automobile
Going With The Flow
Submitted by kim on Fri, 04/04/2008 - 17:48.Location: 255 South Bunker Hill Avenue
Date: August 24, 1937
Traffic expert Edmund C. Easton of this address spoke today before the Police Commission. Based on his fifteen years of study of automotive congestion in Los Angeles and other large cities, Easton advised the following measures for easing gridlock: street clearance through adequate design, regulation and police enforcement, trolleys given right-of-way, one-way streets, and controlling both jaywalking and automobiles "shooting" into cross-sections. The Chief is considering his suggestions, and we are certain that by 1940, traffic jams will be but a distant memory to our burg.
A Stroll Cut Short
Submitted by kim on Fri, 04/04/2008 - 17:44.Location: 255 South Bunker Hill Avenue
Date: January 22, 1918
Driving Angels Flight
Submitted by kim on Sat, 03/29/2008 - 01:15.Location: 300 Block Hill Street
Date: September 1, 1934
We cannot know how many times mechanic Herbert Stockwell gazed from his window at 316 Clay Street over the steps adjoining the Angels Flight Railway and dreamed, but this was the night he partook of some liquid courage and attempted to drive down the steps. He crashed about 50 feet shy of Hill Street, knocking his teeth out and bloodying his nose, and was discovered wandering confusedly by Officer Hull. Hull took him to Georgia Street police station, where Stockwell was charged with grand theft auto and drunk driving. The wrecked car belonged to Doris George, wife of a physician in the Black Building at Fourth and Hill.




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