[westcork]

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

Here's an associated press photograph I found the other day on ebay. I am confused by the circular 'lookout' area that's located
just to the left of the dotted line (a probable landslide area).



found on ebay

above: Does anyone know the name of this 'turnabout' lookout area?



below: The information on the reverse side of the associated press photograph doesn't mentioned this 'lookout' point.


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Originally Posted by westcork

That was an incredible landslide... I think I read somewhere there was a water main break that caused the slide. But that may have been another event in the same location a few years later.


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Oh.... it's called "Point Grand View"
http://www.flickr.com/photos/3208065...n/photostream/


1966 Existing facilities in Elysian Park by Deb Grantham, on Flickr


From the 37th Annual Report of the Board of Water and Power Commissioners of the City of Los Angeles:
http://www.monobasinresearch.org/his...nualreport.pdf

I found a couple of pictures on LAPL that are not curated in the database. These appear to be the reservoir and the initial landslide...


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