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Echo Park History Day
Come learn about our neighborhood’s heritage on Saturday, Nov. 6! That’s when the EPHS will hold the third Echo Park History Day, an all-day event celebrating our neighborhood’s past with…
Echo Park Historical Society
The Echo Park Historical Society was founded in the Fall of 1995 to promote interest in Echo Park’s heritage, to preserve and protect natural sites and buildings of historic significance…
A Brief History of Echo Park
Echo Park and its lake have always been a touchstone for the community that grew up around it. Initially, the area we now know as the park was a natural…
El Santo Nino Chapel
Whatever happen to…El Santo Nino Chapel at 1034 Effie Street; find out in The Tidings the weekly newspaper of the Los Angeles Archdiocese. NPR’s Day to Day visited Echo Park…
Living Inside a Mystery
Living Inside a Mystery-Intrigued by clues their older homes reveal, owners turn to sleuthing features the home of Mathew Debois, President of the Greater Echo Park Elysian Neighborhood Council.
Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story
Now we are really back… Premiering on PBS June 8th, Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story reveals the saga of the lost communities of La Loma, Palo Verde and Bishop,…
walking tours in Los Angeles
Yesterday from my office downtown I witnessed a seemingly instantaneous thick black column of smoke rise from the hills of Echo Park. That smoke was the now destroyed home of…
Prehistory Argentina
As the settlement Stone Museum located about 250 km from Pico Truncado in the province of Santa Cruz, shows, it seems that the first Argentines were living there 13,000 years…
HISTORIC ECHO PARK GUIDE
An urban oasis: Echo Lake Park is a true symbol Angelino. His image has been captured in photographs, films, murals and even promotional postcards that were sent from one side…
Skylight Books
Skylight books is one of the premier independent bookstores in Los Angeles. A member of the American Booksellers Association and Southern California Booksellers Association, Skylight is locally-owned by a small…