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Title: Mountain Station, Palm Springs Aerial Tramway
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1963
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
The Palm Springs Aerial Tramway, designed by Swiss engineer Henri Bodmer, opened in 1963 and is a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark. The Tramway Valley Station, constructed between 1949-1963, was designed by Albert Frey and Robson C. Chambers and the Mountain Station, built in 1961, was designed by architect E. Stewart Williams. In 2000-2001, the Tramway updated its facilities and replaced the old cars with ones that rotate slowly, offering riders a 360° panoramic view.
Photograph caption dated September 9, 1963 reads, "Cable car of the $8 million Palm Springs Aerial Tramway approaches landing dock at the upper terminal at elevation of 8,516 feet. Project under construction for two years, opens to the public Sept. 14."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00094546
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 88
CARL0005022679
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/29479
Subject: Palm Springs Aerial Tramway
Aerial tramways--California--Palm Springs
National Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks
Mountains--California, Southern
San Jacinto Mountains (Calif.)
San Jacinto Peak (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Bodmer, Henri
Williams, Stewart,1909-2005

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