Echo Park

[IThinkImLost_815]

Anyone catch it? It was mentioned....anything to do with Mr. Eko?

[Peacock Spring]

Originally Posted by IThinkImLost_815

Anyone catch it? It was mentioned....anything to do with Mr. Eko?

I heard that, but since I don't know anything about Echo Park, I thought maybe it was just slipped in by the writers to make people post about whether anyone else heard it or not.

[silveranswer]

I think it's a real place in LA. It's mentioned in LA Confidential, anyway. As a crime scene in that stroy, I believe.

[IThinkImLost_815]

haha, yeah...i actually googled it---lol---and its some park in LA that is in a "diverse community" and also its somehow historical...

[Peacock Spring]

Originally Posted by IThinkImLost_815

haha, yeah...i actually googled it---lol---and its some park in LA that is in a "diverse community" and also its somehow historical...

I'd heard of it before, just didn't know whether it had enough to do with the concept of the show that it would mean something or not. It just made me wonder if the writers were playing with us, lol.

[Music805]

I grew up near Echo Park in L.A. That's about as oppisite of Westwood you can get (which was where AL went to on her first day back).

[shanzy288]

Echo Park is a place in los Angeles. It has a really pretty park but it's not the best neighborhood

[God's tom]

The writers may be setting up a future "flashback connection"
Stay tuned!

[7psmi]

Originally Posted by lonewolf

The writers may be setting up a future "flashback connection"
Stay tuned!

I keep thinking it was a place for drug trafficking in the 70's or something.

[waltisfuture]

Originally Posted by 7psmi

I keep thinking it was a place for drug trafficking in the 70's or something.

You peeked my interest, and your right.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_Pa...es,_California

Echo Park was the original center of the film industry in Los Angeles, before the studios moved toHollywood just before World War I.

The 1960's television series Gilligan's Island was shot in the area

The area is popular with modern filmmakers for the pre-World War II look of some districts.

Before World War II Echo Park was a middle class neighborhood, nicknamed "Red Hill" for a concentration of political radicals living there.

The commercial district along Sunset Boulevard suffered greatly in the1950's from the condemnation of the residences in nearby Chavez Ravine to build Dodger Stadium.

The area in the immediate vicinity of the park itself became seriously beset by problems with drugs and gangs in the 1970's and 1980's.

Postwar flight to the suburbs resulted in Echo Park becoming overwhelmingly Latino.

Bordering the park are the cathedral of the Episcopalian diocese of Los Angeles and the famous Angelus Temple, a large Foursquare Gospel church built by Canadian-born Pentacostal evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson in 1923.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimee_Semple_McPherson

Interesting life story. Kidnapping, white slavery, obstruction of justice, nervous breakdown, suicide etc.


http://www.glenecho.ca/

Just thought this was kind of funny.

A complete naturist/nudist resort with year-round facilities for naturism/nudism within a short distance of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.


http://www.historicechopark.org/

Explore some of the city's tallest public stairways and steepest streets on this approximately 2-hour long tour.