LAist: Fire on Sunset

hearattackandvine

Fri, 15 Jul 2005 16:26:58 -0800

Good call on the Gardner Junction. The diagonal Pacific Electric right-of-way is also evident near the Southwest corner of Hollywood & La Brea Blvds.

Will

Fri, 15 Jul 2005 15:25:17 -0800

Excellent!

Mike

Fri, 15 Jul 2005 15:12:00 -0800

Here's a clearer shot of the "footprint" of the r-o-w as it cuts through the neigborhoods on either side of the intersection. http://maps.google.com/maps?q=los+angeles&ll=34.096670,-118.352215&spn=0.006829,0.010090&t=k&hl=en

Will

Fri, 15 Jul 2005 14:22:44 -0800

That's really interesting. I actually had noticed that there are some strange angles at that intersection. Thanks for the cool info!

Mike

Fri, 15 Jul 2005 13:41:30 -0800

"The corner of Gardner and Sunset is a special corner. Actually, it looks pretty ordinary." The corner may be ordinary, but the intersection isn't. Notice the diaganol formed by the parking lots on the northeast and southwest corner of intersection. This was the former private right-of-way for the Pacific Electric Hollywood line, where it intersected Sunset. This area was called Gardner Junction, because in the early days, another line broke off from this point and headed down Sunset to Laurel Canyon. Here's a pic of the intersection in 1927, with a streetcar heading towards the southwest corner... http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics16/00007753.jpg