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Film crew turns the clock back on Angeleno Heights store
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LAPD Northeast Division’s newest crime fighting tools are Facebook, Twitter & YouTube
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Silver Lake tree is long on lemons
October 2008
Number of days since the Echo Park Lake Boathouse
has been tagged with graffiti: 9
Phone number city workers can call to paint it out: 311
has been tagged with graffiti: 9
Phone number city workers can call to paint it out: 311
How many touchdowns has Marshall High School
running back Preston Marshall scored this season: 22
running back Preston Marshall scored this season: 22
The minimum amount landlords must pay renters if they agree
to move out following a foreclosure sale: $7,000
to move out following a foreclosure sale: $7,000
Year that Eagle Rock trolley line was replaced with bus service
to Colorado and Eagle Rock Blvd: 1955
Price of a two-bedroom, Highland Park house
on Salonica Street when it went on the market in June : $319,900.
Price of the same house this month : $219,000
on Salonica Street when it went on the market in June : $319,900.
Price of the same house this month : $219,000
Gallons of water in the Silver Lake Reservoir: 795 million
Customers waiting in line last Friday at about 8:30 p.m.
at the Taco Zone truck parked outside the Vons in Echo Park: 12
Number of vehicles reported stolen so far this year as of Oct. 25
in the LAPD’s Northeast division: 1,218
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A previous blog post about historic photos documenting the construction and destruction related to the 2 Freeway generated a comment from a resident who wishes the freeway builders had not stopped at Glendale Boulevard:
“I remember when I first moved to LA and used the 2,” said Matt. “I was so confused as to why it ended so abruptly and why I [needed] to take local streets just to connect to where I was going. This was before I moved to Echo Park, but even now that I am an area resident, I think the project is a good idea. It’ll bring with it a bunch of annoying construction, but I think it serves the community well to displace the commuters who are just passing through.”
Photo by Futterer via the Corralitas Red Car Property
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It’s Sunday afternoon and Sara Leon and her friends and family are practicing quinceaňera dance moves on an oil-stained parking lot off Echo Park Avenue. The kids practice under the direction of Evelin Munoz, who for $700 provides seven dance classes tailored for quinceaňeras. The name of her company is Flash Dance. This is the fifth class for Sara and company before her quinceaňera on Nov 22. Looking good.
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Riding the Gold Line on Friday? Get ready for eggs. 90042
Because you can’t have too many vintage t-shirts: Silver Lake Flea Market to open. LAist
Watch the seasons change at The Park (the restaurant) in Echo Park. LA City Beat.
Yes, Prius owners can still get away without feeding the meter. Atwater Village Newbie
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Some Glassell Park activists are upset that proposed neighborhood street banners will display the name of the auto dealership sponsoring the signs: “KIA Glendale.” It’s bad enough that the public banners will give credit and promote a private business in neighboring Glendale, they say. But what’s most irritating is the fact that KIA Glendale is actually in Glassell Park but won’t say so.
“I‘d say get another biz to advertise that doesn’t identify itself as Glendale,” said Mike Gealer in a post on Nelalist. “The whole premise of this banner is recognition of Glassell Park community
identity and pride.”
identity and pride.”
Photo from the Glassell Park Improvement Assn.
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The Kleven family moved into their Silver Lake house on Corralitas Drive in 1960, just in time to watch most of their new neighborhood be destroyed all around them. The Klevens and others had front-row seats for the construction of the 2 Freeway through a canyon along the Silver Lake-Echo Park border. Photos taken by the Klevens and neighbor Antonio F. Futterer, which are posted on Diane Edwardson’s Corralitas Red Car Property blog, show the neighborhood in different stages of destruction over several years.
The 2 Freeway ends abruptly at Glendale Boulevard. But highway officials planned to extend the freeway deeper into the city, where it would have jogged west into Silver Lake and then south to the 101 Freeway. The state actually purchased homes along the route but the highway project was eventually abandoned.
But there’s more freeway construction in the works. Transportation officials are planning to remake the southern end of the 2 Freeway at Glendale Boulevard, promising years of disruption for residents and motorists alike. So, get your cameras ready for the 2 Freeway Terminus Project.
Photo by Antonio F. Futterer
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Case closed on the man who said he was wrongly convicted and jailed in the shooting death of a teenager at a Highland Park party in 1996. LA Times
A football star is born: Marshall High’s Oliver Preston has scored 22 touchdowns this season. Varsity Times Insider
What kind of pinot noir goes with a cheese puff? The unexpected pairings sampled during the second annual White Trash Tasting at Colorado Wine Co. in Eagle Rock. Caroline on Crack
A reading of the Dead Authors Society in Echo Park. LA Weekly
More Eastsiders talking about these Eastsiders but overlooking these Eastsiders.
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When the frosted glass door to Restaurant 15 was locked shut last Saturday night, the clock started ticking for Charles Kelly. He does not have a minute to lose. The new owner of the Echo Park Avenue bistro and bar has imposed on himself and his partner an ambitious, or some would say impossible, task of remodeling the interior, redoing the menu, installing some new equipment and retraining the staff in less than a week. His goal: reopen the place under new ownership with a limited menu and wine list this Friday, October 31, at 5 p.m.
Late Monday afternoon, with less than 96 hours before the reopening, Kelly standing on the left) and partner Bill Didonna stood in the middle of the restaurant dining room surrounded by stacks of furniture covered in plastic and the scent of primer paint and plaster in the air. They had initially planned to take more time to transform the Echo Park space into the Allston Yacht Club, kind of a cross between a wine bar and a “small-plate” bistro. But the sale of the restaurant took place sooner than expected, leaving Kelly and Didonna with much less time to get ready. In fact, they will open with the name of the old 15 restaurant still in place.
“We wanted to have more of a relaxed transition,’’ said Kelly, a former film technician who lives in Silver Lake. “But that’s not going to happen.”
So, the race is on. All they have to do is finish painting, finalize the menu, train the staff, find their food vendors and figure out who to call to pick up the trash in time to reopen by Halloween. Talk about scary.
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