Los Angeles's Angels Flight

From 1901 to 1969, Angels Flight was America s most famous incline railway, familiar from its many appearances on postcards and in pulp fiction and film noir. It inspired the titles of five novels, including a 1999 best seller, and three films. Angels Flight s two colorful trolleys glided up and down the side of Bunker Hill in the heart of Los Angeles, carrying 100 million passengers between a downtown business district and a Victorian aerie that gradually deteriorated into a gritty slum. When the city turned Bunker Hill into an acropolis of skyscrapers, Angels Flight was packed up like a boy s electric train set and stored away for nearly 30 years. After a restoration in the mid-1990s that led to a fatal accident, Angels Flight has reopened and is now ready to claim its next chapters in Los Angeles history."

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Published: 08/11/2008
ISBN: 9780738558127
Pages: 127
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.86w x 0.32d

Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2010 pg. 74