Los Angeles electric streetcars being loaded aboard the Liberian ship Santa Helena at Long Beach Harbor, Calif., 1965

Item Overview

Title: Los Angeles electric streetcars being loaded aboard the Liberian ship Santa Helena at Long Beach Harbor, Calif., 1965
Date Created: August 26, 1965
Date: 1965-08-26
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Caption: OFF TO EGYPT-Electric streetcars that once carried passengers on Los Angeles streets are loaded aboard the Liberian ship Santa Helena at Long Beach Harbor. The cargo tanker sails today with 10 of the cars, which were first of 143 sold to the Cairo, Egypt, Transportation Co. by the former Metropolitan Transit Authority. The streetcars will be used in Alexandria, Egypt.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 photograph
Dimensions: 5 x 5 cm.
Medium: b&w negative

Keywords

Genre: news photographs
Names: Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority
Location: Los Angeles (Calif.)--Commerce
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Transportation
Stevedores--California--Los Angeles County
Loading and unloading
Electric railroads--Cars
Cargo ships

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Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclalat_1429_b556_229919
ARK: ark:/21198/zz0002twms
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