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March 2010

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Monday, March 22, 2010 – Echo Park Echoes

Poster, Echo Park and Montana

Even the name sounds surreal – Echo Park – but it’s just a neighborhood east on Sunset, just past Alvarado, in the flats kind of under Dodger Stadium. Mack Sennett's studio was in Echo Park until the end of the silent era and a lot of the silent comedies were shot here – Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin, Our Gang and that sort of thing. Tom Mix built his studio just over the hill in Silverlake. And location managers still like the place – it's in Chinatown and Columbus Day, and some of Gilligan's Island, and scenes from Michael Jackson's 1983 Thriller video were shot here, and parts of the original 1953 film version of The War of the Worlds. Maybe it's an end of the world place.

Jackson Pollock lived here as a child, and Jerry Rubin lived here and in the seventies and eighties ran a legal and civil rights office on the southwest corner of Echo Park and Sunset – all in all an odd place. And this is the corner of Echo Park and Montana.

Poster, Echo Park and Montana
Poster, Echo Park and Montana
Poster, Echo Park and Montana
Posters, Echo Park and Montana
Barbershop Stairs, Echo Park and Montana
Barbershop Stairs, Echo Park and Montana
Neon Wine, Echo Park and Montana
Flag - mural detail, Echo Park and Montana
Shadow Girl - street sign, Echo Park and Montana
Shadow Girl - street sign, Echo Park and Montana

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Technical Note:

These photographs were taken with a Nikon D200 – the lenses used were AF-S Nikkor 18-70 mm 1:35-4.5G ED, or AF Nikkor 70-300 mm telephoto. The high-resolution photography here was modified for web posting using Adobe Photoshop 7.0 software.

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