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. Left to right: Mrs. Clarence J. Blasiar, general chairman, and Mrs. Fritz B. Burns, press relations chairman and member of the Board of Trustees, stop at Angels Flight news stand to obtain "Extra" announcing eighth annual Angel Ball sponsored by St. Anne's Foundation to be held Saturday, May 19, in the Crystal Room at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Photograph dated May 4, 1962.
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1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
Burns, Fritz B.,--1899-1979--Family Angels Flight (Railway) Newspaper vendors--California--Los Angeles Railroads, Cable--California--Los Angeles Women--California--Los Angeles Reading--California--Los Angeles Newspapers Lost architecture--California--Bunker Hill (Los Angeles) Dwellings--California--Bunker Hill (Los Angeles) Bunker Hill (Los Angeles, Calif.) Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.) Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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