SAN DIEGO--503. 1037 at Broadway/4th Avenue (Horton Plaza), c.1944

            This is  a rare view of streetcar and bus action in San Diego during World War II. We're at Horton Plaza (still there today!). PCC 503's rear end is at the left. It's followed by ancient ex-Third Avenue Railway System (NY) 1037. A pair of Yellow Coaches (GM subsidiary) line the gutters, and hordes of sailors are walking the sidewalks. 

Of the three cities that San Diego Electric Railway purchased used streetcars from, to aid in the war effort, inexplicably, the ex-TARS cars lasted the longest. In 1936, San Diego became the second US city to roster a fleet of new PCCs, after Brooklyn (though Pittsburgh operated one car in revenue service, beating Brooklyn by just days). The last San Diego streetcars, including the 28 PCCs, ran until 1949. 20 PCCs subsequently went to El Paso, where six of them have been remanufactured for a new service beginning in  2018.
503, the PCC pictured, is now being restored as Baltimore 7303 at the Baltimore Streetcar Museum.

Photo circa 1944. San Diego Metropolitan Transit System archive, via Allan J. Ingram.

Taken in: United States / California / San Diego (show map)

Taken on: January 1, 1944

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