A man identified only as "Jesus", possibly Jesus Sanchez, owner of Ojala Gallery, holds a large glass vase with orchids at the opening of Ojala Arts Gallery, located on Echo Park Avenue and Delta Street, across from the Magic Gas gas station and Morton Avenue. For generations, this corner has been one of the nerve centers of the Echo Park neighborhood. The gallery scene arrived in 1998 with the opening of Ojala Art Gallery, followed by a few others. These galleries put chairs out along the sidewalk, and on weekends people visited during the day and hung out. But by 2003, all of the galleries were either leaving or gone. Now a salon and several boutiques as well as El Batey, a grocery store that was cut in half to allow space for Chango coffee house, occupy the storefronts where Ojala and the other galleries once stood. Photograph dated May 2, 1998.
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1 photographic print :b&w ;29 x 36 cm. Photographic prints
Ojala Arts Gallery (Echo Park, Los Angeles, Calif.) Art museums--California--Los Angeles Storefronts--California--Echo Park (Los Angeles) Flower arrangements Echo Park (Los Angeles, Calif.) Los Angeles Neighborhoods Collection photographs
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