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A one-block stretch of Effie Street near Echo Park Avenue was closed off this morning as a city crew of Street Services workers sawed down a 40-foot high date palm. Supervisor George Pardo said a city arborist who had inspected the tree on Effie near Lemoyne Street at the request of a resident had determine that it had been diseased and in danger of falling. He pointed several spots on the trunk that appeared rotted. Not everyone was happy about seeing the palm cut down. Pardo said several residents had complained to him this morning, and one person emailed The Eastsider about her concerns:
“It seems thoughtlessly drastic to kill such a beautiful tree. Those grow so slowly, and as far as I know, of recent the city has NO MONEY to replant what they take down. So we have one less mature tree into the foreseeable future on Effie …”
Pardo did not know the age of the tree. But it had taken a crew of about five men more than 2-1/2 hours to saw most of it down. The crew still needed to cut it down to the base and then have the trunk mulched and hauled away.
Palatero hustles up Glendale Boulevard in Atwater Village.| Photo by Jesse Saucedo
84-year-old El Sereno man found dead in his Collis Street home amid signs of a struggle. ABC7
Sheriff Baca says pot shops & dispensaries have become crime targets. L.A. Times
A run down of Echo Park & Edendale library events this month. Echo Park Now
New Atwater church takes root at a neighborhood school. Los Feliz Ledger
Happening Today: Echo Park Improvement Assn. Town Hall. Save the Date
Notes: Silver Lake activist and real estate agent Michael Slater died late last month … Silver Lake Neighborhood Council approves a $10,000 grant for the Micheltorena Street School garden
If you were moving to Echo Park today and your moving truck was late, this photo might explain why. The moving truck bottomed out on Sunset Boulevard at about 2:30 P.M. as it started to climb up Quintero Street. It didn’t get very far. The movers unloaded some of the furniture as they waited for another vehicle to come to their rescue. It’s far from the first time a truck or bus has gotten stuck at the bottom as well as the top of one Echo Park’s steep streets.
This time-lapse video of the House Spirits just proves what most Echo Park residents already know – the House of Spirits is one of the busiest liquor stores around. Artist and Echo Park resident Joe Santarromana – condensed an hour of footage (shot at 2 frames a second and played back at 24 frames a second) down to 38 seconds. The blazing neon of the House of Spirits and the light from the Los Burritos* next door make for an eye-catching scene, he said. “It looks like a theater set.”
* Correction: Got our our neighborhood burrito stands mixed up! The correct name of the stand in the video is Los Burritos – not Burrito King as mentioned in previous versions of this post.
Doctor Marc Abrams, the legendary Silver Lake Walking Man, died six weeks ago in what was determined to be a suicide. But the years of seeing the very sun tanned Abrams walking the streets of Silver Lake – often while he was shirtless and reading a newspaper – has been stamped into the memory of many residents. Last week, Elizabeth Tobias of Echo Park was in West Hollywood when she caught sight of a familiar figure. A thin, shirtless man wearing shorts walking briskly down La Cienega Boulevard reminded her of The Walking Man. Tobias snapped the above photo above as the man walked away:
“I spotted this walker on La Cienega Blvd and the resemblance was UNCANNY- the shirtless tan, the stance, the posture and the SHORTS. He was walking fast, so I had to run after him to get my shot. I was in Maine when I read of his death and was stunned that he received so much media coverage. He was a fixture of the neighborhood and I still feel his friendly, slightly eerie presence when I walk around Silverlake.”
The organizers behind the dodgeball league known as the Eagle Rock Yacht Club have not only been preparing for the upcoming season but also on forming a nonprofit corporation. Operating as a tax- exempt group would put the league in a better position to support the Glassell Park and Eagle Rock recreation center where it plays. An email from the league provides some details:
“We’ve also just become a non-profit, so, part of the money that comes in from registration goes right back into each rec center we play through volunteering, supplies and cash donations.”
The league is now signing up players for the season that begins Sept. 15 at the Eagle Rock Recreation Center. Every game will be followed by drinks at the Verdugo bar in Glassell Park. Once all the federal paperwork is completed, Eagle Rock Yacht Club players will be able to deduct part or all of their registration fee – but not their bar tab – from their taxes.
Last week the Above the City blog posted some photos (pictured above) of a grid of holes being bored into a steep hillside near Debs Park and asked the question what was going on? This week residents found out that the holes are for the construction of a large array of solar panels that will [...]
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Most of the members of the online Atwater Village Forum are a polite group, exchanging news about store openings and alerting each other about neighborhood burglaries. But there are also times when the members and their discussions get out of hand. That has prompted the Atwater Village Neighborhood Council, which hosts the forum, to consider [...]
Shopping for food and drink on Echo Park Avenue has often meant stopping by a string of tienditas and liquor stores jammed with everything from milk and beer to light bulbs and the occasional onion or tomatillo
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