This car is painted in the livery of Los Angeles Transit Lines (LATL), which operated PCC streetcars after World War II.

Los Angeles Railways (whose 1937 PCC livery is worn by Muni No. 1052) sold out in 1945 to National City Lines (NCL), infamous for buying up streetcar lines and converting them to buses. But in LA, National City Lines bought more streetcars, 40 extra-wide PCCs of this body style in 1948, to modernize the Pico line, where patronage was too heavy for buses.

These were painted in the standard NCL paint scheme modeled on this car. Massive freeway construction in the 1950s and the resulting suburban sprawl stole riders from both LATL and its interurban counterpart Pacific Electric.

After a brief period of operation by the publicly owned Metropolitan Transit Authority and despite daily Pico line ridership of 40,000, PCCs disappeared from Los Angeles in 1963.