{"id":8792,"date":"2019-10-30T07:13:17","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T07:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/?p=8792"},"modified":"2023-07-10T05:24:44","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T05:24:44","slug":"angels-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/misc\/angels-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Angels Flight\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8AuPWmnRotA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For my last day in Los Angeles I was determined to cross a few items off my bucket list, and in order to get there I thought I&#8217;d cross off another: riding Angels Flight, the &#8220;world&#8217;s shortest railway.&#8221; It&#8217;s really a diagonal elevator with two cars that act as counterbalances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On my previous visit to LA I went on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/misc\/historic-downtown-walking-tour\/\">walking tour that included Angels Flight<\/a>, but I didn&#8217;t read the fine print correctly. Although they promised a 50% discount off the $1 fare if you had a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taptogo.net\">TAP card<\/a>, they were not capable of <em>charging<\/em> the fare to a TAP card and required cash payment &#8212; which I didn&#8217;t have on me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This time around I had plenty of quarters left over after going to a fancy new arcade and doing laundry, so I figured I&#8217;d give it another go. In the video above I&#8217;ve documented this quirky, jerky short railway in all its original 1901 glory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well&#8230; sort of. The history of Angels Flight isn&#8217;t quite what you might think. It was originally located at a different location, closed in 1969, and reopened in 1996 at the new space, only to close repeatedly over the years after a fatal accident. You can read <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Angels_Flight\">all the details over at Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Armed with a pocket full of quarters I took the trip up the hill &#8212; only to find they now have a TAP card reader at the ticket booth at the top. Better late than never.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I also took a few photos of Angels Flight:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-f56f613f wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mrericsir\/48983634378\/in\/dateposted\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48983634378_d9f9422c36.jpg\" alt=\"Angel's Flight\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-f56f613f wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mrericsir\/48984194296\/in\/dateposted\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48984194296_588062f1b2.jpg\" alt=\"Angel's Flight\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mrericsir\/48984192766\/in\/dateposted\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48984192766_ba10fdcf7e.jpg\" alt=\"Angel's Flight\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For my last day in Los Angeles I was determined to cross a few items off my bucket list, and in order to get there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","slim_seo":{"title":"Angels Flight - MrEricSir.com","description":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8AuPWmnRotA For my last day in Los Angeles I was determined to cross a few items off my bucket list, and in order to get there I"},"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","autoblue_publish_document":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1250,38,414,222,322],"class_list":["post-8792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-los-angeles","tag-photos","tag-public-transportation","tag-travel","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8792"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9704,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8792\/revisions\/9704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}