This view of bucolic Echo Park was taken in 1911 back when this area was primarily known as Edendale, which took in parts of Echo Park, Los Feliz and Silver Lake. During that same year, a movie trade publication I’d never previously heard of called “Motography” accurately described Edendale as “the motion picture center of the Pacific Coast.” Among the studios in this area were Selig-Polyscope, Fox, and Bison which later became Mack Sennett’s studios where the Keystone Kops and Charlie Chaplin got their start. Those little palm trees we can see in this photo are still there but of course, are much taller now.
This view of bucolic Echo Park was taken in 1911 back when this area was primarily known as Edendale, which took in parts of Echo Park, Los Feliz and Silver Lake. During that same year, a movie trade publication I’d never previously heard of called “Motography” accurately described Edendale as “the motion picture center of the Pacific Coast.” Among the studios in this area were Selig-Polyscope, Fox, and Bison which later became Mack Sennett’s studios where the Keystone Kops and Charlie Chaplin got their start. Those little palm trees we can see in this photo are still there but of course, are much taller now.
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