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 July 18, 2015.A Coast Live Oak Sapling has been toughing it out for years amongst the non-native, invasive Arundo on Lot C. It's about 3' tall now. Several times it's been completely cut back to the ground along with the Arundo during brush clearance. Each time it fights back. Every few years someone doing brush clearance recognizes that it's a native oak tree and allows one or two branches to grow.
Photo: Diane Edwardson, July 16, 2015. Maybe in another 100 years it will be as large as its cousin, about 50' north on the property.
Community Residents’ Association for Parks is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization formed in 1997 by our Silver Lake neighborhood. We are dedicated to acquisition and preservation of the Corralitas Red Car Property as a park in partnership with the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy.
Contact: redcarproperty@gmail.com
