Henry Huntington and the Pacific Electric: A Pictorial Album

The Big Red Cars were a Southern California institution--they served well and now Los Angeles whishes they were back.Henry Huntington was the nephew of Collis P. Huntington--one of the "Big Four" who founded what is now the mighty Southern Pacific railroad. Henry, too, was a Southern California institution: tycoon, builder, art collector, benefactor of the world-famed library which bears his name.This book is about the Red Car system--the Pacific Electric -- and the man who stated it all: Henry Huntington. It's a pictorial with a big bonus: a listing of the routes, telling where the cars went and how frequently they operated.