Friday, November 15, 2024

Echo Park Miscellany including Elysian Park & Chinatown Adjacent, Los Angeles, Cal.

Mohawk Bend, Echo Park

The gastropub has closed.  When it was a local movie theater called Studio One, I watched an original screening of the Beatles movie "A Hard Day's Night."  

12.18.2022 (Courtesy of Gary Leonard)

12.17.2023 (E. Uyeda)


Remnants of a House on Sunset Boulevard, Elysian Park Adjacent

Heading east on Sunset Boulevard, a northeast lot at Hill Place remained vacant for decades and decades.  These photos were taken circa mid to late 1990s.  The black/white photos were taken from across the street on Stephens Place where the Board of Education building once stood.







A view of Sunset Blvd. on the left, and the cross street is Hill Place, 1960s.
NOTE: this photo view centered on the house on the northwest lot.
(Courtesy of the Seaver Center for Western History Research, NHMLAC, P-011)


A recent Google map view of the northeast lot


Kim Sing Theatre, Chinatown Adjacent

An earlier blog page describes the memories of youth when Chinese films were screened here.

While riding along with an Ed Ruscha crew during their photo shoot of Figueroa Street in April 2021, I snapped these with my iPhone as the automobile was moving north on Fig:








4.11.2021 (E. Uyeda)