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A yellow and cream Pacific Electric PCC streetcar with the number 28 on its front is driving down a busy street lined with 1950s cars and businesses like Sinclair Paints and Downtown Bakery. — Download original ↓

c. 1950 to 1953

A Pacific Electric PCC streetcar, number 28, travels down a Los Angeles street in the early 1950s, surrounded by automobiles and storefronts.

Date: c. 1950 to 1953Estimated from the photograph; no date was written on the print.
Vehicle: PCC streetcar
Operator: Pacific Electric Railway
Equipment: St. Louis Car PCC
Fleet numbers: Pacific Electric Railway 28

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