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, February 26, 2011. We're running photos of cooler days on the
Red Car Property to cope with the excessive heatwave & insane
humidity. (Click on photos to
enlarge.)
Photo: Diane Edwardson, December 24, 2010. With the current record drought, it's easy to forget how green the Red Car Property used to be when it rained. It doesn't take more than a half inch of rain to make Red Car Canyon Lake reappear. (Yes there were once really big tadpoles in it!)
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
