Street car tracks unearthed: Blogdowntown reports that digging on Main Street has uncovered some of L.A.'s old street car tracks:
The story of one of Downtown's oddest blocks began in 1919, when Broadway was extended from 10th Street – today known as Olympic – down to Pico. The street's former southern end, a diagonal connection to Main Street, was officially renamed to Broadway Place that same year.
L.A.'s best mini golf: Los Angeles Magazine has a fun video on L.A.'s best miniature golf course, which is apparently Arroyo Seco in South Pasadena (via Curbed):
You can visit a log cabin, roll through the obligatory church, and try your luck with a wishing well in the span of 30 minutes -- plenty of fun without much commitment. The turf is ragged in spots, and while some weather-beaten hazards were recently fixed up, even fresh place can't hide what the place is: a living artifact that vibrates with the memories of a thousand bygone childhoods.
Old Hollywood brothel: Curbed L.A. points out that a gas station/brothel used to be at the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Van Ness Avenue:
This week's revelation comes from the forthcoming "Damn You, Scarlett O'Hara," about the various bedroom shenanigans of Vivien Leigh and her husband Laurence Olivier.
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Photo: Pacific Electric cars emerge from the mile-long Belmont Tunnel west of downtown. The subway ran from 1925 to 1955. Credit: Los Angeles Times