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johnfowles · 02-21-2006, 12:32 PM

Thanks to "closet canadian" John for reproducing the interesting (to me at least) essay that he had sent to me privately:I suggested he post it to the topic because I thought it deserved a wider audience as I was sure some corfidians other than those blessed fans in SoCal would like to read about the resort and the trolley system. It now turns out that Sheryl's disparaging remark about it being 1899 not 1999 was pretty close to the truth
1999 was the probable date that the 3 jpegs were made and/or uploaded to the LA Public Library site.
John said in part
"Scottish engineer by the name of David MacPherson"
I googled for him and found at:-
http://hikertechnologies.com/echomt_gson.htm
a picture of his 93 year old grandson
and also found on that hiking site this page:-
http://hikertechnologies.com/em_trolley_wheels.htm
which contains this photograph of the remains of one trolley

Notice the snow-plow front end.
(to be fair this trolley was for going up a mountain not downtown LA as such)
and on:-
http://hikertechnologies.com/echomttn.htm#Thumbs
is this photo of the Echo Mountain Resort

view showing the resort in its heyday, circa 1896
John Fowles
here endeth today's archeology and geography lessons ladles and jellyspoons

[ February 21, 2006, 11:37: Message edited by: johnfowles ]

02-21-2006, 12:32 PM	#13
johnfowles Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: New Jersey U.S.A. ex UK and Canada Posts: 4,846	Thanks to "closet canadian" John for reproducing the interesting (to me at least) essay that he had sent to me privately:I suggested he post it to the topic because I thought it deserved a wider audience as I was sure some corfidians other than those blessed fans in SoCal would like to read about the resort and the trolley system. It now turns out that Sheryl's disparaging remark about it being 1899 not 1999 was pretty close to the truth 1999 was the probable date that the 3 jpegs were made and/or uploaded to the LA Public Library site. John said in part "Scottish engineer by the name of David MacPherson" I googled for him and found at:- http://hikertechnologies.com/echomt_gson.htm a picture of his 93 year old grandson and also found on that hiking site this page:- http://hikertechnologies.com/em_trolley_wheels.htm which contains this photograph of the remains of one trolley Notice the snow-plow front end. (to be fair this trolley was for going up a mountain not downtown LA as such) and on:- http://hikertechnologies.com/echomttn.htm#Thumbs is this photo of the Echo Mountain Resort view showing the resort in its heyday, circa 1896 John Fowles here endeth today's archeology and geography lessons ladles and jellyspoons [ February 21, 2006, 11:37: Message edited by: johnfowles ]