The last I heard of Angels’ Flight, after they got it going again in the 90s, was that there had been a fatal accident, and it was closed. My recollection is that when I was in downtown LA in 2001, it was not running.
Good to know that it is running.
“Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) and Della Street (Barbara Hale) ride Angels Flight in the 1966 episode of Perry Mason entitled “The Case of the Twice-Told Twist” in which Mason’s car was stripped in a parking lot adjacent to the upper end of the funicular.”
Also the only Perry Mason episode (before the later movies) filmed in color, I believe.
There was apparently a second, less famous funicular railway in the Bunker Hill section of downtown LA called Venus Flight or something like that.
Some have noted that Chandler wrote of walking along Court Street where “the funicular railway comes struggling up the yellow clay bank from Hill Street”, and say that Chandler was wrong, Angel’s Flight went up to Olive Street, not Court Street. But I read somewhere that Chandler might actually have been referring to the second one.
Off, I have never heard of any reference to Venus flight after a lifetime in LA. I may have missed it but ...
Googling only yields one reference: this thread.