Washington Heights, Echo Park -- The History of Sunset Boulevard Ep. 3

The Washington Heights section of Echo Park was laid out in 1887. The commercial section along Sunset Boulevard dates to the 10's and 20's. This stretch of Sunset Boulevard allows one to see 19th Century Los Angeles side by side with 20th Century Los Angeles.
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[@CarbonTitanium]

I currently live in Washington Heights, NYC, but grew up a couple blocks away from this video’s subject in Echo Park. Crazy coincidence!

[@trinaescartin8562]

Pizza Buona used to be called Pizza Bozza in the 70's. I had family that lived on Champlain Terrace and Rockwood Street.

[@rohiniu7570]

i went to pizza bozza quite a few times during and after high school days. it became pizza buona for a number of years after that - now a different place called cosa buona is at that location... different, fancier style, but still good - and pizza buona has moved down the street to alvarado - perhaps closer to kent st.

[@carolsidney7384]

This has answered a lot of questions. I have been here since the mid 50s and often wondered what some of the architectural oddities were and what the history was.....Thank you.

[@flojogrande]

That movie Theatre at 4:00 I knew as Studio Uno during the 70's to early 80's. I use to go catch the double features whether it was a Bruce Lee Special or Cheech and Chong. You could even smell what was being smoked on the screen!! I use to get my hair cut next door at Robert's Barber Shop. Between Robert's Barber Shop was Louie's Motorcycle Shop. I remember he had an old Harley Knucklehead in the Window. The Motorcycle Club guys would come in and tell their stories to Robert.

[@rohiniu7570]

i think i may have seen godzilla movies at that theater! during the early to mid 90s. definitely some revival-house fare.

[@neonsolidtiger]

My great grandpa had a TV repair shop across the street from the Ramona Theater in the late 50s to mid sixties called Ray's TV repair. I would do anything to find a photo of the shop or of him. All of our photos are gone. My great great grandma who was the wife of comic legend Luis Alberni had some bars in the area too, one was called the label inn.

[@bobolivas539]

Wow, I grew up on Coronado Terrace, one street west of Waterloo Street and Washington Heights from 1961 to 1979. I know all of those buildings shown in your video. Especially the movie theatre! Great history lesson on the area. Thank you so much!

[@neonsolidtiger]

Do you remember Ray's TV repair shop across the street from the theater?

[@viviangonzalez7096]

I lived on 2218 W. Elsinore St in the mid 1980's - 90's ... I remember these old homes and this side of Los Angeles.

[@neonsolidtiger]

My grandma Wanda Lafargo grew up around there. You probably saw her during that time.

[@emilylara4454]

I’ve been living around this neighborhood since I was kid it’s so amazing to learn about this! I hope to be a historian

[@raulcapetillo1087]

Me too my roots

[@grawakendream8980]

i think you'll be a great historian

[@Uprizeskateboards]

This is a great video. Thanks for the history!

[@mareesa]

lovely way to learn about my neighborhood!!

[@brocio]

Thank you for this

[@coltsuperocean10]

Excellent video!

[@machinelearng]

Great video

[@redcoltken]

update...many of the buildings on the south side of the street are being torn down for new "mixed used" places as the gentrification continues

[@kaoruyamazaki5724]

Great video!!!

[@namastepeace]

thanks for this great video!

[@grawakendream8980]

I used to live on Montrose just outside what used to be called Washington Heights

[@bryantarnett]

Great video! I'm enjoying your videos very much. I don't suppose you have a photograph of the Creation Theater from the early days, do you? I am interested in seeing what it looked like when it was built in 1914. I figure if you had one you would have included it in the video, but I just wanted to double check. Thanks!

[@iuryferrers.5485]

Interesting. I live in that area.

[@hungbulldaddy]

I'm an Angelino born at temple hospital, lived in what is now Korea Town, huh go figure? Anyway to many historical construction buildings are ruined by shoddy modernization my boyhood home of wood and concrete construction was turned into a building for a daycare center. All original existing walls once covered with white washed shingles, now covered with stucco.

[@turntechgodhead73]

RIP HIT BARGAIN

[@bobanderson2895]

So. California use to be a beautiful place of orchards, groves, and farms, now it's a place of over population and ugliness.

[@anthonyherrera9000]

Bob Anderson yeah thank gentrification for that