View of the Echo Park Playground, a city playground in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, near downtown. A Pacific Electric streetcar, a horse and buggy and an automobile are all seen on the street in foreground. Children play in the playground on a ball field, and large houses are seen on the hill. Title transcribed from writing on back of print: "Echo Park Playground 1909"--text, handwritten in pencil on verso. The Echo Park Playground opened in 1907 between Bellevue Avenue and Temple Avenue, and was only the second public playground to be built in the city of Los Angeles. Prior to this, this piece of land south of the lake was a muddy lot and a nuisance to the neighbors. The land was filled in and a 4-acre playground was built upon the fill.--Source: Echo Park Cultural Resources and Landscape Treatment Plan report, 2008. See also photographs in LAPL digital library.
Echo Park (Los Angeles, Calif.) Children Dwellings Electric railroads--Cars Local transit Parks Playgrounds Trolley cars Street-railroads Photographs. (aat)
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