Anaheim Streetcar in Front of the Fashion Stables, Anaheim

Resource Information

The work Anaheim Streetcar in Front of the Fashion Stables, Anaheim represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Anaheim Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Anaheim Streetcar in Front of the Fashion Stables, Anaheim

Subject

• Transportation
• Anaheim (Calif.) -- Description and travel -- Views -- 1857-1899
• Anaheim (Calif.) -- Historic buildings, etc
• Anaheim (Calif.) -- Photographs
• Anaheim Streetcar Company -- California | Anaheim
• Bittner, Nick A, act. approximately 1890
• Fashion Stables, est. 1872. -- California | Anaheim
• Los Angeles Vineyard Society
• Photographic print
• Street lights -- California | Anaheim
• Street-railroads -- California | Anaheim

Genre

• Photographic print
• Photographs
• Views

Summary

View of 200 block of West Center Street; image shows north side of the street, with the Fashion Stables, established by Lafayette Lewis in 1872; image shows three men standing with a horse at the entrance of Fashion Stables, and a horse-drawn streetcar driven by Nick Bittner; a coal oil street lamp is visible behind the streetcar; the Anaheim Streetcar Company, [Theodore Rimpau, president] operated from January, 1887, until the fall of 1899, and connected the Southern Pacific (located at what became West Broadway and Mable Street) and Santa Fe depots; the streetcars hours of operation were from 7:30 AM until 6:05 PM, and they were especially patronized by women; the novelty wore off and operational expenses began to exceed revenue; service was discontinued in 1899 and the tracks were removed in 1901; signage on facade of stables reads "FASHION / LIVERY & FEED / STABLES"

Member of

• Digital Anaheim

Cataloging source

CANA

Technique

unknown