LAMTA MTA_0299 on Flickr.
Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority employee examines buses, circa 1960.
ERHA Special at Monroe & Vermont on Flickr.
ERHA Special. Monroe and Vermont terminal of V line., Photographer: Alan Weeks. January 20, 1963.
Grauman’s Chinese Theatre (MTA_1388) on Flickr.
Sidewalk in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, circa 1958.
Central Ave. at Goodyear Factory on Flickr.
Photographer: Alan Weeks
1963.
S Line streetcar is southbound on Central at the Goodyear tire factory a few blocks north of Florence.
MTA19580910 Long Beach Line Southbound At San Pedro & 7th Sts on Flickr.
Photographer: Alan Weeks
September 10, 1958.
Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority streetcar no.1500 on the Long Beach Line at San Pedro and 7th Street.
023 - MTA 1515 San Pedro Line Main St. Sta. 19581206 AKW on Flickr.
Photographer: Alan Weeks
December 6, 1958.
Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority streetcar no.1515 at the Main Street Station in downtown Los Angeles on the San Pedro line.
Line P At Pico & Rimpau Loop on Flickr.
Phographer: Alan Weeks
circa 193.
Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority streetcars on Line P at the Pico & Rimpau Loop.
LAMTA Grauman’s Chinese Theatre MTA_1384 on Flickr.
circa 1956
Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
034 - MTA Elevated Removal From Wall St. 19640616 AKW on Flickr.
Photographer: Alan Weeks
June 16, 1964
Removal of the elevated rail tracks build by the Pacific Electric Railway Company in downtown Los Angeles.
Rapid Facts on Rapid Transit on Flickr.
A pamphlet, circa 1962, published by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority providing information about the Transit Revenue Bond Gurantee Bill, S.2390. LAMTA planned to use funding made available by the bill to develop the “Backbone Route”, a subway system to connect Century City to El Monte.
More information about LAMTA’s Backbone Route can be found in the February 1962 issue of “Emblem”: libraryarchives.metro.net/DPGTL/employeenews/Emblem_1962_…
This item is from a collection of material donated by former employee Ed Vandeventer in 2011. Finding aid for this collection is at the Online Archive of California: www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c89w0d7c/
