" Echo Park Lake had become a citywide attraction by 1920, perhaps not as large as Westlake or Hollenbeck Park, but a lovely setting nonetheless. It was also poised to become the site of a major transformation, with the coming decade delivering the biggest economic boom the Los Angeles had ever seen.

        The 1920s brought a new wave of development to the neighborhood and the surrounding city, with Spanish-style cottages and apartments coming into vogue. The much more romantic style, prompted in part by servicemen who had seen Europe during World War I, brought an end to the Craftsman, or Arts and Crafts, architectural style.

        Where there had been farmhouses or vacant lots, builders added Spanish-style courtyards and apartments with arched windows and red-tile roofs around the lake. The structures graced Logan Street, Laguna Avenue and Glendale Boulevard -- or ran up the steep hills of Echo Park Avenue."


Streetcars were her way of getting up the steep hills
and one would run right down to the end of her very steep street.

Hollywood was an influential industry in this area of Los Angeles.

Eleanor's mother, Dorothy, who died when she was born, worked for the studios.

She came here from New York because of her love for the cinema.

In New York, she was a theater lover and attended many productions

on Broadway. No doubt, Hollywood held a special place in her heart.


"Prior to World War I, years before Hollywood became the movie capital, the Los Angeles film industry was centered in Echo Park. Mack Sennett’s Keystone Studio was in Echo Park until the end of the silent era, and a large number of silent comedies were shot in the neighborhood, as were several Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin, Our Gang, Ben Turpin, Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, Charley Chase, Chester Conklin, Three Stooges shorts, and several Westerns were shot along the hillsides of Echo Park."