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Echo Park, Los Angeles

Index Echo Park, Los Angeles

Echo Park is a densely populated neighborhood of 43,000+ residents in Central Los Angeles. [1]

85 relations: African Americans, Albert Nozaki, Allison Anders, Amber Benson, Ann Robinson, Anna Camp, Apartment, Arroyo Seco Parkway, Art Ingels, Art Pepper, Asian Americans, Atwater Village, Los Angeles, Austin Amelio, Érica García, Beverly Boulevard, Bungalow, California State Route 2, Carey McWilliams (journalist), Carlos Almaraz, Central Los Angeles, Chavez Ravine, Chinatown, Los Angeles, Civic Center, Los Angeles, Danny Trejo, Darwin William Tate, Devendra Banhart, Dodger Stadium, Downtown Los Angeles, Dynamite, Edward Middleton Manigault, Elliott Smith, Elysian Park, Los Angeles, Elysian Valley, Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti, Estelle Lawton Lindsey, Fad, Feature story, Frank Zappa, Glenn Frey, Henry Lewis (musician), Hipster (contemporary subculture), Hispanic and Latino Americans, Horatio Sanz, Interstate 5 in California, J. D. Souther, Jackson Browne, Jackson Pollock, Jacob Zeitlin, James W. Potts, John Huston, ..., Karen Tongson, Kim Gruenenfelder, Leo Politi, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lil Peep, List of districts and neighborhoods of Los Angeles, List of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in Silver Lake, Angelino Heights, and Echo Park, Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, Los Angeles Fire Department, Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles Public Library, Los Angeles Times, Mapping L.A., Marilyn Horne, Mi Vida Loca, Neighborhood watch, Non-Hispanic whites, Paul Landacre, Peafowl, Quinceañera (film), Roger L. Simon, Roy Hampton, Seth Green, Shia LaBeouf, Silver Lake, Los Angeles, Solomon Lazard, Steve McQueen, Sunset Boulevard, Temple Street (Los Angeles), The Smoking Gun, United States Postal Service, USA Today, Victorian era, Westlake, Los Angeles, William Ferguson (Los Angeles). Expand index (35 more) »

African Americans

African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.

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Albert Nozaki

Albert Nozaki (1 January 1912 – 16 November 2003) was a Japanese American art director who worked on various films for Paramount Pictures.

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Allison Anders

Allison Anders (born November 16, 1954) is an American independent film director whose films include Gas Food Lodging, Mi Vida Loca and Grace of My Heart.

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Amber Benson

Amber Nicole Benson (born January 8, 1977) is an American actress, writer, director, and producer.

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Ann Robinson

Ann Robinson (born May 1, 1935) is an American actress and stunt horse rider, perhaps best known for her work in the science-fiction classic The War of the Worlds and in the 1954 film Dragnet, in which she starred as a Los Angeles police officer opposite Jack Webb and Ben Alexander.

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Anna Camp

Anna Ragsdale Camp (born September 27, 1982) is an American actress and singer.

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Apartment

An apartment (American English), flat (British English) or unit (Australian English) is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies only part of a building, generally on a single storey.

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Arroyo Seco Parkway

The Arroyo Seco Parkway, also known as the Pasadena Freeway, is the first freeway in the Western United States.

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Art Ingels

Art Ingels (sometimes misspelled as Ingles) is known as 'the father of karting'.

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Art Pepper

Arthur Edward Pepper Jr. (September 1, 1925 – June 15, 1982) was an American alto saxophonist and very occasional tenor saxophonist and clarinetist.

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Asian Americans

Asian Americans are Americans of Asian descent.

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Atwater Village, Los Angeles

Atwater Village is a highly diverse neighborhood in the 13th district of Los Angeles, California.

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Austin Amelio

Austin Amelio is an American actor best known for his roles on The Walking Dead and Everybody Wants Some!!.

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Érica García

Érica García, born April 6, 1974, is a composer, singer and an actress of Argentinian-American descent.

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Beverly Boulevard

Beverly Boulevard is one of the main east-west thoroughfares in Los Angeles, in the U.S. state of California.

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Bungalow

A bungalow is a type of building, originally developed in the Bengal region in South Asia.

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California State Route 2

State Route 2 (SR 2) is a state highway in the U.S. state of California.

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Carey McWilliams (journalist)

Carey McWilliams (December 13, 1905 – June 27, 1980) was an American author, editor, and lawyer.

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Carlos Almaraz

Carlos Almaraz (October 5, 1941 – December 11, 1989) was a Mexican-American artist and an early proponent of the Chicano street arts movement.

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Central Los Angeles

Central Los Angeles is a 57.87-square-mile (149.88 km²) region of Los Angeles County, California, comprising twenty-three neighborhoods within the city of Los Angeles, as well as Griffith Park, the city's largest public park.

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Chavez Ravine

Chavez Ravine is a shallow L-shaped canyon located in Los Angeles, California, United States, partially in the Elysian Park neighborhood.

