1911-04-04 DOWNTOWN ER TROLLEY PCF
The Eagle Rock trolley departs downtown in front of the new Post Office and Federal Building in this postcard sent in 1911. (ERVHS)
Articles
1910 CA OXY MYRON HUNT SITE
Architect Myron Hunt surveys the area where Occidental College would be built. The streetcar line runs straight along the right side of the photograph. Drains channel the water under the road and the tracks from the low-lying area that made travel to downtown by road unreliable. (Occidental College Library Special Collections)
1909-10-24-08 COLO 1611 CA MRS E BECKER OFC 1050.16 LAH
Mrs. E. Becker’s real estate office probably was on Colorado opposite the intersection with the southern part of Townsend Avenue, here in 1909. (Published in the Los Angeles Herald Sunday Magazine)
0856.07 – L.A.T.L. 5 Line Car 1273 Eagle Rock & Merton Last Day 19550521s
On the last day of its run, May 21, 1955, the streetcar passes the Serv-Well Market. The Wong family, who owned the business, also owned a home in Eagle Rock. This was unique due to the systematic exclusion of Asians from housing at the time. (Alan Weeks photograph)
0856.02 L.A.T.L. 5 Line Car 1409 Eagle Rock & Colorado Blvds. 19550126s
The 1409 car poised to depart from the new end of the line in 1955. The bus that would replace the 5 Line is to the right, in front of the Rexall emblazoned Edwards and Wildey Building. To the left of the car is the since demolished Security Bank Building. (Alan Weeks photograph)
0855.20 1948-09-30 L.A.T.L. 5 Line Car 950 Eagle Rock Blvd MERTON AVE AW2e
Stopped at Merton Avenue. The sign probably concerns the tracks on Colorado, which were being removed in 1948. (Alan Weeks photograph)
0855.02 1948-04-17 L.A..T.L. 5 Line Car 611 Turning off of Colorado Blvd. onto Eagle Rock Blvd. AW
This more realistic view captures a streetcar surrounded by car traffic as it turns south on Eagle Rock. (Alan Weeks photograph)
08 F-3084 LA Railway culvert at Yosemite Dr & ER Blvd, same time after hvy shower q1.91 Note chunks of oiled roadway displaced and carried to this point by water 4 pm ews
The railway track passes Yosemite Drive at Eagle Rock in the mid 1920’s. A heavy shower has flooded Yosemite Drive, the natural drainage from the rock stream. Bits of the then oiled roadway are floating in the stream. (LA Public Works Archive)
1928 CA 0595 FM ROCK TFK se
Nothing new. The traffic jam, probably on opening day, clogged both roads from Eagle Rock converging on the bridge across the Eagle Rock stream and headed for the Arroyo Seco. The view is from the top of the Rock looking east. (ERVHS)
1916-01-20 COLO ST BRIDGE ERS
The Sentinel celebrated the completed bridge. As part of the 1914 progress celebration O. J. Root organized an auto parade across the new bridge down to the river through Pasadena, west to Glendale north to Colorado Boulevard and back to Eagle Rock. The focus of transportation began to shift to the automobile. Root was the west coast representative for the Moline Automobile Company. (Eagle Rock Sentinel)