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big dave location: SoCal Gender: Male \| \|	A Visit to Old Los Angeles < on 12/10/2009 6:52 AM >

	Thanks to a friend for this link. http://www.csulb.e...inthor/socal2.html This multiple page tour takes you through Main, Broadway, Hill, and other streets in Los Angeles during the break of the century. Ive looked at it a couple of times since the link was sent to me. Love it! An armed society, is a polite society. So lets get to it!

Rockinbuss location: Orange County Gender: Male You're so money and you don't even know it! \|	Re: A Visit to Old Los Angeles <Reply # 1 on 12/10/2009 12:03 PM >

	NICE!! do yourself a favor Dave and look up the Bunker Hill Project. If you're into old Los Angeles, that's the place to start! Living in the past, one day at a time.

Hypa location: Los Angeles, CA Gender: Male \|	Re: A Visit to Old Los Angeles <Reply # 2 on 12/12/2009 7:21 PM >

	Thanks for posting this!

SirJinx location: Los Angeles Area Gender: Male \|	Re: A Visit to Old Los Angeles <Reply # 3 on 12/12/2009 11:51 PM >

	I have a question regarding the lighted sidewalks in Los Angeles. They no longer light up, but they used to in the old days. Now you just see the clear glass over parts of the sidewalk. My question is this. How would you access those sidewalk lights? If they were done from the ground floor, I don't see any way to "pop them out." If they were done underground, then that means there are access tunnels? Just food for thought. People are weird.

RomanKam

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Re: A Visit to Old Los Angeles
<Reply # 4 on 4/13/2010 10:22 PM >

Posted by SirJinx
I have a question regarding the lighted sidewalks in Los Angeles. They no longer light up, but they used to in the old days. Now you just see the clear glass over parts of the sidewalk.

My question is this. How would you access those sidewalk lights? If they were done from the ground floor, I don't see any way to "pop them out."

If they were done underground, then that means there are access tunnels?

Just food for thought.

I just read this post. Interesting, NYC has glass brick sidewalks so the sunlight lights up the basements. I saw the same thing in the older parts of Seattle which has a historic underground tour as the old part of town was elevated because of flooding from the sea. So everything on the ground level moved up one floor and the ground level became the basement.

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Re: A Visit to Old Los Angeles
<Reply # 5 on 4/13/2010 11:52 PM >

Posted by RomanKam
I saw the same thing in the older parts of Seattle which has a historic underground tour as the old part of town was elevated because of flooding from the sea.

Plumbing issues, not the sea. Seattle is on hills, and the plumbing got backed up pretty bad, so they raised the street level.

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morsmordre

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Re: A Visit to Old Los Angeles
<Reply # 6 on 4/15/2010 4:10 AM >

My question is this. How would you access those sidewalk lights? If they were done from the ground floor, I don't see any way to "pop them out."

They're done from the surface. I live in downtown, and sometimes run across city workers fixing the broken ones. Unfortunately, there's no tunnel or anything--the hollow part is only a couple feet deep.

earthworm

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Re: A Visit to Old Los Angeles
<Reply # 7 on 4/15/2010 9:47 PM >

Posted by morsmordre

They're done from the surface. I live in downtown, and sometimes run across city workers fixing the broken ones. Unfortunately, there's no tunnel or anything--the hollow part is only a couple feet deep.

not always though, often it goes to the basements of buildings. Can be a fifteen foot drop.

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Re: A Visit to Old Los Angeles
<Reply # 8 on 4/15/2010 10:44 PM >

Posted by earthworm

not always though, often it goes to the basements of buildings. Can be a fifteen foot drop.

yeah, just enough room for a fire extinguisher prank right?

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robk700 location: Los Angeles / D.C. Gender: Male \|	Re: A Visit to Old Los Angeles <Reply # 9 on 4/15/2010 10:49 PM >

	Dave, this is great. Thanks for sharing this.

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