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Originally Posted by Martin Pal
There are still some of those around. There was one somewhere in East Hollywood I came across a few years ago. My thought was that I would not use it! Lol!
There's one at the Hollywood Bowl to cross under Highland. It's large, crammed with people when events are over, not at all pleasant, and if you're tall you have to bend your head down or to the side to walk through it. It's not much over six feet high, if that.
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It seems that 70 pedestrian subways were proposed in LA proper alone, but I wonder how many were actually built...
LAT April 15, 1925
I thought there were more prior NLA posts on them, but I only found these on the one at Hollywood Bllvd & New Hampshire and another in Beverly Hills...
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=6699
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=5948
CBD: You may want to believe that life was better in the good old days, but from all the old issues of the Times and the Herald that I've read, crime was just as rampant then as now. Robbery was very common in all parts of L.A., as were murder and rape. I believe the school crossings began to be shot down by the "idyllic" '50s because of crime.