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Order Number	00068036
Title	Original Angels Flight railway site
Photographer	Hankey, Roy.
Collection ID	Roy Hankey Collection Los Angeles Photographers Collection
Location/Accession	GPC_b121_f3_i369
Physical Description	1 photograph :b&w
Historical Data	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 which resulted in the death of passenger Leon Praport, 83, and the injuries of seven others, including Praport's wife, Lola. 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 but does not operate; it is scheduled to reopen in the summer of 2007. Angels Flight Railway was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 13, 2000 - structure #00001168.
Description	View of the intersection of Hill and 3rd Street, looking east toward the lower entrance of the now-demolished original site of Angels Flight funicular railway. The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California Building, Pan American Building, and Douglas Building are all visible along 3rd Street.
Subject	Pan American Building (Los Angeles, Calif.). Douglas Building (Los Angeles, Calif.). Metropolitan Water District Building (Los Angeles, Calif.). Angels Flight (Railway). Railroads, Cable--California--Los Angeles. Streets--California--Los Angeles. Lost architecture--California--Bunker Hill (Los Angeles). Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (Calif.). Hill Street (Los Angeles, Calif.). Third Street (Los Angeles, Calif.). Third Street Tunnel (Los Angeles, Calif.). Bunker Hill (Los Angeles, Calif.). Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.). Cityscape photographs.
Format	Photographic prints
Reproduction Information	Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Sub-Collection Name	Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection