These two women look down onto a dizzying scene of downtown Los Angeles in the 1930s. They’re overlooking “Angel’s Flight,” a streetcar line that was built in 1901 to carry pedestrians on Third Street up the steep hill from Hill Street to Olive, on the top of Bunker Hill. [Millard Sheets (United States, 1907-1989), Angel’s Flight, 1931, Gift of Mrs. L. M. Maitland] #angelsflight #losangeles #lacma
