Thursday, October 22, 2015
Red Car Canyon: Not A Park, It Just Looks Like One
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Photo: Jonathan Vandiveer, October 20, 2015. When you're a little kid, a walk through the canyon is a walk through a forest. (Click on photo to enlarge.)
Photo: Diane Edwardson
Photo: Edwardson
Photo: Kleven, 1960.
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
Red Car Property Highlights
- Bobcat Sightings
- Legacy of Failed Development
- Red Car Property Development History
- Map
- Silver Lake's Stonehenge
- 2 Freeway History
- 2 Freeway Sound Walls
- 2 Freeway Terminus Project
- Semi-Tropic Spiritualists' Tract
- Public Staircases
- LA River
- Menlo Property
- Metrolink Rail Yard Pollution
- Monte Sano
- Mudwatch
- Neighborhood Native Plants
- Non-Native Plants
- Neighborhood Wildlife
- Red Tailed Hawk Nest Videos
- Ugly Rooftop Watch
- Corralitas Pits of Doom
Historic Neighborhood Photos
- 1904 - 2015 Historic Fletcher Viaduct
- 1904 Curve North of India St.
- 1905 Red Car Property Forest
- 1922 Hunter Terrace - Elysian Gardens Real Estate Brochure
- 1923 - 1962 Holyland Exhibition Collection
- 1923 Allesandro Ave.
- 1927, 1960, 2001 Riverside & Fletcher
- 1930 Lake View Ave.
- 1934 Earl Street Staircase
- 1937 Melton's Market
- 1938-2008 View from atop Corralitas Drive
- 1950 Snow in Silver Lake
- 1953 - 1987 Clarence Inman Collection
- 1960 Corralitas Drive
- 1960 Grass Fire
- 1960 Semi-Tropic Spiritualists' Tract
- 1962 The 2 Freeway Opens
- Paul Landacre Cabin, Historic Landmark
Photo: Edwardson
Neighborhood Wildlife Photos & Highlights
- All Wildlife Posts
- Alligator Lizard
- Birds
- Black Witch Moth
- Bobcat
- Bugs
- Butterflies
- Cooper's Hawk
- Coyotes
- Fox
- Gopher Snake
- Great Blue Heron
- Hawks
- Hummingbirds
- Jerusalem Cricket
- Kestrel
- Moles
- Opossum
- Owls
- Praying Mantis
- Raccoon
- Red Shouldered Hawk
- Reptiles
- Ring-Necked Snake
- Rodents
- Skunks
- Slender Salamanders
- Snake vs Hawk
- Snakes
- Turkey Vulture
- Unusual Bugs
- White-Lined Sphinx Moth
Photo: Kleven, 1960.
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Who we are
- Corralitas Red Car 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
Links
- Atwater Village Newbie's Red Car Project
- Backwards Beekeepers
- Big Parade LA
- City of Los Angeles 311 Smartphone App
- Electric Railway Historical Association
- LAFD Red Flag Alerts
- Living with Wildlife
- MTA State Route 2 Freeway Terminus Project
- North East Trees
- Northeast LA Residents For Clean Air Coalition
- Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society
- Red Car Trolley Glendale Line
- Semi-Tropic Spiritualists' Tract
- Silver Lake Improvement Association
- Silver Lake Neighborhood Council
- Silver Lake Reservoirs Conservancy
- Silver Lake Residents Association
- The Eastsider LA
- The River Project
- Trust for Public Land
- What's That Bug?
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Contact: redcarproperty@gmail.com
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.
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