Does anyone have the details regarding the changes made to the Angels Flight station up on Olive Street?
Here are the basics that I know (or think I know).
When Angels Flight started about 1901, the Olive Street station was just a small shelter.
I think this may be it next to the Elks building.
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About 1910, this beautiful station was built. Here is a photo, which I believe Michael Ryerson
posted (sorry if it was someone else).
Here is where I start to get lost. By the early 1920's, the station was down to about one third of its size.
What happened? It appears in this photo that the bottom of some of the pillars were still in place.
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Then, maybe sometime in the 1930's or 1940's (again I don't know for sure), someone with absolutely no architectural
ability tacked on the ugly addition which remains to this day.
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Does anyone know what happened to the 1910 station and why was it never restored?
ER - Pretty ironic that the movie sphinx also got buried in sand and had to be discovered by archaeologists.