Echo Park, Los Angeles, California (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"For my family of hundreds from Rubidoux to San Bernardino, Riverside to Sacramento, Los Angeles to Albany, Ontario to Echo Park, Anaheim to Los Feliz, Corona to Calexico."

"I drove the truck from Rialto all the way to Echo Park."

"we drove to Echo Park. And the night was miraculously clear as it rarely is in Los Angeles, and the moon hung sadly in the sky as unconcerned as the world..."

"and it is, because now I'm in Echo Park, where a queen, camping by the head, calls out, 'Hi babe—welcome to Jenny’s tearoom—and, you understand, I'm Jenny, and this is my tearoom"

"I headed west again: Echo Park, old houses, fine artists in them. I didn’t like the neighborhood; it was too close to where I’d started."

"He remembered his first trip North, hotbedding in a two‐room apartment in Echo Park with thirty‐two other men, sleeping in shifts and lining up on the streetcorner for work…"

"reminded him of his first stay in Los Angeles, in the filth of Echo Park."