Another shot of the old Bunker Hill Steps first posted by
DonRayMedia on page 408 of this thread. (I cannot believe it took me this long to find it.)
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He also remembered Hope Place being called Upper 5th St, which is correct. At any rate, it's called Hope Place now, in it's new right-of-way behind One Bunker Hill and Library Tower. The "Hope Street" street sign in the photo must have confused many a new-to-LA motorist.
The steps were pretty creepy by the 70's, but in the 50's they were in constant use and seemed to me, as a child, quite glamorous.
And one last shot of the Engstrum, previously posted by
ethereal_reality on pg 237 of this thread
I cannot remember if this has come up before, but does any one know when the Angels' Flight Ticket Office lost it's original four-bay pavilion? It was sometime between when it was built in 1910 and the 1940's, maybe as early as the 1920's. I cannot find a digital pic of it, but it's shown on page 36 of Jim Dawson's "Los Angeles' Angels Flight" (2008).
The original pavilion continued the arches of the ticket office and, more importantly, the roof line, the arches being picked out with lights. The blocky porch that replaced it seems both awful and awkward:
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It's a pity they didn't restore it to the 1910 version.