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Title
Angels Flight, 3rd Street tunnel and Bunker Hill
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator
Martinez, Milton
Date Created and/or Issued
1965
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 view from Hill Street and 3rd Street looking toward Angels Flight on the opposite corner, with both cable cars in motion and pedestrians waiting to cross on all sides. 3rd Street and the 3rd Street Tunnel are visible to the right of the cable cars; the hill above looks almost barren, as the buildings that once were there have been demolished as part of the re-development of Bunker Hill. Photograph dated June 18, 1965.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;27 x 30 cm. on sheet 29 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00092184
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 29
CARL0004993871
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/28310
Subject
Angels Flight (Railway)
Railroads, Cable--California--Los Angeles
Pedestrians--California--Los Angeles
Tunnels--California--Los Angeles
Streets--California--Los Angeles
Lost architecture--California--Los Angeles
Third Street Tunnel (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Third Street (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Bunker Hill (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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