Throughout the neighborhood, hidden public staircases connect adjacent streets to the Red Car Property. Unlike the Corralitas and Silver Lake Ave. staircases, the hidden staircases are often in better condition than the well-used public staircases.
Photo: Diane Edwardson, 2008. (Click on photo to enlarge.)
In some cases, neighbors fenced off hidden staircases to prevent adventurous and criminal activity. Neighbors taking stewardship over the staircases, while leaving them open to the public, seems to help prevent some of the problems once associated with the hidden staircases.
Photo: Diane Edwardson, 2008. (Click on photo to enlarge.)
Some of the hidden staircases end abruptly into a 16-foot drop to the canyon floor below, because countless tons of earth were removed from the Red Car Property when they built the nearby freeways.
