Posted by bob fishback --Previous Message--
on 2/16/2007, 9:52 am, in reply to "Memories of the Red Car Subway"
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: When I was about 7 to 10 years of age, my
: Mother worked in a doctors office at 4th and
: Broadway in downtown L.A. Her sister, my
: Aunt, lived a few blocks from Echo Park.
: Either my Mother or my Aunt would often take
: me from downtown to the Echo Park area via
: the sleek red car subway system. The
: station was on 6th and Olive and we would go
: down a ramp to the below ground platform to
: board the street cars. As I remember the
: trip took only a few minutes because the
: tunnel was only a couple of miles long.
:
: We exited the tunnel just on the edge of
: Echo Park. We would get off and walk east
: toward my Aunt's place. I always loved to
: ride the "subway" since in those
: days it was not felt that the loose soil in
: L.A. would ever be suitable for tunnel
: construction. I also remember playing with
: kids from the neighborhood on the flattened
: and graded bed of what was to become the
: Hollywood freeway as it headed toward the
: downtown interchange and joined the Harbor
: and Pasadena freeways. This was circa 1950
: or so.
:
: As a side note I also remember riding
: various big Red Cars to places like Long
: Beach, Venice, etc., etc. I particularly
: remember the Red Car that went to Long Beach
: also traveled along tracks that were part of
: the rail road system from the train yards in
: the eastern part of down town L.A. That
: particular Red Car went along Alameda Blvd.
: on part of its route.
:
: If only the city fathers had know about what
: was to become of the L.A./Orange county
: population in years to come. They would
: never have allowed the various rights of way
: to be given up. Surface travel would have
: been impossible with city cross traffic, but
: imagine the use of monorails in todays
: environment.
:
Your post too god to ignore. Pls see my posting. My time was 1944-1950. Let's share memories. Bob
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