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Winter 2004 Newsletter
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Hundreds Turn Out
for Echo Park Home Tour  
Clear skies.  No smog.  Not even late autumn haze!
  It’s hard to imagine that the EPHS could have enjoyed more perfect weather for “Hillsides and Hideaways,” the 2nd Annual Historic Echo Park Home Tour.

President's Corner
 
Celebrations & Challenges Ahead

It looks like we will have a lot to celebrate in 2005:

  • The 110th Anniversary of the opening of Echo Park & Lake as a public park
  • The 40th Anniversary of the founding of the Citizens Committee to Save Elysian Park
  • The 10th Anniversary of the formation of the Echo Park Historical Society

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Miracle on Alvarado Street
During the last year, the busy Glendale Boulevard - Alvarado Street area has seen remarkable changes that ten years ago would have seemed impossible. Amidst the occasional shootings, robberies and assorted gang activity, there has sprung up a movement to preserve the historic character of the neighborhood.

Development Threatens
Classic Echo Park Bungalow
     As the groundbreaking for a new live-work affordable housing project nears, efforts have ramped up in recent weeks to save the 1911 bungalow on the large, otherwise vacant lot at Delta Street and Echo Park Avenue known as Chicken Corner.

EPHS Volunteers
Take on Archive Project
A group of EPHS members and supporters are taking the first steps to organize and eventually expand the historical society's archives of photographs, newspaper clippings and other items.

    Elysian Heights Resident
 Served as First Counci Woman
    The progressive era of the 19-teens produced its share of Echo Park political luminaries as well as the artists, actors and beautiful nuts we more commonly associate with Edendale.
   Among the political notables of Echo Park was journalist/activist Estelle Lawton Lindsay, who lived at 2414 Echo Park Avenue and worked for over five decades to advance a “woman’s point of view” even as she wrote archly of movie starlets.

Jake Zeiltin: Cultural Pioneer
     Among the scores of larger than life characters who have made Echo Park their home, Jake Zeitlin stands out for bringing together many of the artists and writers of the 1920s and ’30s.

Echo Park Historical Society

Echo Park Historical Society        ephs@HistoricEchoPark.org        (323) 860-8874        P.O. Box 261039, Los Angeles, CA 90026