Lost Tunnels of Broadway & Hill St. (Broadway on My Mind #16)

Gordon Pattison discusses life on Bunker Hill.

The countours of the dirt patch at the northwest corner of Second and Hill provide us with one of the few remaining vestiges of the Hill's original topography. 

The Los Angeles-Pacfic Railway petitioned the City in 1906 to construct two single-bore tunnels; one ran up Hill from roughly First to Temple, the other from just above Temple to Sunset.  They opened in September, 1909.   September 1913 s... Read more

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This is the northern portal of the double bore Hill Street Tunnel

Southern Portal Hill Street Tunnel (single bore)

Work began on the Broadway Tunnel in November 1899.  When opened in August of 1901, is was 760' long, 40' wide, and 22' high.  (With the exception of the Fairmount Park Tunnel in Philadelphia, Broadway was the widest in the world—but th... Read more

North Portal Broadway Tunnel

Northern Portal Hill Street Tunnel (single bore).