Photo: Diane Edwardson, May 13, 2013. The secret to walking big public staircases is to not look up. If you look up it's all over. (Click on photo to enlarge.)
The Big Parade is May 18-19, 2013. More info: http://bigparadela.tumblr.com/
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.