The original Angels Flight Railway location, with tracks connecting Hill Street and Olive Street in downtown Los Angeles , operated from 1901 until it was closed in 1969, when its site was cleared for redevelopment. The entire railway was dismantled and put into storage (SEE!, we don't destroy all that is old in L.A!) The second Angels Flight location opened nearby to the south in 1996. It was re-closed in 2001, after a fatal accident, and took nine years to commence operations again, on March 15, 2010. Some more info and nice pictures at: http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/view/23044083
Found these original tickets in a shoe-box at a postcard show.
This linen is postmarked July 16, 1951
The photo below is NOT a postcard, but it is a neat perspective of what was then and what is now. Photo is from the L.A.Times photo archieve, "Framework"
Dismantled an put into storage! Wow, where do you store a thing like that? Very nice cards.
ReplyDeleteI think I have the card at the top, and how about those tickets?!
ReplyDeleteI think that there are quite a few (like Mount Lowe) Angels Flight cards out there. I love'em! The ticket book find was cool. There always seems to be a vendor at a postcard show that has "stray" items that end up in a shoe-box. I wonder if Angels Flight would still honor the tickets :D
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