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Echo Park, Los Angeles, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1768 words) |
 | Bordering the park are the cathedral of the Episcopalian diocese of Los Angeles and the famous Angelus Temple, a large Foursquare Gospel church built by Canadian-born Pentecostal evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson in 1923. |
| Echo Park was home to the Metropolitan Street Hockey League (MSHL) from 1971 until 1977, one of the first organized street hockey and roller hockey associations in the Los Angeles area, and which produced the Preston Sharks, winners of the street hockey city championship in 1974, 1975 and 1976. |
| Echo Park is and continues to be home to the world famous, Echo Park Ducks, originally formed in 1967 as a loosely organized social, sports and community activist club, and which attracted many of the hippies and free spirits of the area at the time. |
| Glen Echo Park (630 words) |
| The park is located in one of the three ravines north of the Ohio State University Campus. |
| In particular, the Glen Echo Ravine is in Clintonville. |
| The ghost of a gothic girl is said to hand out on or near the park bridge near the middle of the park and the ghost of a homeless man who froze to death hangs around the drainage tunnel that runs beneath the Indianola Bridge. |
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