Welcome to Los Angeles

Very cool. As a downtown resident I really like these tidbits. I have been to the LA Library website & USC archives. Where else can I do research to find info like this?

Thanks again - your blog is a necessity in my daily routine!

The “no pedestrians” sign in front of the Welcome to Los Angeles sign is hilarious.

Agreed. My first thought was the post was going to be about the irony of the juxtaposition of “WELCOME TO LOS ANGELES” & “NO PEDESTRIANS”

Interesting, nonetheless.

I remember that Greyhound station from back in the 1980’s. It got so bad with bums, etc. that you couldn’t get much past the ticket booth area without a valid ticket. I got in the habit of walking real fast to/from the station when I used it….

Between 1963 to 1967, my father an I made trips to visit LA relatives during Thanksgiving. I remember of old terminal for congestion created by hundreds of people standing in seemingly endless lines to first to buy a ticket and then the wait to get on a bus that would take us back to SF. But, there was also the anticipation of getting the front seat on the unpper deck of the scenic crusier. We made it a couple of times.

Perhaps the strangest development in the modern era of Downtown L.A. was when the nation’s largest bus transportation firm moved it’s downtown operation deep into the industrial district. I don’t know if the Greyhound company owns the property near Seventh and Mateo. But it is interesting, in that if one rides on Amtrak from the San Juaquin Valley to Los Angeles, they are transferred from train to Greyhound bus at Bakersfield and they are delivered to the beautifull environs of Union Station in short order. If one were to proceed to the Greyhound Bus terminal in San Francisco, Sacramento, Las Vegas or San Diego and board a bus to Los Angeles, would they be transported to Union Station??? or Seventh and Mateo??? Of course there is another bus company with routes in and out of L.A. However, the city parents and the redevelopment agency allowing the abandonment of the major bus terminal on Los Angeles Street was a major error. Anyone who buys a condominium near the former LACE gallery on Industrial Street will soon realize they have made a major mistake.

Norbie,

That bus between Bakersfield and Los Angeles is available only for people who are to travel on Amtrak between L.A. and Bakersfield. You can’t do it on Greyhound, only through Amtrak and only between L.A. and Bakersfield.