34.0791° N 118.2562° W
Echo Park
Named in 1892 for the echoes off the new lake. Victorian Angelino Heights, hillside bungalows and the lake's lotus beds below Dodger Stadium.
History
How Echo Park came to be.
- 1868
Echo Park Lake is built as a drinking-water reservoir.
- 1892
Parks superintendent Joseph Henry Tomlinson names the park for the echoes he heard during its construction.
- 1912
Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios opens on Allesandro Street, where Charlie Chaplin would make his first film.
- 1923
Aimee Semple McPherson opens Angelus Temple across from the lake.
- 1962
Dodger Stadium opens in Chavez Ravine, and in 2013 the lake reopens after a $45 million restoration.
Points of interest
Places that define Echo Park
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Fun facts
Things even locals forget
Chinatown rowed here.
Jack Nicholson's rowboat scene in Chinatown was filmed on Echo Park Lake.
The first pie in the face.
Slapstick's signature gag is said to have been filmed at Sennett's Echo Park studio.
A freeway that stopped short.
The Glendale Freeway ends 1.5 miles before Echo Park, after neighbors fought its extension.
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