It’s a beautiful thing when Southern Californians take pride in their fascinating and diverse history. This past weekend the Metro Transportation Library & Archive logged its 3,000,000th view on our online Flickr photo gallery (yes, three million in less than five years). Over here at The Source, the reaction to “then [continue reading]
The Metro Transportation Library & Archive is participating in a landmark joint exhibit of the Getty Museum and Getty Research Institute. Overdrive: L.A. Constructs The Future, 1940-1990, which runs from April 9 through July 21, 2013, is part of Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture In L.A. The exhibit is the [continue reading]
Hello Source readers, its been a while since I’ve updated you on metro.net happenings and new stuff — well, here they are, enjoy! Interactive Maps & Infographics! A few new interactive maps and infographics have been added to Metro’s website, the maps use Google Maps API and are usable on [continue reading]
Metro fields questions everyday about the agency. Many questions are routine and concern the operation of Metro’s bus and rail lines. Others, however, aim to get a deeper understanding of how the agency works. In many cases, journalists, citizens, community groups and private businesses use the state Public Records Act [continue reading]
Photo by Metro Library and Transportation Archive, via their Flickr photostream That’s the old Ivy stop — i.e. Culver City — circa 1905. The new Expo Line station is a little larger. To submit a photo for the Art of Transit, post it to Metro’s Flickr group, email it to sourcemetro@gmail.com or Tweet [continue reading]
photo by Alan Weeks, via Metro Transportation Library and Archive’s Flickr page Great shot of the old Glendale Line streetcar crossing the Los Angeles River in April, 1952. As many locals know, the bridge abutments are still there but the span is gone. The photo was taken from the Hyperion [continue reading]
Did you know that the Metro Transportation Library & Archive’s Flickr photo site has grown to more than 7,700 digital images? The collection of local area photographs dating back to the 1880s has been online for just over 3 years, and this week it surpassed 1.5 million views. That reinforces [continue reading]
The Los Angeles Department of Transportation DASH system logs 7 million passenger trips per year on five different lines downtown and another 27 throughout the city. This innovative service got its start forty years ago this week when the Southern California Rapid Transit District launched a proto-DASH service under the name [continue reading]
Photo via Metro Transportation Library and Archive’s Flickr page Great photo taken in 1950 of the old downtown Los Angeles PE terminal. Here’s the home page for the Metro Library’s Flickr photostream — you can kill a lot of time cruising the archive. Good stuff. To submit a photo for [continue reading]
The Metro Transportation Library & Archive’s collection on Flickr now contains more than 7,500 historic images and continues to grow. Numerous photographs from the Pacific Electric (“Red Car”) and Los Angeles Railway(“Yellow Car”) systems shed light on our transit history and what was once the largest streetcar system in the world. This [continue reading]
