Some PERY History

I just found this neat little piece of info.

For a while now I’d been aware that the big bus depot down in Venice was originally built as a train depot for the old trolley lines. You can still see the railroad tracks on Rose between Main and Pacific, as well as in a few other spots. I’ve been reading that there was also a spot in south Santa Monica where another train depot had been located. There’s no obvious evidence of it now. The Pacific / Neilson thoroughfare had originally been reserved for the Pacific Electric trolley (hence the name Pacific Avenue).

I found this on the MTA website:

There was another facility beside the Ocean Park Car House with a yard on Ashland Street, north of Kinney Avenue, between the Trolleyway (now Neilson Way) and Main Street. It was used to store Pacific Electric buses (probably the Brentwood line) and the Los Angeles Motor Coach Co. line to Santa Monica. There was a building at 174 Kinney Ave, Ocean Park, just inside the Santa Monica city limits that still existed in 2001. The other end of the building was on Pier Ave, which might have been the Ocean Park station for Pacific Electric service. The original Kinney Avenue street name is for Abbot Kinney, the visionary who founded Venice as a resort. Just south in Venice there is an Abbot Kinney Blvd (formerly Washington Blvd.). The Venice Short Line buses operated out of this facility from 1950 to 1951.

Updated: I think this might be a photo of that railyard.