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Order Number	00077822
Title	Looking down upon Angels Flight
Collection ID	Herald Examiner Collection
Location/Accession	HE box 29; HE-000-098 4x5
Date	1965
Physical Description	1 photographic print :b&w ;28 x 36 cm.
Notes	Title supplied by cataloger.; Photograph used for articles dated June 19, 1965 and September 25, 1968.
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 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 but does not operate. Angels Flight Railway was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 13, 2000, structure #00001168.
Description	Photograph caption reads, "Los Angeles' historic Angels' Flight is 64 years old but it's still going strong, operating efficiently and transporting from 1200 to 1500 daily back and forth up to 33-degree grade in a minute's time in two cable cars. This view shows historic railway in a sea of modern structures."
Subject	Angels Flight (Railway). Railroads, Cable--California--Los Angeles. Buildings--California--Los Angeles. Bunker Hill (Los Angeles, Calif.). Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs. Herald-Examiner Collection 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 Herald Examiner Photo Collection