Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal
1939-1989
Constructed by the Southern Pacific, Santa Fe and Union Pacific Railroads, opened on May 7, 1939. It was considered to be the most impressive railroad station of its type in the entire west.
In it's heyday the terminal covered 52 acres, employed 1,100 persons, served 56 trains per day, and handled 23 million sacks of mail annually.
Through the portals of this historic edifice have passed the great and the near-great of the world.
Marker can be reached from North Alameda Street near Cesar Chavez Avenue, on the right when traveling north.
Courtesy hmdb.org
