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Cautious Rider at Angels Flight

 

While holding two Grand Central Market shopping bags filled with groceries, this regular shopper watched the car carefully float to the bottom of Angels Flight Sunday afternoon.  Beaming that it once again was operating, he lifted his purchases ad entered past the gate to begin a trip back to his home on Bunker Hill. A ritual returns to Downtown. 

Just as he was about step into the cab, he turned to a guide appointed to assist riders to ask "Where's the safest place to sit?"

Angels Flight was in operation Sunday for a "soft opening." The regular operating schedule begins Monday at 6:45am and runs until 10pm. Safety features will be a big topic in tomorrow's stories.

Let me take you to Funicular Town

 

Angels Flight, 3rd and Hill Street circa 1910. Note the "vegetarian cafeteria" on the right. 

 
Angels Flight, 3rd and Hill Streets circa late 60s.

 

Angels Flight car Olivet being placed back on the tracks, November, 2008.

Angels Flight reopens Monday, March 15, reports blogdowntown. As the press release says "Bring quarters." Meanwhile, CurbedLA notes that a soft opening on Saturday, continued today, Sunday.

After nine years, Downtown has changed. Maybe the changes around Bunker Hill are not as dramatic as previous opening and reopening days, but it is a different urban core. Now the question is, how can Angels Flight it be part of Art Walk?

[KPCC]

Photos from Metro Library and Archives flickr set [Angels Flight]

Political Shade

  

New Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez held his swearing-in ceremony in sunny Little Tokyo. It was a good thing the programs were printed on good paper stock. [blogdowntown]

ADD: Interesting comments going on at blogdowntown. A few are not happy that the original post did not include that John A. Pérez is the now the highest ranking openly-Gay official in the State of California

Art Walk Add Ons in the Arts District

Art Walk after parties are a growing cottage industry, often packed with people crowded in small spaces having a cocktail talking about how Gallery Row bars are too crowded with people drinking. Arts District offers these:

• Jerico will have a  “mellow mixer” with Blues music  at 410 Boyd Street from 9:30 till whenever.

•  EVFA’s  “The Garden Party” is billed as an “original setting with a great feeling that can only be had in The Arts District.” It’s a new location, 209 S. Garey St, between 2nd and 3rd just east of Alameda.  Doors open at 9:30pm. 

•  Not quite an after-party (I think).  Still,  X Repertory Theatre is holding a wardrobe clearance sale tonight, from 5:00 PM - 10pm. Long list of  items are priced under 5 bucks.

Here's my Art Walk Preview at blogdowntown.

Newhart Extra

Memorial for Raimund J. Abraham Held At SCI-Arc

 

Professionals, faculty, and students attended a Friday memorial honoring the life, work, and attitude of architect Raimund J. Abraham, the visiting faculty member who died just after midnight Thursday. Abraham had  given a lecture at SCI-Arc on Wednesday evening, hours before a fatal car accident at 5th and Main. SCI-Arc Director Eric Owen Moss, pictured at the podium, opened the afternoon memorial with a slide show that included photos of Abraham interacting with students. 

The final lecture ended with Abraham specifically telling students in the audience that the alternative to practice the profession "means you don't have to become a slave in a corporate office or groupie of a celebrity architect, because all you need is a piece of paper, a pencil and the desire to make architecture."

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