Inside Angels Flight Station House: The Morning “Shiftkicker” and More…

At or near their outsets, I usually like to get my shifts at Angels Flight energized up and into cruise control with a musical selection that I’ve dubbed the “morning shiftkicker,” and sometimes I record it. In this case there is that rather unique musical selection (starts with my intro at about the 14:00 mark …

Angels Flight Articles From Waaaay Back When

Mindblown!Look What I Found! Courtesy the California Digital Newspaper Collection of UC Riverside’s Center for Bibliographical Studies & Research: An article on page 8 from the December 31, 1901, Los Angeles Herald newspaper: “Angels’ Flight Is Given A Test.” UCR’s fancee shmancee website even transcribes the textesses so I don’t have to — yer welcome: …

The Courtship of Eddy’s Street

So being a perpetual nut for all things Angels Flight I was bound to discover that there is indeed an Eddy Street in Los Angeles — Northridge to be specific. Actually there’s two Eddy Streets as shown below in the Google Map photo of the area around the instersection of Reseda Boulevard and Parthenia Street. …

A Paige Turner

If I had to name a Second Favorite Baseball Player of All Time behind Jackie Robinson, it would be Satchel Paige. No doubt. I’ve known of and about him almost as long as I’ve known about baseball and he was truly amazing. As it just so happens out there on the internut, I was moseying …

Watch This

After posting yesterday about the long-missing vintage watch rather accidentally found as a result of a plush toy rescue, I brought out its matching partner for a reunion and then did a little e-digging to find out more details about the dynamic duo. To accomplish that I had to remove the mechanisms from the cases …

Finally Found: A Photo Of Hunter’s Books

Until yesterday, when this image rather randomly popped up on my Facebook feed from a group I follow, I’d made countless unsuccessful attempts to find any photographs of a place I worked during my junior and senior year in high school that was so near and dear to me: Hunter’s Books. Situated on the southwest …

April 29, 1992

As a San Fernando Valley resident at the time and far removed from the greater LA basin, it’s rather ironic how I came to experience what I did on April 29, 1992, and where; roughly a 4.5 mile straight line to the riot’s epicenter at Florence and Normandie. I was a student at Pierce College …