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Chinatown, Los Angeles

Chinatown is a neighborhood in Downtown Los Angeles, California that became a commercial center for Chinese and other Asian businesses in Central Los Angeles in 1938.

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Civic Center, Los Angeles

The Civic Center neighborhood of Los Angeles, California is the administrative core of the City of Los Angeles, County of Los Angeles and a complex of city, county, state, and federal government offices, buildings, and courthouses.

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Danny Trejo

Danny Trejo (born May 16, 1944) is a Mexican-American actor who has appeared in numerous Hollywood films, often as villains and antiheroes.

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Darwin William Tate

Darwin William Tate (ca. 1889–1962), who went by Darwin W. Tate, was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council between 1933 and 1939 and chief of the California Division of State Beaches and Parks from 1939 to 1942.

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Devendra Banhart

Devendra Obi Banhart (born May 30, 1981) is a Venezuelan American singer-songwriter and visual artist.

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Dodger Stadium

Dodger Stadium, occasionally called by the metonym Chavez Ravine, is a baseball park located in the Elysian Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, the home field to the Los Angeles Dodgers, the city's Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise.

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Downtown Los Angeles

Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, as well as a diverse residential neighborhood of some 58,000 people.

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Dynamite

Dynamite is an explosive made of nitroglycerin, sorbents (such as powdered shells or clay) and stabilizers.

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Edward Middleton Manigault

Edward Middleton Manigault (June 14, 1887 – August 31, 1922) was an American Modernist painter.

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Elliott Smith

Steven Paul "Elliott" Smith (August 6, 1969 – October 21, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter, and musician.

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Elysian Park, Los Angeles

Elysian Park is a neighborhood in Central Los Angeles, California, encompassing Chavez Ravine, with a mostly low-income community of 2,600+ people.

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Elysian Valley, Los Angeles

Elysian Valley, also known as Frogtown,Isaac Simpson.

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Eric Garcetti

Eric Michael Garcetti (born February 4, 1971) is an American politician currently serving as the 42nd Mayor of Los Angeles.

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Estelle Lawton Lindsey

Estelle Lawton Lindsey (c. 1868 – 1955) was a 20th-century journalist who was also the first female City Council member in Los Angeles, California, (1915–17) the first woman to preside over the City Council there and the first woman to act as mayor in any American city of comparable size.

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Fad

A fad, trend or craze is any form of collective behavior that develops within a culture, a generation or social group in which a group of people enthusiastically follows an impulse for a finite period.

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Feature story

A feature story is a piece of non-fiction writing about news.

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Frank Zappa

Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, composer, activist and filmmaker.

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Glenn Frey

Glenn Lewis Frey (November 6, 1948 – January 18, 2016) was an American singer, songwriter, actor and founding member of the rock band the Eagles.

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Henry Lewis (musician)

Henry Jay Lewis (October 16, 1932 – January 26, 1996) was an African-American double-bassist and orchestral conductor.

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Hipster (contemporary subculture)

The hipster subculture is stereotypically composed of younger and middle-aged adults who reside primarily in gentrified neighborhoods.

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Hispanic and Latino Americans

Hispanic Americans and Latino Americans (Estadounidenses hispanos) are people in the United States who are descendants of people from countries of Latin America and Spain.

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Horatio Sanz

Horacio Sanz (born June 4, 1969), better known by his stage name Horatio Sanz, is a Chilean-born American actor and comedian.

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Interstate 5 in California

Interstate 5 (I-5) is a major north–south route of the Interstate Highway System in the U.S. state of California.

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J. D. Souther

John David Souther (born November 2, 1945) is an American singer and songwriter.

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Jackson Browne

Clyde Jackson Browne (born October 9, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter and musician who has sold over 18 million albums in the United States.

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Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) was an American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement.

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Jacob Zeitlin

Jacob Israel Zeitlin (November 4, 1902 – August 30, 1987) was an American bookseller, publisher, collector, poet and intellectual in Los Angeles in the mid-twentieth century.

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James W. Potts

James Wesley Potts, known as James W. Potts or J.W. Potts, (1830–1896) was a pioneer resident of Los Angeles, California, after that state became part of the United States following the Mexican War.

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John Huston

John Marcellus Huston (August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American-Irish film director, screenwriter and actor.

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Karen Tongson

Karen Tongson (born August 23, 1973 in Manila, Philippines) is a Filipino-American cultural critic, writer and queer studies scholar.

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Kim Gruenenfelder

Kim Gruenenfelder is an American author of women's fiction, specifically romantic comedy fiction, novels.

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Leo Politi

Leo Politi (1908–1996) was an Italian-American artist and author who wrote and illustrated some 20 children's books, as well as Bunker Hill, Los Angeles (1964), intended for adults.

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Leonardo DiCaprio

Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio (born November 11, 1974) is an American actor and film producer.

