The Hollywoods, PE 600-759, were built between 1922 and 1925, by St. Louis Car, except for 700-749, which were built by Brill. Originally slow city cars, 732-749 were upgraded to run as "suburbans" at about 42 mph in 1938, for the San Fernando Valley; hence the nickname Valley Seven. In 1940, the rest of the fleet was upgraded, and all 160 cars received the butterfly paint scheme. In 1949-1951, cars 600-734 (I think) became 1man-2man and received numbers between 5050 to 5184. Cars 735-759 were sold to Buenos Aires and ran until about 1974. Of the cars that went to Argentina, only 758 survives in a museum there. Meanwhile, most of the 5050's were scrapped during 1954-1956 during the Metro Coach era, but ten survived into the LAMTA era, and these were again renumbered into the 1800 series. Walter Abbenseth saved 4 of these cars, and the now-backdated and restored 717 is the former 5167/1815. OERM's other 3 are in serious need of restoration, but are complete cars.

Meanwhile, Car 655/5094 (which never became an 1800) was junked about 1956, but it ended up on the top of the scrap pile when it was rescued and was beautifully cosmetically restored by one Richard Fellows, who had plans to restore it to run as a rubber tired diesel powered display. The power end of his project was not finished when Fellows died. His family donated the 655 to OERM, where it has since been placed on motorless Hollywood shop trucks -- where OERM has plans and dreams of getting it running again one day. See www.oerm.org for photos and more info.