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…)
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Great Horned Owls Celebrate Dodger Post Season
Wednesday, August 11th, 2010Neighborhood Councils
Friday, December 4th, 2009Sad news of two recent deaths of longtime Echo Park activist.
Julie Rosen, artist and founding member of the Citizens Committee to Save Elysian Park succumb to cancer last week. Julie moved to San Francisco last year to be near her children due to her failing health. Her last among her many deeds for the Citizens Committee was spearheading the drive to install the new children’s play area at Stadium Way and Scott Avenue and another play area on Casanova Terrace on the east side of the Pasadena Freeway. (more…)
A Landmark Lake
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
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 of the 20 th century. After all, what says more than the Echo Park bridge network that reaches from the inner lake’s shore to the island? (more…)
Echo Park Lake : The First Quarter Century
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
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 city’s ” West End . In those years, the hills and canyons that were poised to become their neighborhood were thought of as the city’s west side.
The Los Angeles Canal Reservoir and Reservoir No. 4 Co. formed in 1868. The company obtained water by digging in the ditch that sent water flowing from the Los Angeles River – In the area now known as Los Feliz – along a zigzag path that Emptio into the reservoir. (more…)
Los Angeles’ First Echo Park
Monday, June 8th, 2009
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 and Barlow Hospital, that are linked by miles of walking trails.
In 1769, Gaspar de Portola and Father Juan Crespi camper on the river bank opposite Buena Vista Hill near the North Broadway Bridge entrance to Elysian Park. Yang Na-Indian villagers from the creeks of Solano Canyon and the current location of the Los Angeles Police Academy greet the Spaniards with native refreshments. (more…)
Baxter Stairway
Monday, June 8th, 2009
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 trails. Located on Baxter Street, three blocks east of Echo Park Ave.
Laveta Terrace Stairway:
A wide, elegant stairway with multiple landings that leads to a row of palm trees at the top of the hill. Located on Laveta Terrace, one block east of Echo Park Avenue, north of Sunset Blvd. (more…)
Simons’ Legacy Lives in Meadows and Trails of Elysian Park
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009As EPHS marks the 110 th anniversary of Echo Park Lake , We also honor the 40 th anniversary of a sister
organization: The Citizens Committee to Save Elysian Park. CCSEP was founded by a group of local activists, which was led by Grace E. Simons, who – perhaps more than any other individual – played a role in protecting Elysian Park from the best-laid plans of developers and in providing a template for INFORMS activism that many of us to this day.
Under Simons’ watch CCSEP successfully Fought off encroachments such as oil fields, an airport, a convention center, condominiums and numerous other construction efforts that would have chipped away masses of the park. At about 550 acres, Elysian Park is unique in offering a real experience of the outdoors to hundreds of thousands of hikers, soccer players, bird-watchers, picnic-ers, Wanderers, dogs and the occasional horse. In its present, hard-won form, the park offers solitude, community and beauty to the entire surrounding area. Simons’ most significant loss was in a battle to halt the expansion of the police academy.
Picnic in Elysian Park, LA
Monday, May 4th, 2009Sunday, 23 September 2007
Today was the Picnic by the German club in Los Angeles Elysian Park in LA.Immediately after getting up I was in my third cheesecake, but this time with almost all German ingredients made. I personally found him not quite as tasty – but it has been completely eaten up! I also have a tortellini salad made.Towards 1:45 pm, we are losgefahren and were also about 2:30 pm in the park we found the marked space at once and drove a little further.
There were car enthusiasts with their rigged cars assembled. Insanity, what car we got to see. And the guys were quite worth seeing – from the purely physical, we would at least 200 years in prison then.On the right Picknikplatz arrived – the park is very large – were all brought food to the tables made available. Sam, the organizer, then also ignited the barbecue and the “great feast” could begin. But actually it was less about eating than about new people and old friends to meet. Frank and Susanne were Nina and Malte it (by Frank, we have learned from this association) and also met Mikaela soon. Witzig was then that Frank, Susanne (Ostfriesland) and Mikaela (Friesland) after their acquaintance stated that they have common acquaintances in Germany. So small is the world!
Ecuadorians may register at the picnic on Sunday, March 26 at the Elysian Park For ERE
Monday, May 4th, 2009
The Consulate General of Ecuador in Los Angeles, registered a Ecuadorians living in Southern California, Nevada, Arizona, Hawaii and Utah, they wish to vote in the upcoming elections in Ecuador, during the big family picnic of the Club Ambato Los Angeles held on Sunday March 26th at the Elysian Park (near the School of Police at the side of Dodger Stadium in Los), Stadium Way on the street.
To register Ecuadorans ballot must submit their passport or Ecuadorian. Is free and only Ecuadorian consulate staff is authorized to make this constitutional right for citizens who wish to exercise the privilege to vote and elect the President and Vice President of Ecuador in the next elections on October 15, 2006.