Look closer.
Los Angeles
The original neon signage running along the Broadway and Hill Street entrances — hand-bent tubing in overlapping reds and yellows, some of it dating to Ira Yellin's 1980s restoration and some older, all of it still lit against the market's open ceiling during operating hours.
Los Angeles
The ornamental arch spanning the Hill Street entrance carries the name "ANGELS FLIGHT" in raised lettering — the same arch that greeted passengers at the original 1901 station and was recovered from outdoor storage in Gardena before the 1996 reconstruction.
Los Angeles
The cast-iron birdcage elevators on the atrium floor — open-grille cars wrapped in wrought-iron scrollwork, their shafts rising through all five stories against the glazed brick walls.
Los Angeles
Embedded in the mosaic surfaces of the towers, recognizable mid-century soft drink bottles — some still showing the raised lettering of 7 Up, Squirt, Bubble Up, and Canada Dry logos — pressed whole or in fragment into the concrete.
New York City
The turquoise constellation mural covering the arched ceiling of the Main Concourse, where Orion, Aquarius, and the surrounding zodiac figures are painted as a reversed mirror image — east and west transposed — of the actual night sky.
