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CLOSING SOON: The Yellow Car and Los Angeles
November 22, 2022 - September 21, 2023
Free
ORGANIZED BY METRO ART IN COLLABORATION WITH THE METRO DOROTHY PEYTON GRAY TRANSPORTATION LIBRARY AND ARCHIVE.
The Yellow Car and Los Angeles, an original exhibition organized by Metro Art and featuring materials sourced from Metro’s Dorothy Peyton Gray Transportation Library and Archive, highlights the Yellow Cars of Los Angeles Railway Corporation (or LARy, for short) and LA’s early buses to offer a fond look back at Los Angeles transit history. Together, these early rail and bus lines are the foundations which shaped the transit system Metro is restoring today.
The exhibition, which was designed by Metro Art for the Union Station Waiting Room, features reproduction photographs, tickets and other ephemera from the Metro Transportation Library and Archive – one of the most comprehensive transit libraries in the United States. Rail car design drawings are side by side with street photographs of the trolleys. Hand-painted place names, map-like dots and lines, and colors in the exhibition’s design are inspired by painted signs and vintage maps (1926-1944) in the transportation library’s collection.
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- The Yellow Car and Los Angeles at Union Station
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- The Yellow Car and Los Angeles at Union Station
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- The Yellow Car and Los Angeles at Union Station
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- The Yellow Car and Los Angeles at Union Station
Metro Art enhances the customer experience with innovative, award-winning visual and performing arts programming that encourages ridership and connects people, sites and neighborhoods throughout LA County. A diverse range of site-specific artworks are integrated into the growing Metro system, improving the quality of transit environments and creating a sense of place. Follow Metro Art on Facebook and Instagram, and subscribe for email updates.
Metro’s Dorothy Peyton Gray Transportation Library and Archive is one of the most comprehensive transit operator-owned library resources in the United States. It isthe only multimodal transportation library in Southern California and is open to the public. Its origins date back to the Los Angeles Consolidated Electric Railway (1895) and Pacific Electric Railway (1899). Follow the Library on Flickr and Instagram.
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