Echo Park - Then and Now

An Echo Park Film Center youth film made in Spring 2005 for "City of Angels" by Sam Yale

A brief pictoral history of Echo Park from 1884 to the present.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Echo
• Park
• FIlm
• Center
• Youth
• Media
• Lake
• Driving
• Sunset
• historical
• society
• backdrop
• los
• angeles

[mariothepookster]

I grew up in Los Feliz/ Silverlake/Echo Park area in the 60's. I remember getting up early on a sat./sun morning and making it down to the lake to catch freshly stocked blue gills, maybe, if i got lucky, a carp.As a teenager, I would go on dates with friends to Echo Park. At that time the lake had electric powered boats that you could put the top down on, at make-out with your girlfriend.

Unfortunately, there are now too may low life, idiots who have ruined it for vast majority of good people.

[OSTARAEB4]

@sf415RudeDog act as if slavery was solely a white man's invention. I think you'll find many whites feel blacks have no respect for life given the high degree of murder in YOUR OWN communities. If America fails to tell her history of slavery and Jim Crow in our schoolbooks, it appears the hatred for whites is certainly being taught by your own black "civil rights" activists. Yes, we have an ugly history, so go ahead and enjoy your hate for whites so enjoy what's ruining America.

[OSTARAEB4]

@sf415RudeDog act as if slavery was solely a white man's invention. I think you'll find many whites feel blacks have no respect for life given the high degree of murder in YOUR OWN communities. If America fails to tell her history of slavery and Jim Crow in our schoolbooks, it appears the hatred for whites is certainly being taught by your own black "civil rights" activists. Yes, we have an ugly history, so go ahead and enjoy your hate for whites so enjoy the destruction of the USA by racism.

[OSTARAEB4]

@sf415RudeDog I guess your racism explains the tribal wars/religious conflict in the numerous various African countries. I guess all the random gun violence, drive by shootings with children and in some cases infants being hit all over everyday American cities and newspapers. Yes, clearly America had a foundation built on slavery, which is completely evil. And all this talk about the native Americans as if they all lived in harmony. Sadly, uneducated, and even educated blacks (con't)

[vjd2606]

one of my fondest memories is piloting the electric boats they had at echo park lake

[Yxster]

HAHAHA LOL white people in mecho fark are moving out 2 the hills again you could tell the person underneath me doesnt live around here nope no future we run the show bye

[bamkablam]

The reason I like Echo Park is because it is so racially and socioculturally diverse. I would take this area over the whitewashed west side ANY DAY. To all of you retards that have made racist remarks, you need to get with it. LA is growing too big and is waaaaay too cosmopolitan to accommodate any more of your backward and meanspirited racism. Echo Park will be a multi ethnic area forever into the future whether you like it or not!! Get with the program!!

[Yxster]

NOW MECHO FARK IS LAME BUNCH OF WANNA BE GANGSTERS UP THE AVENUE PUTTING KIDS LIFE IN DANGER FUCKEN SPERMS ....OBS 13 OSIRIBOYS

[wonderfulkat]

My dad was born and raised in EP. Belmont High and Tommy's Hamburgers! he almost drowned in the lake at echo park.

[azndudoncam]

@YourLoveLetter y'know i heard that one of the countries in africa is considered the happiest of people, despite situations. with the whites coming or not, no bad would came from neither side if they came we would have still discovered really great inventions. if they didn't the natives would have learned how to live with each other peacefully. just stop fighting, echo park is fine, it's where i was raised, one thing my parents told me that any sort of negative things like arguing doesn't help