The Corralitas Red Car Property was a private right-of-way through Silver Lake (Los Angeles) for the Pacific Electric interurban streetcar. The “Big Red Cars” ran until 1955 when the Glendale Line was decommissioned for freeway construction. For more than 40 years, a series of developers tried and failed to develop the Corralitas Red Car Property.
It's not a park, it just looks like one.
Photo: Diane Edwardson, March 5, 2010. The young California Black Walnut Trees that escaped last summer's carnage wrought by the City's Lot Cleaning Department, are sprouting fresh growth at the historic viaduct footings. (Click on photo to enlarge.)
