I went back to Olvera St today, supposedly the oldest part of Los Angeles. Much of what is there was actually constructed in the 1930s to be a historic street, so it isn’t quite as authentic as it might be. But it does have Los Angeles’s oldest house, The Avila Adobe, built in 1818. It is also right next to the city’s oldest church, founded in 1781, Nuestra Señora Reina De Los Angeles (Our Lady, Queen of Angels, pictured) after which the city is named.Olvera St is towards the North-East of Downtown, so to get there I took the bus to Macy’s, then the underground train round to Union Station. So now I can say I’ve been on underground trains in 5 different cities, and have actually arrived at Union Station.
On the way back, when I was waiting for the bus, I caught sight of the Bonaventure hotel again, which has glass elevators on the outside of the building. I decided to wander there and see if I could go up one, and it turned out to have a shopping centre on the lower floors. So nobody minded if some tourist decided to take the lift all the way to the top of the building (although I thought I could sense a sort of “us and them” attitude from the residents). The pictures I got were nothing special, but it was a fun ride.
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