Los Angeles Railway 'G' line |
November 25, 1906 - Los Angeles Times The extension of the Griffin avenue electric line into Montecito Park has been completed, and a regular service will be inaugurated, beginning Monday, November 26. The opening of Montecito Park will be on Saturday, December 1, but an office and agent have been established on the tract so that reservations may be made in advance of the opening. This tract has been the subject of much inquiry on the part of homeseekers and speculators, but the owners preferred not to put it on the market until a first-class street-car service should be installed. Montecito Park is on the right-hand side of the Arroyo Seco looking toward Highland Park, between Avenues 39 and 47, being a part of the famous Sawyer mesa, long looked upon with envious eyes by subdividers and homeseekers. First-class street improvements are being made. The tract is only fifteen minutes' ride from the business center of the city, being much closer in than either Highland Park or Garvanza. The elevation is 450 feet. |
M. E. Johnson & Co. No. 302 H. W. Hellman building, are the owners' agents. |
December 14, 1906 - Los Angeles Times |
December 16, 1906 - Los Angeles Times |
September 1, 1907 - Los Angeles Times The improvement of Montecito Park has been pushed rapidly this summer, and the property is now assuming the appearence of a high-class residence section. Cement curbs and sidewalks have been put in on Griffin avenue and Avenue 43, the two principal streets, which also will be graveled and oiled. The grading has almost been finished. A strong bridge has been built across the Arroyo channel at Avenue 43, and the Griffin-avenue railway extended to Avenue 45. The street work on the remainder of the property is being pushed to completion. City water mains have been laid. Houses have been built. While others are in an advanced stage of construction. On the Montecito Heights property, immediately adjoining an automobile and carriage roadway, two miles in length, has been laid out on the route or the next extension of the Griffin avenue railway, and is completed for about 2000 feet. This roadway is to be widened to sixty feet to accommodate the double-track railway to the top of the hllls, and it is expected the latter will be in operation within twelve months. This, when completed, will be one or the finest scenic railways in the city. |
November 19, 1907 - Los Angeles Times "TWISTER."
MOST CROOKED LINE
Map of the Griffin avenue trolley line extension which, in two miles' length will traverse a straight-line distance of less than three city blocks
GRADING is in progress in East Los Angeles for the crookedest railroad in the world. Compared with it the famous Mt. Tamalpais road, which now holds the squirming record, is as straight as a Mexican's hair. It will take two miles of track to cover a stretch not more than three blocks running north and south and not more than that running east and west.
It is claimed by engineers that there will not be a single straight rail in the two miles of track; every one will be curved.
The road is designed as an extension to the Griffin-avenue street railroad line and will open up for residences the highest tract of land in the city.
The scheme originated with a real estate syndicate which owns a tract of land known as the Montecito Park tract overlooking Pasadena avenue and the Arroyo Seco.
Above the plateau on which this tract is located is a high rolling chain of hills. It separates the tiny, picturesque valley of the arroyo from the valley of the San Gabriel.
From the summit of a ridge, you look down on the one side into Eastlake Park and through a rift in the hills into San Gabriel Valley; on the other side you look down into "Bugalowland," Pasadena, Sycamore Grove, etc.
It is up this chain of hills that Mr. Huntington proposes to build this road.
To gain the high plateau the road wriggles and squirms in and out of canons and gullies and shins along the side of the mountain.
CROOKED AND COSTLY
TWISTS LIKE A SNAKE
AFFORDS FINE VIEW |
August 5, 1914 - CALIFORNIA RAILROAD COMMISSION DECISIONS.
DECISION No. 1711.
REPORT OF THE COMMISSION.
1. Montecito Railroad Company shall sell said stock so as to net said company not less than $45,000.00.
4. The authority hereby given to issue such stock shall apply only to stock issued by said company on or before the first day of January, 1915. The foregoing opinion and order are hereby approved and ordered filed as the opinion and order of the Railroad Commission of the State of California. Dated at San Francisco, California, this 5th day of August, 1914. |
Montecito Railroad Co. | |
Office | 204 Higgins Building. (Operates a local line to Los Angeles) |
President | W.D. Larrabee. 204 Higgins Bldg |
Vice President | M.E. Johnson 204 Higgins Bldg |
Secretary | Chas. P. Brown 204 Higgins Bldg |
Auditor | M.E. Hammond 204 Higgins Bldg |
Purchases Energy | |
Repair Shops at North Griffin Avenue and Montecito Drive | |
1.46 miles | |
3'-6" gauge | |
1 motor car | |
From McGraw Electric Railway List for August, 1918 |