Welcome back to L A unscripted OG Special as we travel back in time to show you the amazing places still thriving today . One of the most beautiful train stations in the country is right here in downtown Los Angeles and it's been serving hundreds of thousands of travelers since 1939 . Your station is alive and well and entertaining and vibrant .
I'm De and tonight we're taking you back in time with . So Cog Los Angeles itself is a pretty young city . So if your business has been here for 50 years , you're old , just like me .
We'll be right back . Welcome back to L A unscripted OG Special as we travel back in time to show you the amazing places still thriving today . One of the most beautiful train stations in the country is right here in downtown Los Angeles and it's been serving hundreds of thousands of travelers since 1939 .
I actually used to come into this building when it was a post office when I was quite young . I'm from Echo Park , born and raised in Los Angeles . I , you know , I'm proud of it .
The station opened in May 3 of 1939 . The 1940 census of Los Angeles said we had just about a million people on May 3 through five of 1939 over 500,000 people showed up for the opening of the station . That is how dramatically important this station was and continues to be unto today .
