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!
EchoPark.Net is back with a blog-powered 7th version of the Echo Park community website.
First off I want to thank Angeleno Heights resident David Gee for setting up the WordPress software on my server! David’s offer of assistance ended the hiatus and motivated me to sit down and figure out how to manipulate, through trial and a lot of error, the CSS code that I’ve never played with before. (more…)
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…)
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…)
First off I want to thank Angeleno Heights resident David Gee for setting up the WordPress software on my server! David’s offer of assistance ended the hiatus and motivated me to sit down and figure out how to manipulate, through trial and a lot of error, the CSS code that I’ve never played with before.
What you see is a couple of days worth of messing around with the look of the site by modifying Sadish Balasubramanian’s very clean C4M theme more to my liking. I’ve retained the blue lake theme but dumped the always disliked blue font. I’ll be manipulating the site some more, making some subtle tweaks here and there and adding a Flickr powered photo sidebar very soon. (more…)
A design has been produced for a pioneering £120,000 children’s eco-park, which would be the first of its kind in Norfolk.
Officers at Norwich City Council worked with children from Sewell Park College and Catton Primary School to draw up the vision for the revamp of St Clements Park in Catton.
The aim is for it to make use of local, natural, materials and provide an alternative way of play for youngsters by offering something different to the usual boisterous, active play which parks usually focus on.
The design includes a willow tunnel, a sand pit, boulders, a look out tower, wildflowers, mounds and long grass with paths mown through it and would have easy access for wheelchair users and families with pushchairs.
Paul Nicholson, children, young people and play manager at City Hall, explained: “It is based around green principles, using local materials such as wood and boulders. (more…)
Los Angeles, Oct 9 (EFE) .- Echo Park, an area traditionally occupied by Latinos and is now changing its image with modern apartments for executives, has been named one of the “Best Neighborhood” in America.
The designation adopted by the American Planning Association (APA English) places the district as one of the “10 Best Neighborhoods” of the nation, renowned for the excellence of their homes, streets and public spaces.
“Echo Park is one of the brightest lights in a city full of stars …”, said Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, in making the announcement Wednesday of the name. (more…)
“Echo Park Area had disappeared from their world. As a child, had lived for a time with his mother in Apartments Sir Palmer … but times had not been happy for her or him, and now almost totally disappeared his memory. ”
In 2002 when Harry Bosch quit the LAPD (Police Department Los Angeles) records photocopied some cases failed to resolve at the time and continued to haunt him. One of the records that he took home was that of Marie Gesto, who disappeared in 1993. Despite suspecting for years the son of a prominent businessman, he could not prove his involvement in the crime. (more…)
Author: Brian Herbert
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Genre: English
ISBN: 0340837489
Publication Date: Sep 2006
“Hunters of Dune” and the concluding volume, “Sandworms of Dune,” bring together the great story lines and beloved characters in Frank Herbert’s classic Dune universe, ranging from the time of the Butlerian Jihad to the original Dune series and beyond. Based directly on Frank Herbert’s final outline, Which lay hidden in a safe-deposit box for a decade, these two volumes will finally answer the urgent questions Dune fans have been debating for two decades. At the end of “Chapterhouse: Dune” - Frank Herbert’s final novel - a ship carrying the gholas of Duncan Idaho, Sheeana (a young woman who can control Sandworms), and a crew of various refugees escapes into the uncharted galaxy, Fleeing from the monstrous Honored Matres, dark counterparts to the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood. (more…)
Madrid .- Michael Connelly, American author of famous novel, has picked up in “Echo Park” Harry Bosch, the legendary character who embodies a Los Angeles detective in many of his works, before retiring finally in a book whose singularity is the exploration of pure evil. ”
The American author Michael Connelly crime novel after the interview with Efe during the presentation of his new book, “Echo Park”, a story in which his most famous character, Detective Harry Bosch has a chance to reopen case solved in the past.
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