- Title
- Angel's Flight, Los Angeles
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- Creator
- Kodachrome; Geo H. Eberhard Company
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- Description
- View of the Angel's Flight railway and surrounding buildings at 3rd and Hill Streets in downtown Los Angeles. The cars are painted bright orange and black, and there is an ornate arch at the base of the hill in matching colors. The bottom floor of the Ferguson Building (on the left) is occupied by a Cafe, and there is a traffic signal at the intersection of 3rd and Hil, as well as electric lighting in the tunnel going through the hill.
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- Format Extent
- 1 postcard : Color ; 9 x 14 cm.
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- Subject
- Railroads, cable--California--Los Angeles; Street railroads--California--Los Angeles
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- Note
- The Angels Flight Railway began operating in 1901. Located at 3rd and Hill Streets in downtown Los Angeles, it used a funicular system of two counterbalanced cars moving up and down parallel tracks. The cars were originally painted white, but were repainted to black and orange in 1930. In 1959, Angels Flight was slated for demolition as part of the Bunker Hill Urban Renewal Project, but community support succeeded in delaying the dismantling until 1969. Restoration and reconstruction efforts began in 1995.
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- Collection
- Werner von Boltenstern Postcard Collection
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- Type
- ["Postcards"]
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- Geographic Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.); Hill Street (Los Angeles, Calif.); Bunker Hill (Los Angeles, Calif.)
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- Language
- eng
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