List/Grid Monthly Archives: June 2009
Play station 3
Envisaged as a center for digital entertainment, the PlayStation 3 is the era of high-definition television by incorporating a Blu-ray and connectors HDMI. The console has a hard disk, an…
American Planning Association of Echo Park
Echo Park is home to a thriving diverse community of artists and working class families and had to work twice as other communities to create, maintain and defend their great…
Avenues of Neighborhood
This newsletter has already highlighted the most dramatic changes name from Echo Park’s past: Sunset Boulevard was previously known as Reservoir Street, while Glendale served as Lake Shore Boulevard south…
The Echo Park Historical Society
They’ve set to date! The Echo Park Historical Society is about to produce its first-ever EPHS 2003 Historic Home Tour, scheduled to take place one day only, on Sunday, November…
Immigrants from Europe
Echo Park saw the passing of an era this summer. For the first time in 92 years, a pair of cottages on Morton Avenue will no longer be in the…
A Landmark Lake
Echo Park Lake Los Angeles is a true icon. Its image has been captured in photographs, movies, murals, even in promotional postcards sent across the country in the early part…
Echo Park Lake : The First Quarter Century
Echo Park did not start out as a man-made lake. Instead, its earliest use by the city was as a reservoir, storing water in a section sometimes known as the…
Los Angeles’ First Echo Park
Elysian Park is the city’s oldest public park and, at 575-acres, the second largest after Griffith Park. It is home to numerous historic sites, including the Los Angeles Police Academy…
Baxter Stairway
Climbing the more than 230 steps will leave you in awe or in cardiac arrest.The top of the stairs is across the street from Elysian Park and its many walking…
Echo Park Excursion
The center and Lake Echo Park This tour includes some of the most prominent buildings and monuments in Echo Park, as Jensens Recreation Center, Angelus Temple, and of course the…