LAist: Baxter Street Makes Me Cry Like a Little Girl

rhoortiz

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:46:59 -0800

What's amazing though is that 3 year old and 4 year old weren't scare, why were you?

jensaxon

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:08:34 -0800

When I was a teenager, and had my first car--my friends & I used to pack in and go down Baxter for thrills. Haha-we were dorks, but I still love taking people down that street.

Will Campbell

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:50:08 -0800

Baxter is my favorite street in L.A. Waaaay back in the day when my mom was a distributor for the old Herald Examiner and I didn't have a driver license yet, many were the weekends I used to ride a Yamaha 50cc Champ all the way out to Echo Park from Beverly Hills to fill in delivering papers for sick paperboyz. My favorite thing to do when finished around sunrise was to gun it hard up from Glendale Boulevard up that last stretch of Baxter before the Silver Lake reservoir and if I was lucky catch a little air off the top with nothing but the road dropping away steeply beneath me to the water out beyond and a prayer that I wouldn't land wrong. I never did.

echo

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:16:32 -0800

yes that is a brutal shortcut. its probably funner than most rides in disneyland.

thunderboltfan

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:11:13 -0800

Oh, come on. It's not that bad. I always take Duane, which is almost as steep and probably the other steepie you mentioned, for my shortcut to the worst post office in LA (also known as the Edendale Station on Alvarado.)

Joshua Pressman

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:44:15 -0800

stick subies hooray