File:View of the Angels Flight with the cars, the tower and surrounding buildings, Third Street and Hill Street, Los Angeles, ca.1910 (CHS-5542).jpg

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English: View of the Angels Flight with the cars, the tower and surrounding buildings, Third Street and Hill Street, Los Angeles, ca.1910
  • Photograph of a view of the Angels Flight on Bunker Hill in Downtown Los Angeles — with the cars (left of the tower), the view tower (center), and surrounding buildings, including the William Ferguson building on the corner of Third Street and Hill Street, ca.1910.
  • The surrounding buildings flank the Angels Flight transportation facility. A set of stairs (to the right of the railway car) allows people to walk up to the top of the hill instead of taking the incline railway car. A tall tower, with a platform and a booth, stands at the top of the flight.
  • Picture file card reads: "The architect of the Ferguson building was George H. Wyman, who also designed the Bradbury building."; Legible signs include: "ladies tailor", "301, Marsden Drug Co., drugs, cigars", "Common Sense Beauty Shop", "D. Curl C.S., Christian science [...]", "Dr. W.K. Chambers, dentist", "Champ Clark for president", "The Hulburt apartments", "Angels Flight, B.P.O.E.", "S. Hill St.", "Notice $100 fine, for riding, driving or propelling any vehicle faster than 8 miles per hour in this tunnel, see ordinance no. 15775", "take other walk, going west", "Vegetarian Cafeteria", "furnished rooms", "Young Woman's [...] Christian Association building", "power off", "409, The Glen Vil[la], furnished rooms", "Hotel Hillcrest", "Rose, McCoy", "sanitarium", "257, The Guiles [furnish]ed rooms, week or month, prices reasonable".
  • "The original Angels Flight, originally known as the 'Los Angeles Incline Railway,' was built in 1901 by Col. J.W. Eddy to connect the original Downtown shopping district below with the posh residential district of Bunker Hill, with its Victorian frame houses. Then located at the corner of 3rd and Hill streets, Angels Flight was known (and is still known) as 'The World's Shortest Railway,' with its two counterbalanced passenger cars, Sinai and Olivet ascending up and descending down the hill for all Angelenos, all for a nickel. During the post-World War II era, the growth of Los Angeles boomed, and the once-upper-class area of Bunker Hill had turned into a slum. The Victorian homes were gradually razed, and those that remained were converted to boarding houses."
  • "Bunker Hill became an urban renewal project under the California Redevelopment Act, and in the late 1960s, everything was demolished to make room for office buildings and a senior citizen's condominium complex, called the Angelus Plaza. Angels Flight, however, was not demolished but dismantled, by the City, who promised to move and re-build the Los Angeles landmark 'in a couple of years'." -- unknown author.
Call number: CHS-5542
Legacy record ID: chs-m8482; USC-1-1-1-8617
Filename: CHS-5542
Coverage date: circa 1910
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Type: images
Geographic subject (city or populated place): Los Angeles; Los Angeles
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Accession number: 5542
Archival file: chs_Volume64/CHS-5542.tiff
Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Geographic subject (country): USA
Format (aacr2): 4 photographs : glass photonegative, photonegatives, photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm., 11 x 13 cm.
Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
Subject (adlf): transportation features
Architect: Wyman, George H.
Project: USC
Repository email: specol@usc.edu
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: circa 1910
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): negatives (photographic); photographic prints; photographs
Geographic subject (state): California
Subject (file heading): Transportation -- Rail -- Street Railroads -- Incline
Format: glass plate negatives
Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Geographic subject (county): Los Angeles
Geographic subject (roadway): Third Street; Hill Street
Subject (lcsh): Transportation; Building
Subject: William Ferguson building; General Subjects -- Transportation -- Street Railways
Date circa 1910
date QS:P,+1910-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/8798
Author Unknown authorUnknown author

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