streetcar 1400 on Line 5 passes an old-look bus in front of Eagle Rock Drugs in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles. 1958 · 1400 Eagle Rock Blvd