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The Man in the High Tower

Just above the tourist trap of Hollywood Boulevard is a beautiful neighborhood with the most scenic stairway walk in Los Angeles.

Posted byJohn PerryJuly 2, 2020October 2, 2020Posted inCentral LA, Neighborhoods, Red Line, WalksTags:high tower, hollywood, hollywood boulevard, hollywood bowl, hollywood hills, la, los angeles, metro, Red Line, scenic, siege of fort anthony, stairs, stairway, stairway walk, transit, walk1 Comment on The Man in the High Tower

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Since we're going to be stuck inside a while longer, we thought we'd share a weird bit of LA transportation history. Back in the 1970s, there was a proposal to build an elevated "People Mover" (yes, much like the one that used to run at Disneyland) over the streets of Downtown. The original proposal was for a line running from Union Station to the convention center, via a tunnel through Bunker Hill. But by 1980, this was scaled down to a very short east-west line using a narrow tunnel, through what are now the parking garages of the Wells Fargo Center and Cal Plaza. The tunnel was actually built, although it was only wide enough to accommodate cars going in one direction, and it was abandoned when funding for the project was cut by the new Reagan administration.

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