As an Angeleno who didn’t arrive in Los Angeles until the mid-90s, I’ve only ever known the Angel’s Flight funicular in Hill Street in downtown LA as standing all by itself like a lost child. So it always comes as a bit of a shock when I find photos of it—like this one taken circa mid-50s, if that ’55 Oldsmobile is anything to go by—in among and part of a more tradition urban landscape.
Angel’s Flight Railway ticket:
This is the Angel’s Flight that I know:
I lived on Bunker Hill in the 1940’s – 60’s where my family owned several of the Victorian houses. I rode Angels Flight many times and still love it. Sadly is all that remains of my neighborhood which was not the blighted slum depicted by propaganda of the time. I am glad Angels Flight is still with us although for me it is completely out of context as shown by these then and now photos. I could and have gone on for pages on this subject but will leave it at that for now.
Wow, Gordon so you lived there! I don’t suppose there are any photos in some Pattison family albums showing what it was like…?
Martin-
I don’t know if you’re interested, but I have what I believe is the largest collection of Angel’s Flight postcards anywhere. That may not be saying a lot, as I don’t know anyone else who collects them.