EPHS would like to welcome the following new members, and express
our appreciation to those who have renewed their memberships.
HOUSEHOLD
Dennis Cagna - Carlos Medina
Alan Clark - Ruth Clark
Lorraine & Kaye Dunham
Lisa Grant - George Vale
Laura Gillies - Jason Horowitz
Flora & Kurt Kerp
Tom & Angela Lancaster
Charles & Bernadette Soter
Yeu-Wei & Martha Yee
Eric Adkins - Kaki Wall
Andrea Liss - Michael Dawson
Jeffrey Palo
- Lisa Tessandori
Christine Weir - Michael Gilvary
Cynthia Morris
INDIVIDUAL
Walter Abbenseth
Nina Alexander
Jill Allen
Dale Balani
Anne Block
Heather Denton
Judith Dickey
Clea Frost
Jim Green
Linda Howard
Michael Jortner
Eric Kristensson
Bert Lindgren
Angela Macias
Piper Mavis
Eileen Nakada
Philip Pascha
Miguel Reyes
Raymond Roker
Rhonda Reynolds
Tricia Schultz
Mike Sessa
Barbara Smith
Mark Snelgrove
D. Spinelli
Terry Trahan
Laine T.
Wagenseller
Fred Coleman
Susanna Erdos
Holly Hampton
Roger Hilleary
Diane Kanner
Margaret
Meyer
Jim Omahen
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Historic Echo Park
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Fall 2003 Newsletter
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Volume 8, Number 1
General
Meeting Notice
Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2003, 7 p.m.
Barlow Hospital - 2000 Stadium Way
Got a
digital camera? How about a disposable one? Either way, join us for the first planning
session for the 2004 Echo Park survey, the EPHS's fledgling effort to document our historic homes and commercial buildings. We'll discuss the home tour and
other projects too. (You don't need to bring the cameras).
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End of an Era
Echo
Park saw the passing of an era this summer. For the first time in 92 years, a pair of cottages on Morton Avenue will no longer be in the possession of Gladys Rice and her extended family.
The
little house at 1704 Morton Avenue is known to many in Echo Park as the house from "L.A. Confidential," the setting for a
creepy film scene where Russell Crowe finds rats and a dead body. But for Gladys and her family, the property has been home
for generations.
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What's in a name? Plenty, when it comes to the winding streets
and avenues of our neighborhood. This
newsletter has already highlighted the most dramatic name changes from Echo Park's past: Sunset Boulevard was previously known as Reservoir Street,
while Glendale Boulevard served
as Lake Shore Avenue south of Sunset and Allessandro Street just north of it.
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EPHS Hits the Internet
Although the EPHS and Echo Park history have long appeared on www.echopark.net, our orgnaization has never had its own dedicated web site. This new initiative
will help EPHS fullfill its mission of promoting the neighborhood's rich heritage.
First Echo Park Home Tour Arrives This Fall
We've set a date! The Echo Park Historical Society is about
to produce its first-ever EPHS 2003 Historic Home Tour, scheduled to take place one day only, on Sunday, November 9 from 11
a.m. to 4 p.m.
Titled "Restored, Remodeled and Remade," the Historic Echo Park
Home Tour will feature homes in and around Echo Park in a variety of styels --transitional Victorian, Craftsman bungalow,
'20s Spanish, mid-century cottage--in settings that range from humble street corners to dramatic hillsides.
Jensen's Goes on Market
Jensen's Recreation Center, Echo Park's finest commercial building
and a city cultural-historic landmark, was recently put up for sale.
Workshop
Helps Fight Window Pains
The EPHS held
another session of its wood window workshops on Aug. 2, with more than a dozen people turning out to wach EPHS President Kevin
Kuzma show how to restore a neglected 1923 window to operating condition
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