Los angeles pacific electric. The pacific electric railway company nicknamed the red cars was a privately owned mass transit system in southern california consisting of electrically powered streetcars interurban cars and buses and was the largest electric railway system in the world in the 1920s. Constructed in 1905 and considered the citys first skyscraper the pacific electric building now stands firmly in the modern age as pe lofts apartmentsdowntown los angeles cas premier residential community. The goals of the peryhs are.
To make these materials available to the general public via publications monographs presentations and displays to non profit groups and organizations and to assist other non profit organizations in. Its network encompassed nearly 1100 miles serving los angeles and its suburbs of san bernardino long beach pasadena santa ana hollywood redondo pomona riverside santa monica and san fernando. Pe lofts combines modern luxury with downtowns rich history.
The pacific electric railway historical society peryhs is a non profit association dedicated to the preservation of the memory of the pacific electric railway. Plenty of people blame this on general motors and other companies tied to the auto industry which oversaw a buyout of pacific electrics rival company the los angeles railway in 1945. The pacific electric railway pe was unquestionably the worlds most extensive interurban system.