The other night I was walking home and came
across a big empty space of nothing where a drab old pink apartment
building used to be, right in front of my house. Whaa?! Jenny Burman at Chicken Corner is on the case. CurbedLA commenters, too. Sometimes the EXP homies would use this building's private walkway as a shortcut to get from Echo Park Ave. to Laguna Ave. and up the staircase to upper Angelino Heights. Walking past again tonight, I rattled its chainlink fence for a bit, hoping for ghosts or signs of life. No response. For some reason, losing 860 Echo Park Ave. makes me feel a little like this:
Photo by Martin Cox for Chicken Corner.