I had previously posted this clip of a 1935 Three Stooges short that climaxes at the intersection of Echo Park Avenue and Delta Street in Echo Park. But if watching “Three Little Beers” on Hulu’s five-inch-wide player left you unimpressed, you can see the real thing in a real theater on Saturday during the 11th annual Three Stooges Big Screen Event at the Alex Theatre in Glendale.
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Customer loses appetite over Echo Park food photos. LA Eastside
Eastside Turkeys: Councilman Jose Huizar gives away 1,600 meals in El Sereno after Councilman Ed Reyes serves up 600 families at Dodger Stadium.
Boyle Heights community activist Ross Valencia dies. EGP News
Do all CD 14 residents get this kind of service?: Council staff delivers Thanksgiving Turkey to Zumma Dog. Mayor Sam
Dodgers promise to rehab 42 public ball fields but don’t give any details. LA Times
We call it El dia del Guajolote. From City Terrace
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A Thanksgiving Day LA Times’ editorial listing things to be thankful for included Echo Park resident and Los Angeles City Council President Eric Garcetti. He was listed after bus drivers and before Prop. 8 protesters:
“We don’t appreciate everything the City Council does — it bobbles its share of issues and expends a fair amount of hot air. But Garcetti’s is a cool and intelligent head, charged with the difficult task of herding 14 other willful colleagues. He handles the job with grace, which we appreciate and which benefits the city.”
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On what must have been an even slower than usual day for news, the LA Times paid a Thanksgiving Day visit to a local animal hospital to check on the condition of Room 8 cat, the beloved feline mascot of Elysian Heights Elementary School:
“The children at Elysian Heights Elementary School will be happy to know today that Room 8 had a sumptous Thanksgiving dinner of horsemeat in the hospital and will be home soon. Room 8, a fat cat believed to be about 14 years old, underwent surger at Dr. Lockhard Small Animal Hospital, 940 N. Highland ave., for an ear badly chewed in a cat fight. There were about 30 ‘get well’ letters in Room 8′s hospital cage. I hope you will come back soon because we love you,” wrote Heidi. ‘Get back to school soon or you won’t be promoted,’ wrote Draza.”
Here’s the full story.
Happy Thanksgiving from The Eastsider LA.
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Authorities offer a $95,000 reward in the August shooting death of a deputy sheriff outside his Cypress Park home. LA Times
A Boyle Heights palm tree attack. LAist
Vandals at Eagle Rock high leave classrooms and book storage flooded; damage might reach $500,000. Eagle’s Scream
Homeboy Industries operating on a “payroll to payroll” basis. Witness LA
Los Feliz cancels its holiday fest while the show goes on in Atwater Village with a tree lighting ceremony. Franklin Avenue
Don’t ask why: There are three unmetered parking spaces on Sunset Blvd. in front of Walgreens.
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A long forgotten stage and amphitheater in Elysian Park came back to life Tuesday morning thanks to an actress and a recreation center for people with disabilities. Children took to the stage of the Elysian Park Therapeutic Recreation Center to perform “A Thanksgiving Story” under the direction of Alejandra Flores, an actress and founder of the Los Angeles Theatre Academy. It was the first performance on that stage in about 30 years.
The stage faces an outdoor amphitheatre located down the road from the Los Angeles Police Academy. Flores came across the performance space by accident, she told La Opinion (story in Spanish):
Photo: Christine Peters
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Anyone near Bellevue Avenue in Echo Park or Riverside Drive in Silver Lake is familiar with the sight of people sleeping and living out of their cars, vans and RVs. It’s illegal to do so, under city law. But that might change under a proposed ordinance that would permit people to legally sleep in their vehicles over night in designated zones. More details on Curbed LA.
Photo: Curbed LA
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This is probably of little comfort to Silver Lake residents angered over that new digital billboard blazing over Silver Lake Boulevard near Effie Street. But that sign probably helped lead to the removal of traditional billboards in Echo Park. Echo Park residents can be forgiven, however, if they have not noticed the reduction in blight or for failing to send “Thank You!” notes to their Silver Lake neighbors. How many Echo Park billboards have come down?
Two.
Yes, only two of those small Vista Media billboards along Echo Park Avenue were taken down. It looks like the pair were removed from a small white building just north of Lucretia Street. That still leaves more than a dozen billboards, many of them installed in front yards, on Echo Park Avenue alone.
The opportunity to remove some of those Echo Park Avenue billboards is what partly motivated Echo Park resident and councilman Eric Garcetti to support the now infamous 2006 agreement permitting the highly profitable digital signs, according to the LA Weekly. His comments about those billboards were featured in a YouTube video posted anonymously a few months ago.
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In return for being allowed to operate profitable digital signs, the billboard companies were expected to remove a far larger number of traditional billboards, many of them installed without permits. That has been very slow to happen.
“In a nutshell, the Echo Park Ave. billboards are owned by Vista, and the implementation of the Vista settlement basically got tied up with settlements with other billboard companies,” said Garcetti’s spokeswoman, Julie Wong. “We were, however, successful in getting Vista to remove the two Echo Park Ave billboards that were not permitted.”
Garcetti is now calling the city’s approval of the digital billboard agreement a “bad decision.”
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The “W” Streetcar comes to a stop on Monte Vista Street in this 1954 photo from the MTA Archives. Does anyone recognize the cross street?
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The housing market continues to tumble, but the owners of the sprawling Wyvernwood Garden Apartments in Boyle Heights are preparing for an eventual rebound. Many Wyvernwood tenants, however, are preparing for trouble . More than two hundred of them expressed their concerns at a meeting about the owner’s plans to eventually demolish the 1,800, post-war apartments and build more than 4,000 units of housing near the landmark Sears store at Olympic and Soto, according to EGP News.
The ambitious plan by Fifteen Group, which was unveiled earlier this year, have yet to receive government approval and may take years to realize. The uncertainty, however, only adds to the anxiety among many low-income tenants like Sonia Mencia, who has called Wyvernwood home for 27 years.
Photo: EGP News
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