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."

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

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2010 pg. 74

About the Author
Dawson, Jim: - Jim Dawson is a West Virginia born writer who has lived in Hollywood for 30 years. He is frequently cited for his excavation of Los Angeles s black musical history in such books as Nervous Man Nervous and What Was the First Rock n Roll Record? Dawson has written liner notes for more than 100 albums, including an essay in Rhino Records award-winning 1999 box set Central Avenue Sounds.