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English: AWAITING DESTRUCTION--Old Pacific Electric cars are piled up like toys at junkyard on Terminal Island, awaiting dismantling to become scrap metal.
Description
English: Pacific Electric Railway cars piled atop one another at junkyard on Terminal Island, Calif., 1956
Polski: Tramwaje Pacific Electric Railway na złomowsku w Los Angeles, Marzec 1956
Date 19 March 1956
date QS:P571,+1956-03-19T00:00:00Z/11
Dimensions height: 10 cm (3.9 in); width: 12.5 cm (4.9 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,10U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,12.5U174728
Accession number
uclalat_1429_b268_97903
Object history Published in Los Angeles Times
Source Los Angeles Times photographic archive, Digital collectons — UCLA Library https://digital.library.ucla.edu/catalog/ark:/21198/zz0002tqg9
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5089 5097 5092 5072 5052 5134 5077 5083 5055 5109 5099
5127 5140 5147 5069 5107 5106 5144 5132 5087 5057 5169 5067?
???? 5143 5146 5150 5139 ???? 5142 5095 5053 5136 5168 5076 5051

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