The Pacific Electric Railway was a major form of transportation for Southern California from about 1915 to the late 1930s. The first Whittier Art Gallery located in Whittier’s business  district, was a short distance from the Pacific Electric Railway tracks. Travel to the gallery from Los Angeles was convenient and inexpensive during the time before busses became popular.  The tracks in this Uptown section of Whittier were taken up in 1938, and the metal was given to the War effort.

Courtesy, Whittier Historical Society & Museum