I believe it was shot in Pasadena. That's a Pacific Electric 200 series urban trolley, the standard gauge analog of the Los Angeles Railway narrow gauge Type B car. It doesn't go more than 25 mph, so they had to play games with the film speed.
Coolidge was president, and all was well with the world, except for Prohibition.
143 posted on 11/19/2014 7:40:29 PM PST by Publius
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