This car is painted to commemorate Los Angeles Railway Co (LARy). LA ran PCC streetcars from 1937 to 1963. San Diego got California’s first PCCs, beating LARy by a few weeks, but LARy got bragging rights when Shirley Temple unveiled its first PCCs.

LARy served central Los Angeles using narrow gauge track. Rival Pacific Electric (PE) was more of an interurban operation, running its few PCCs on its line to Burbank and Glendale. Unlike the intricate paint scheme of PE’s PCCs (modeled by Muni No. 1061) LARy’s first PCCs came in simple two-tone yellow as seen on this car, later trying green, yellow & white combinations (as on No. 1080), though never matching up to the dashing PE design. But the narrow gauge PCCs outlasted their standard gauge PE counterparts, and even then many of the LARy cars soldiered on for decades in their second home—Cairo, Egypt.