FIRST LOS ANGELES CABLE RAILWAY CAR ARRIVES IN BOYLE HEIGHTS, 1889
Entry/Object ID
2000.217.1.26
Description
FIRST LOS ANGELES CABLE RAILWAY CAR ARRIVES IN BOYLE HEIGHTS, 1889
Color: Black; White
A reproduced black and white photograph of the arrival of the first Los Angeles Cable Railway Co. car to Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, August 1889. The car is at right, filled with passengers and decorated with American flags. The return track is alongside on First Street. Above the street is a large banner decorated with more flags and having a sign at the center reading "BOYLE HEIGHTS / WELCOMES / THE / CABLE / RAILWAY. On either side of the sign are cartoons with the one on the left, titled "AFTER THE OPERA" with the date "1879" showing three men chasing after a horse-drawn streetcar. A caption says "Said [Boyle Heights founder William H. Workman to Chandler / Do you think we can catch her" and another reads "Said [William H.] Perry to [J. J.] Warner / If we can't we're a goner." This refers to the archaic horse-drawn streetcars that started in Los Angeles in 1874. To the right of the sign is another cartoon, titled "MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG" and dated 1889 showing the new, modern cablecar filled with passengers. At the helm is a man, probably identified by a sign at the front of the car with the name "J. T. Robinson." At the left are observers and persons walking in the street. A few buildings and power poles are in the background and at the side of the road, at left, is a ditch or gutter with a plank bridge across it. The source of this image was a stereograph and printed upside down at the top is "Views of Los Angeles and Vicinity." See item .27 and .28 for related images. As a newly produced photograph, the artifact is in mint condition.
Number-Units: 1
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Two-dimensional, Photographs, Los Angeles Cable Railway Company, Street railroads--Los Angeles (Calif.), Streets--Los Angeles (Calif.)
