jovelle narcise

trezi:

An Afternoon in Echo Park on Flickr.

seashellstreetart:

love letter: don’t say i didn’t warn you.

location: ariza’s tacos, echo park

The Gold Room, a divey, classy (preferably with an “i”) bar in Echo Park and a local staple.  PBR is drank without irony nor judgement.  Have 2 PBRs with tequila and you’ll be rewarded with free tacos, quesadillas, and house peanuts.  Pure gold.

Backside, a boutique store in Echo Park, hosts a release party this Friday, 7-11 p.m.

Backside Echo Park
1814 West Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, California 90026
(213) 413-3600
BETWEEN ALVARADO and LEMOYNE

machinesinc:

BACKSIDE ECHO PARK EVENT 10/28 COME PARTY

Agreed.  Amazing backyard view of palm trees and the DTLA skyline.

lunamuerte:

I love echo parque so damn much. 

There’s a natural spring in L.A. and it’s MacArthur Park, imagined in the early 1900s as “the Champs-Élysées of Los Angeles.” 

Source: seashellstreetart

- Mark Foster of Foster the People

D Magazine

An Echo Park institution, commonly known as “The Short Stop.”  It’s a former cop bar with a billiards table, dance floor, photo booth, smoking patio…  A Westsider’s destination.

Photo courtesy of lostlists

I took these photos of street, award-winning artist JR… all in Echo Park.  They are simply breathtaking.

sophiepappas:

I LOVE ECHO PARK. and the cool people that live there.

beautiful-soup:

Echo Park Home of Commune’s Roman Alonsos

Side view of the new Koning Eizenberg LEED-designed building on Temple Street, Echo Park. 1968 commercial office turned non-profit campus.

Griffith Park Observatory + Clouds + Sun.

William Leavitt, oil painter, does William Pereira, architect. Every trip to LAX isn’t complete without the Theme Restaurant.  The painting is on display at MOCA, Downtown LA, until July 3, 2011.

latimes:

Times’ art critic Christopher Knight writes on artist William Leavitt that he “renders the familiar civic and, more often, domestic landscape of post-war L.A., which is dominated by a modest, scrappy, relentlessly future-oriented sense of architectural optimism. All the same, what marks his work is a profound sense of estrangement. Neither antagonistic nor rancorous, it pushes familiarity aside in ways that make us see the world anew.”

Photo: William Leavitt, “Theme Restaurant,” 1986, oil on canvas. Credit: MOCA

Angry Face Hello Kitty

This would go great with a home-brewed cup of Intelligentsia coffee.

take-sunset:

“Good design lasts.” Heller Compact Stacking Dinnerware, 1964.

Massimo Vignelli’s Dinnerware was originally manufactured in Italy and won their first Compasso d’Oro Award for Good Design in 1964. The dinnerware was a huge hit when it came to America, where it was produced by Heller and available in a rainbow of colors.

(Take Sunset)