I thought you said it was “venus something”, not court flight.
I did. I could not remember what it was actually called, which is why I used the phrase “something like” in my original post. Obviously I was way off on the name.
My point was that people on various websites have claimed that Raymond Chandler, in “The High Window”, had made a mistake by placing Angel’s Flight below Court Street.
The following passage is almost universally claimed (including by the LA Times in at least one article and Wikipedia) to refer to Angel’s Flight, notwithstanding that Angel’s Flight went up to Olive Street, not Court Street:
“I parked at the end of the street, where the funicular railway comes struggling up the yellow clay bank from Hill Street, and walked along Court Street to the Florence Apartments.”
The standard explanation for why Chandler said “Court Street” instead of “Olive Street” was that Chandler for whatever reason named the wrong street.
But there was a funicular that went up to Court Street. Also, if you look at this photo of Court Flight, you can see the exposed clay bank, which Angel’s flight in its original location wedged between a building and tunnel did not seem to have.
My point was that I had read somewhere (probably more than five years ago) that there in fact was a second funicular at Court Street, so that Chandler was correct, and it was likely a second funicular, not Angel’s flight, that Chandler was referring to.