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Union Traction Company streetcar on Woodrow Avenue near Delaware. The sign on the top of the car says "Vue de L'Eau."

Date: ca. 1912
Type: PHOTO

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A Union Traction Company streetcar at the Electric Station in Capitola, located at Monterey and Capitola Streets.

Date: 1904-1924
Type: PHOTO

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A view of the Sea Beach Hotel, built by S. A. Hall in the 1870s. It was completely destroyed by a fire which began at 3:30 a.m. on June 12, 1912. At the foot of the hotel is Union Traction Company Streetcar Number 5 westbound Beach Street.

Date: ca. 1908
Type: PHOTO

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The Casa del Rey hotel. It was built by Fred Swanton in 1911, as part of the Boardwalk development. Union Traction streetcar Number 20 shuttled between the hotel and the Union Station.

Date: After 1911
Type: PHOTO

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Union Traction Company's electric streetcar Number 17. It is on Water Street, near Morrissey Boulevard on the Laveaga Park branch.

Date: Prior to 1924 (when the streetcar was scrapped)
Type: PHOTO

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Three 25-passenger Mack buses belonging to the Union Traction Company. They were the first rubber-tired passenger vehicles for the company, arriving in December 1924. The route signs on the buses read: Capitola, Twin Lakes, and Santa Cruz.

Date: December, 1924
Type: PHOTO

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Along the Capitola line, a Santa Cruz bound Union Traction streetcar heads westward, across the Twin Lakes trestle over Schwan Lake.

Date: 1905-1926
Type: PHOTO

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The interior of the carpenter shop in the Union Traction carbarn, located at Pacific Avenue and Sycamore Street. The men from left to right are: Clarence Fields, Ernest Fitzgerald, Hugh Beauchamp.

Date: 1908
Type: PHOTO

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The interior of the powerhouse at the Union Traction carbarn, showing the motor-generator sets. The carbarn was located at Pacific Avenue and Sycamore Street.

Date: ca. 1907
Type: PHOTO

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Work motor No. 100 crossing the Water Street Bridge. It is carrying materials and track laborers to the construction site of Union Traction's Laveaga Park branch.

Date: ca. 1908
Type: PHOTO

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