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This stairway and the stairway on Sunset Drive Stairway have always held a special place for me. After my second attempt at living in Los Angeles, I moved to a small house on Sanborn Avenue, and was introduced to the stairways of Franklin Hills. In a city where no one walked, it seemed so special and strange to have an area with a network of Stairways. I helped make a very un-human place, inviting… and I have enjoyed the stairways ever since.

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A cute little stairway at the end of Hidalgo. Note, that several maps list this as being a full street connecting to Electric.

There is even a lucky resident who has access of their home from the stairway only.

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Don’t tell the people who live here, but this is a freaky (but most likely pleasant) place to live. Cut off from most of Los Angeles with only a small underpass under the 2 Freeway for access, this is truly a forgotten neighborhood.

But you gotta love a neighborhood that has the most jumbo Log Cabins in the world…

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The things crazed old men do. When I stumbled past this little walkway, I really didn’t want to go down the path. It looked very long from my maps, and just how pleasant is a walk along side a freeway. Plus, not knowing what is at the end, I worried a bit about suddenly being in the middle HoboTown or a gang initiation ceremony. And the signs warning about the Coyote Packs and not feeding them left me a little iffy. But I texted the husband and let him know where I was in case I am never seen again or left half eaten below an overpass…

But I survived the walk, and it was much shorter than I though it would be and it opens up to an Urban L.A. Version of the Land That Time Forgot.

I was planning on turning back right away, but there was this guy with a Squirt entering the path, and being a not-so-friendly kinda person myself, thought best to let him go ahead. So I stayed here a bit and explored and rather happy I did. Don’t tell these folks, but this is a freaky little neighborhood. But found a stairway further down at Corralitas Drive, a strange street and Stairway.