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Lil Peep

Gustav Elijah Åhr (November 1, 1996 – November 15, 2017), known professionally as Lil Peep, was an American rapper, singer, and songwriter.

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List of districts and neighborhoods of Los Angeles

This is a list of notable districts and neighborhoods of the city of Los Angeles, California.

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List of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in Silver Lake, Angelino Heights, and Echo Park

This is a list of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in Silver Lake, Angelino Heights, and Echo Park, Los Angeles, California.

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Los Angeles County Department of Health Services

Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (abbreviated DHS and LADHS) operates the public hospitals and clinics in Los Angeles County, and is United States' second largest municipal health system, after NYC Health + Hospitals.

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Los Angeles Fire Department

The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) provides fire fighting, fire suppression, emergency medical services, technical rescue, hazardous materials mitigation, and fire prevention for the city of Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Los Angeles Police Department

The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), officially the City of Los Angeles Police Department, is the police department of Los Angeles.

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Los Angeles Public Library

The Los Angeles Public Library system (LAPL) serves the residents of the City of Los Angeles.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Mapping L.A.

Mapping L.A. is a project of the Los Angeles Times, beginning in 2009, to draw boundary lines for 158 cities and unincorporated places within the Los Angeles County, California, 114 neighborhoods within the City of Los Angeles and 42 unincorporated areas where the statistics were merged with adjacent cities.

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Marilyn Horne

Marilyn Horne (born January 16, 1934) is an American mezzo-soprano opera singer.

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Mi Vida Loca

Mi Vida Loca (also known as My Crazy Life) is a 1994 American drama film directed and written by Allison Anders.

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Neighborhood watch

A neighborhood watch or neighbourhood watch (see spelling differences), also called a crime watch or neighbourhood crime watch, is an organized group of civilians devoted to crime and vandalism prevention within a neighborhood.

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Non-Hispanic whites

Non-Hispanic whites or whites not of Hispanic or Latino origin (commonly referred to as Anglo-Americans)Mish, Frederic C., Editor in Chief Webster's Tenth New Collegiate Dictionary Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S.A.:1994--Merriam-Webster See original definition (definition #1) of Anglo in English: It is defined as a synonym for Anglo-American--Page 86 are European Americans who are not of Hispanic or Latino origin/ethnicity, as defined by the United States Census Bureau.

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Paul Landacre

Paul Hambleton Landacre (July 9, 1893, Columbus, Ohio - June 3, 1963, Los Angeles, California) participated in the Southern California artistic Renaissance between the world wars and is regarded as one of the outstanding printmakers of the modern era.

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Peafowl

The peafowl include three species of birds in the genera Pavo and Afropavo of the Phasianidae family, the pheasants and their allies.

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Quinceañera (film)

Quinceañera ("Fifteen-year-old", referring to a coming-of-age ceremony in Mexican communities) is a 2006 American independent drama film written and directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland.

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Roger L. Simon

Roger Lichtenberg Simon (born November 22, 1943) is an American novelist and Academy Award-nominated screenwriter.

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Roy Hampton

Roy Hampton (ca. 1901–1953) was an attorney, ex-Marine and former journalist who was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council from 1939 to 1943.

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Seth Green

Seth Benjamin Green (born Seth Benjamin Gesshel-Green; February 8, 1974) is an American actor, voice artist, comedian, producer, writer and director.

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Shia LaBeouf

Shia Saide LaBeouf (born June 11, 1986) is an American actor, performance artist, and filmmaker.

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Silver Lake, Los Angeles

Silver Lake is a residential and commercial neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California.

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Solomon Lazard

Solomon Lazard, also known as S. Lazard, (1827–1916) was an entrepreneur in 19th century Los Angeles, California, a member of the city council there in 1854 and in 1861–62 and, some say, the founder of the international banking firm Lazard Frères and Company.

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Steve McQueen

Terence Steven McQueen (March 24, 1930 – November 7, 1980) was an American actor.

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Sunset Boulevard

Sunset Boulevard is a boulevard in the central and western part of Los Angeles County, California that stretches from Figueroa Street in Downtown Los Angeles to the Pacific Coast Highway at the Pacific Ocean.

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Temple Street (Los Angeles)

Temple Street is a street in the City of Los Angeles, California.

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The Smoking Gun

The Smoking Gun is a website that posts legal documents, arrest records, and police mugshots on a daily basis.

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United States Postal Service

The United States Postal Service (USPS; also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service) is an independent agency of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the United States, including its insular areas and associated states.

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USA Today

USA Today is an internationally distributed American daily, middle-market newspaper that serves as the flagship publication of its owner, the Gannett Company.

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Victorian era

In the history of the United Kingdom, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.

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Westlake, Los Angeles

Westlake is a residential and commercial neighborhood in Central Los Angeles, California.

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William Ferguson (Los Angeles)

William Ferguson (1822–1910) was a pioneer American settler of Los Angeles, California, after it became a part of the United States in 1847.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_Park,_Los_Angeles

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