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Title
Angels Flight passengers
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1958
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
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Description
Title supplied by cataloger.
Angels flight operated from 1901 until it was closed in 1969 when its location was redeveloped. The railway was relocated and reassembled at California Plaza in March of 1995, and closed again on February of 2001 after a serious accident resulted in the death of a passenger, and the injuries of seven others. The accident occurred when the ascending Sinai cable car suddenly reversed direction and uncontrollably accelerated downhill and struck the Olivet cable car near the lower terminus. The second funicular still exists and reopened in 2010. Angels Flight Railway was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 13, 2000, structure #00001168.
A crowd standing on the corner at the foot of Angels Flight waves to the photographer as they wait for their cable car ride. A sign seen in the background proclaims "Do Not Board A Moving Car". Photograph dated November 24, 1958.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;25 x 17 cm. on sheet 26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00092176
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 29
CARL0004992097
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/28302
Subject
Angels Flight (Railway)
Railroads, Cable--California--Los Angeles
Crowds--California--Los Angeles
Tunnels--California--Los Angeles
Third Street (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Third Street Tunnel (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Bunker Hill (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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