Archive for the ‘Echo Park’ Category
Wednesday, August 11th, 2010
Recreation and Parks staff has put the finishing touches on the reconstructed Echo Park Lake Bridge, completing their work an entire week before the 29th Annual Lotus Festival.
Deteriorated to the point where it was unsafe to cross, the bridge and island were closed to park users. In the interim, with the exception of the occasional filming or special event, the island has become a de facto bird sanctuary. (more…)
Tags: Echo Park, lake, Lake Bridge, News, Recreation and Parks
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Wednesday, August 11th, 2010
Big fans of the New York Mets, the two Bubo Virginian us behind our house in Elysian Park celebrated the teams win early this morning. Throughout the course of the baseball season only the deep calls of the male owl could be heard after dark and we had feared for the fate of his partner. (more…)
Tags: Bubo Virginian, Elysian Park, Great Horned Owls, New York Mets, The Bird Man
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Wednesday, August 11th, 2010
The closest Michael Conney will get to Echo Park to promote his new mystery Echo Park is South Pasadena… Maybe, just maybe we can convince him to stop in at the Eden dale Library for a reading.
Perhaps an early copy of Echo Park will show up in my mail box for a review too, especially when all the Connolly fans start Go ogling “Echo Park” and they end up here and only find quotes from James Ellroy books! (more…)
Tags: American Cover, Echo Park, Echo Park Book Tour, James Ellroy books, Michael Conney, South Pasadena
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Wednesday, August 11th, 2010
The Hill by its residents, it survived as a semi-rural pocket of modest hillside homes a brief distance from the center of the city. The night-time diorama of light from central Los Angeles proved one of the major attractions of living in this urban woodland where small wildlife–raccoons, possums, birds–abounded in the thicket and chaparral. (more…)
Tags: Bunker Hill, Guess Where Echo Park, Major Attractions, Possums, Wildlife–Raccoons
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Saturday, March 6th, 2010
Need a graphic designer to create your business cards? Or a musician to help you complete a composition? Then look for the upcoming “Made in Echo Park: A Directory of Designers & Creative Services.” (more…)
Tags: a graphic designer, architects, Arts & Crafts, graphic designers, jewelry makers, musicians
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Friday, December 4th, 2009
The LA Times Real Estate section cultivates Gen-X stereotypes in Angeleno Heights!
Our former landlords and old-school Echo Park resident’s Jeb & Sandy lost their Hi-Desert Hide-a-way in last weeks Morongo Valley fire. They fell in love with their little place and shared it’s plantings with us for our desert cabin; we wish them all the best with their inevitable rebuild!
Tags: hip, News
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Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
For the second time in recent memory the City of Los Angeles, in preparation of repaving, has ground away the asphalt along portions of Echo Park Avenue and exposed the long dormant rails of the Echo Park Line.
Some history from the Electric Railway Historical Association:
The Elysian Park Street Railway Company built this line in 1889 on Echo Park Avenue from Temple Street to about 600 feet north of Sunset Boulevard as a horse car line. In the fall of 1890 that part of the line between Temple and Sunset was abandoned and the rails removed. In late 1890 the line was extended about a mile up Echo Park Avenue to Cerro Gordo Street. (more…)
Tags: Echo Park Avenue, Echo Park Line, Red Car Tracks
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Friday, October 2nd, 2009
In bookstores now Scene of the Crime, Photographs from the LAPD Archive may be of limited interest to many but beyond the graphic crime scene photos are the eyes of some talented photographers and a view into Los Angeles’ always crime ridden core. As many will recall the photos were first compiled by locals Merrick Morton and Robin Blackman for an exhibit at their now closed storefront gallery Fototeka. (more…)
Tags: bookstores, crime ridden core, LAPD Archive, limited interest, Merrick Morton, Photographs, talented photographers
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