Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
2 items: letter, 7/7/1960, from Harold Wright (L.A. Chamber of Commerce) to Norman Chandler and memo from Nick Williams, 7/18/1960, both on the subject of the preservation of Angels Flight (funicular railway) in downtown L.A.
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Visual Materials
View from inside a passenger car of the Angels Flight incline railway, located at the intersection of Hill Street and Third Street in the Bunker Hill neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles, California.
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Visual Materials
Angels Flight cars, Olivet and Sinai, in operation on its trestle and tracks. Buildings once stood on the vacant lots alongside the funicular railway.
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Visual Materials
View of passengers waiting to take a ride on the Angels Flight incline railway, at the intersection of Hill Street and Third Street in the Bunker Hill neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles, California.
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Visual Materials
View from inside a passenger car of the Angels Flight incline railway, located at the intersection of Hill Street and Third Street in the Bunker Hill neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles, California.
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Manuscripts
Approx. 10 items: photocopy of 1889 event -- opening of cable car line to Boyle Heights ; photocopy of 1902 scene -- a horse-drawn trolley in Echo Park, 1902 ; LAT article copy, 6/9/1889, opening of Los Angele Cable Railway ; LAT article copy, 12/16/1911, "Links of Steel to a new city," on Pacific Electric line to Van Nuys ; LAT clips from 1930, 1933 on various aspects of street railway operations ; four 1988 flyers related to the history of rail / streetcar service in Los Angeles, 1880s to 1960s ; article copy, Southern California Quarterly, Fall 1987, "America's electric railway beginnings ... trolleys and daft dummies in Los Angeles."
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