Friday, July 5, 2019

vintage Pacific Electric trolley at the Formosa café, Los Angeles

"The trolley in the back is the actually the oldest Pacific Red Car in existence where Mickey Cohen used to run a bookie operation" (Vintage Los Angeles blog)
Interior of Pacific Electric car 913 at 7156 Santa Monica Boulevard.
"It was a dark day in December 2016, when Formosa Café closed down after decades. The ultimate shutter followed a brief run under new operators, who undertook an ill-fated renovation which tore the vintage soul out of the place, leaving a behind a sad gray shell and bartenders who couldn’t mix a drink. When 1933 Group took over the property, they were committed to not repeating that mistake.

"Bobby Green, a co-owner of 1933, and his crack team of fabricators brought back the missing mahogany interior of the 1902 Pacific Electric streetcar which was converted to a luncheon counter and placed on the site in 1925. That trolley car luncheonette, The Red Post Cafe, would later be expanded to become Formosa."


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