Under the City

The portion of Chinatown once at El Pueblo was long rumored to have tunnels deep below the city, and according to El Pueblo staff, that is nothing but a rumor. Visitors continue to ask to see them. Then there's the tunnels that are a surprise. Seems there's a massive underground artery for pedestrians, as Cecilia Rasmussen reports in the LATImes:

One of the tunnels existed in the early 20th century, connecting a long-gone county jail to a demolished red-sandstone county courthouse.

The surviving passageways run under a clutch of government buildings -- the Hall of Justice, the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center, the Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration, the Hall of Records and the Stanley Mosk Courthouse.

In their time, the tunnels have been used for the secret transportation of mobsters, murderers and more than a billion dollars in cash.