Talk:Angels Flight/Archive 1

Reopening date?

 * "Angels Flight is currently scheduled to reopen in late 2006, though a firm reopening date has yet to be announced." 

It is now October 24, 2006. What's the status of the reopening?


 * I wanted to know the same thing and tried a quick google to find out. There was a recent article in one of the LA newspapers, but this only discussed a possible change of ownership.  I could not find anything definite, and hence left that part of the article alone.


 * Needs a contributor from LA, methinks... EdJogg 23:56, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

In popular culture?
I know that I've seen at least one silent film that used Angels Flight as a location, but it's been so long ago that is all I remember. Does anyone else know which film, or at least which film star(s) might have been involved? Blank Verse 14:46, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

The film was called All Jazzed Up from the Al Christie Studios. It was shot in 1920 and starred Bobby Vernon and Helen Darling. You can see stills from the movie at www.electricearl.com/af or read about it in the upcoming Arcadia Publishing book Los Angeles's Angels Flight, due out in August.209.247.5.135 (talk) 07:38, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Reopening in 2007
User Threeonezero reports that a 'recent news report on KTLA minutes ago' has indicated that the funicular is due to reopen in Summer 2007, and amended the article accordingly. I tried to find a quotable source for this, but doing so I began to doubt.

It seems to me that there are two threads here.


 * There is a guy called John Welborne, president of the Angels Flight Railway Foundation who own the funicular. Judging from a Google search, he seems to have spent the last two or three years saying the funicular would reopen 'next year'. The report on KTLA may be such an announcement from him, in which case how much credence should we grant it?.


 * There is also a movement to transfer ownership and/or operation from the foundation to the MTA, on the grounds that nothing seems to happening. (See ).

So I think reponing is still pretty uncertain. I'll try and amend the article to convey the above facts. -- Chris j wood 12:04, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
 * It is now Summer 2009, two years after the planned Summer 2007 opening and more than eight years after the accident.
 * What's going on here?
 * If the Angels Flight Railway Foundation isn't interested in operating it, sell it to someone who is. Maybe The Transit Coalition (http://transittalk.proboards.com/index.cgi) could find a way to take over operations? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.100.48.167 (talk) 17:02, 20 June 2009 (UTC)
 * It is now October 2009 and still no official word as to when or if Angels Flight will ever reopen. Will someone please update? Is it gone for good? If so, sell the cars at auction and use the money to install an escalator. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.100.45.171 (talk) 06:43, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

It's now 2009
What's going on? It was supposed to reopen two years ago! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.67.124.238 (talk) 21:21, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
 * It appears to be up and running again. Does anyone have any pictures of the reopening? Did they have a ceremony or was it just like any other normal operating day?173.58.251.147 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 01:14, 15 March 2010 (UTC).

The 1947 Warner Brothers film ‘Infidelity’, directed by Vincent Sherman, with Ann Sheridan, Zachary Scott and Lew Ayes contains one scene involving Angels Flight. Passengers and the compartment interior are seen as the funicular cabin descends to the street below. Crm102b (talk) 03:29, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

Angels Flight - Official web site
Does the group that formerly operated Angels Flight have a website? If so, would someone post a link - I tried Google without any success. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.100.45.171 (talk) 23:32, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

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It says "This page was last modified on 26 October 2010 at 02:15. "  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mhantholz (talk • contribs) 03:43, 30 October 2010 (UTC)

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Funding obtained for repairs
Mayor of Los Angeles announces plan for re-opening. John Nagle (talk) 20:57, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

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