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Angelenos swim in the Echo Park Community Pool, 1632 Bellevue Ave, Los Angeles, 1958
To my way of thinking, this photo is a quintessentially LA photo. There wasn’t much separating these Angelenos swimming at the Echo Park Community Pool from the Hollywood Freeway—just a triangle of grass and a wall. But for inner-city dwellers … Continue reading
Pacific Electric streetcar outside Angelus Temple, Echo Park, Los Angeles, November 3, 1950
This pair of Pacific Electric streetcars were on Glendale Boulevard in Echo Park when this photo was taken on November 3, 1950. In the background we can see the dome of the Angelus Temple, which was the 5,300-seat spiritual home … Continue reading
Horseless carriage traffic along Sunset Blvd on the day it opened to the public, Echo Park, Los Angeles, May 14, 1904
Sunset Blvd opened to the public on May 14, 1904, allowing the lucky few Angelenos who owned one of those new-fangled horseless carriages to go for a drive. This photo was taken that day looking west at the intersection of … Continue reading
Aimee Semple McPherson’s Angelus Temple, Echo Park, Los Angeles, circa mid 1920s
By the mid 1920s, one of the biggest names in Los Angeles wasn’t a movie star but an evangelical Pentecostal preacher named Aimee Semple McPherson. In 1923, she started her Foursquare Church (drawing its name from Jesus Christ the Savior, … Continue reading
Aerial shot of Echo Park and the downtown Los Angeles skyline, April 9, 2020 during the Covid-19 lockdown
I usually post vintage photos of Los Angeles but I came across this one on Facebook and wanted to share it with you. And also have this one published for the record, lest we forget. With the ongoing Covid-19 lockdown … Continue reading
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Echo Park, Los Angeles, 1911
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 … Continue reading
Motorcade on a newly opened segment of the 101 Hollywood Freeway, 1950
A motorcade travels over a newly opened segment of the 101 Hollywood Freeway in 1950. The Queen of Angels Hospital shows us this was in the Echo Park segment of the 101. I look at this photo and can’t help … Continue reading
Red car passing Echo Park Lake, 1954.
Oh, how I wish these things still punctuated the L.A. urban landscape. This shot of a red car passing Echo Park Lake at the intersection of Santa Ynez St and Glendale Blvd was taken in 1954.
Aimee Semple McPherson’s Angelus Temple, Echo Park, Los Angeles
Aimee Semple McPherson’s Angelus Temple across from Echo Park just off the Eastern end of Sunset Blvd in (I’m guessing) the 1930s. By this stage, McPherson’s heyday was largely a thing of the past. Note the streetcar tracks on the … Continue reading