Downtown: The Toluca Subway Yard
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES — It seems today the LA Times caught up with the ongoing back and forth over the Toluca Yard subway portal. I thought I had talked about this last month when Preserve LA did their call to action, but I can't seem to find anything in the archives. I guess I sort of half-responded in my head and the words never made their way here.
Anyway, the Times story -- "Old Tunnel May Be Tagged as Landmark" -- focuses on the idea of the site as an "art park" for graffiti.
The land has sat for decades as a sort of no-man's land
R on May 15, 2007, at 05:00PM – #1
I believe the tunnel cuts off with a concrete wall a few hundred feet in. Other accounts have the foundation of the Union Bank Building(1980s?) on Figueroa as the cutoff (more like "step-on)) of the tunnel.
I have asked the tenants of the Subway Terminal Building before for permission to view the Subway Platform area underneath the building, to no avail. It's one thing I'd like to do before I die.