Grand Opening day of the "new" Echo Park Branch library. Several children from a neighborhood elementary school stand at the entrance; they appear to be chanting or singing, and all have their right arms up, fingers pointing upward. The Echo Park Branch Library was established in the early 1900s as a depository for discarded books in the old Echo Park playground clubhouse. Throughout the years, the branch moved several times, until the Board of Library Commissioners approved acquisition of property at 1410 West Temple Street in 1991, and ground was broken for the new facility on September 24, 1994. The new 17,543 square-foot Echo Park Branch Library building has a multi- purpose room, a bookstore, and two separate reading areas with raised bench seating for children and young adults, as well as a gallery wall to showcase local artists' works. Photograph dated June 5, 1997.
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Los Angeles Public Library.--Echo Park Branch Branch libraries--California--Echo Park (Los Angeles) Celebrations--California--Echo Park (Los Angeles) Children--California--Los Angeles Echo Park (Los Angeles, Calif.) Los Angeles Neighborhoods Collection photographs
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