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After a day of showers, hail and chilly temperatures, rainbows were a welcome sight this afternoon, brightening up the skies above Echo Park, Highland Park, Mount Washington and other neighborhoods.
JOE BIDEN DEFEATS PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP
The Associated Press declares Joe Biden the winner of a grueling campaign for the American presidency. He will lead a polarized nation through a historic collision of health, economic and social crises.
#APracecall
Anyone 18 or older can to line up without an appointment between today and Sunday at the Cal State LA site for a shot -- if vaccine supplies are available. Those with appointments still receive priority.
If you are wondering what all those media choppers are doing hovering over Echo Park, they are focused on the long line at the Dodger Stadium COVID testing site.
Big line for COVID testing at LA County’s largest testing site, Dodger Stadium. Testing was expanded today because of the spike in cases but you’ll need to be patient if you come here...maybe bring a good podcast or two😬
@CBSLA
@KCBSKCALDesk
Preservationists have nominated the Echo Park restaurant as a historic landmark -- a designation that would make it more difficult to demolish for a 5-story residential and retail project.
#EagleRockFire
Update:
* 30 acres burned and 25% contained
* Glendale ordered evacuations in Glenoaks Canyon area
* No evacuations in Eagle Rock
* No reports of injuries or structure damage
* 2 and 134 freeways remain shut down
Photo by Martha Benedict
The Sunset Foot Clinic is leaving Silver Lake behind -- and apparently taking its Happy Foot/Sad Foot sign with it to a new spot in the Rampart Village area
#SilverLake
#HappyFootSadFoot
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the Chicano Moratorium and activists are trying to keep the memory alive as they travel down Whittier Boulevard in an 8-miles caravan through East L.A.
Vidiots Foundation is launching a fundraising drive as it prepares to renovate the former Eagle Theatre, which has served as a church in recent years
#EagleRock
#Vidiots
#cinematreasures
"Like a diamond in this rough,"
@thenameistwo
find a beautiful way to celebrate community in
#EagleRock
during these strange times. Members
@danielepand
and
@RealAjaVolkman
share what it was like to make "In This Rough." Their EP debuts tomorrow!
A petition to save the rotating sign was started after the owners discovered it won't fit into its new home, casting doubt about its future
#SilverLake
#HappyFootSadFoot
Remembering the birthday of artist Leo Politi (born
#OTD
in 1908) with his 1967 "Broadway at Christmas" watercolor, which was on display last year at
@IAMofLA
().
#LeoPoliti
#DTLA
This article was written by Emiliana Dore, a long-time friend of Julio Gosdinski, co-owner of the Griffith Park Carousel, who died on Aug. 7. The Atwater Village resident was 49.
The installation consists of a mural by the Oaxacan muralist group Tlacolulokos that is covered by roses made of red felt -- each representing a COVID-19 death in Boyle Heights and East LA.
City Councilwoman Eunisses Hernandez introduced a motion Wednesday calling on the city to suspend further actions relating to the proposed gondola -- that would provide access to Dodger Stadium.
@Dodgers
@EunissesH
@cd1losangeles
@LAART_gondola
Today's county public health update includes 3 coronavirus cases in Silver Lake. Previously reported cases include 5 in Boyle Heights, and 1 each in Eagle Rock, East Los Angeles and Echo Park.
#coronavirus
#covid19
"People think it is "easy" to substitute things, and they think that because we are in East L.A., things should be cheap. But I wish they knew how hard we work."
ICYMI: The wildlife experts agreed that last month's attack that killed a small dog did not indicate that P-22 had grown more aggressive, bold or desperate.
#GriffithPark
#P22
#LosFeliz