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, December 9, 2009. While some bemoan the mostly non-native & non-historic guerrilla garden at the historic viaduct footings, most neighbors welcome anything that discourages graffiti vandals and dumping on the Red Car Property. (Click on photo to enlarge.)
