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Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug
Here is my answer and welcome to this Forum. I arrived in LA on a train with my mother and brother when WW II was still blazing. So when you've lived here that long, one has a lot of associations and memories of this city.
But keep in mind that the Forum was started by ER and he only spent a few years here.... and has an amazing encyclopedic knowledge of LA.
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Well, that’s one way to learn a lot about a place, Doug… by actually living there! Thank-you for the welcome! I guess you
just missed out on coming into La Grande Station, one of my favorite structures of early LA, seeing as how it closed in 1939. Or perhaps you actually saw it, as it wasn’t demolished until 1946?
I was only born in 1966, so most of the beautiful buildings in this thread were long-gone by the time I was old enough to visit them. If I were you, I don’t think I would have been able to take it… watching all these beautiful buildings (let alone, actual HILLS like Bunker Hill itself!) simply vanish, one by one! But at the same time, I envy you for being able to have experienced so much of what remained of early-era Los Angeles
in person! I’d kill to see what you have seen!
My mother took me for a ride on Angels Flight during its final days in 1969. I like to believe that I remember this happening, and though I have no memories of the top or the bottom of the flight, I feel certain that I can remember looking down the tracks as we rode towards the bottom, from the viewpoint of my mother’s lap. Then again, I was only three at the time, and you know what they say about false memories!
I’ve certainly noticed many of ER’s posts in this thread, and they are among the best and most informative posts here! I had no idea that he started this great forum, however -
thanks, ER, this is the best place ever!