This month’s cover features a postcard of Angel's Flight and Elk Building, Los Angeles, CA, circa 1901-1910. The Angels Flight Railway began operating in 1901. Located at 3rd and Hill Streets in downtown Los Angeles, it used a funicular system of two counterbalanced cars moving up and down parallel tracks. The cars were originally painted white but were repainted to black and orange in 1930. In 1959, Angels Flight was slated for demolition as part of the Bunker Hill Urban Renewal Project, but community support succeeded in delaying the dismantling until 1969. Restoration and reconstruction efforts began in 1995.

The image is part of the Werner von Boltenstern Postcard Collection at Loyola Marymount University. The collection features a selection of postcards that provide a considerable breadth of coverage of California. Learn more at https://digitalcollections.lmu.edu/collec