Last Night We Bought A Train Trip For A Penny

In celebration of Angels Flight’s 109th anniversary, fares on The World’s Shortest Railway were rolled back on New Year’s Eve from their present day quarter to 1901 prices: one cent. And since plans were in place to see “Next To Normal” at the Ahmanson, rather than park at the Music Center, I opted to park …

Circa 1890s: Sunset & Castelar

I’ve had this image for several weeks, found in one of my swims through the LA Public Library’s digital archives, but I’ve refrained from posting it because the information packaged with the image is sparse. It lists this is street scene as Sunset and Castelar in 1890, but I’d never heard and could find on …

4th Street Viaduct Panorama

It was hastily shot and even more hastily cobbled together, but as you might tell in this 180-degree four-frame panorama there wasn’t a much better vista during yesterday’s CicLAvia than atop the 4th Street Bridge (click to panoramify):