Angels Flight funicular and Elk Building, downtown Los Angeles, circa 1910s
This color postcard of the Angels Flight funicular was most likely taken in the 1910s and shows us how much of what we think of as downtown Los Angeles (which was probably just “Los Angeles” to the locals) was dotted with the sort of large homes we can see to the left. It looks so sedate, doesn’t it? The “VEG” in the sign nearer the lower right hand corner is the large sign for the Vegetarian Cafeteria that stood the corner of 3rd and Hill Streets for most of the first two decades of the 20th century.
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Hi Martin,
Filmed this in 8mm in its last week of operation before they scuppered it for a few years. My mother went to Belmont High before we moved to Venice Beach. Somewhere Philip Marlowe lingers in an alleyway, smoking a Lucky Strike. Being an old guy, I prefer old LA where form and function blended nicely under the California sun.
David Sundstrand
Hi David and thanks for stopping by. You have footage of Angels Flight? What year would you have shot it? I don’t suppose it’s been digitized so that we could see it?