Anonymous ID: b18bcb Dec. 26, 2019, 3:44 p.m. No.7627739   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7777 >>7829 >>7962

>>7626719 PB

>Dig on Guatemala House of Culture and Los Angeles Prohibition-Era Underground tunnels continued

>>7626198 PB

>CITY OF THE UNDERWORLD

>>7625968 PB

>Can U Get THERE FROM HERE…?

>=AND DO IT Underground==

Yes. Ride the Red Cars.

 

https://gizmodo.com/90-years-ago-the-los-angeles-subway-was-born-in-this-l-1744653992

 

The Pacific Electric system—nicknamed the “Red Cars”—was once the largest interurban railway in the world, with over 1,000 miles of track at its height in the early 1920s. But many of its trains and trolleys were traveling along streets which were already becoming crowded with automobiles. The subway was proposed to help move passengers more efficiently through high-traffic areas but also as a way to avoid LA’s many hilly neighborhoods. The tunnel was approved by a bond measure with the hopes that future rail development would be placed underground as well.

 

The subway terminated in the creatively named Subway Terminal Building, which still stands today in the heart of LA’s changing downtown. While the building has been turned into luxury lofts, the subway station below it remains almost completely untouched.

 

It’s condemned now—do not call the building and try to arrange a visit—but a few years ago I got special permission to go in there. Here are some of my photos compared to historical images from the Metro Library Archive.