OCTOBER 20, 2014 VOLUME VI, ISSUE II
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Visiting Echo Park
The Best Store in Koreatown
and Emely told me Ralphs is open 24 hours.
Kaylin Lopez
Ally Song
Many people visit Los Angeles and come to Echo Park. Many visitors have to go around by themselves or sometimes with a friend. For example, Harris Kornstein said, “I came to Echo Park because it was on the way back to San Francisco and my friend lives up the valley and I’ve never been here before.” He also mentioned, “It is nice to see people walking around Echo Park.” Visitors don’t know about a great tour which shows them around the great sights and buildings of Echo Park. The tour is a walking tour but still very interesting. Visitors get to know Echo Park with more details about what they see through the tour.
Hello my name is Ally Song and I’m going to tell you what the best store in Koreatown is. It’s a store that is very close to my house. You can buy a lot of useful things there. You can buy food, you can buy kitchen tools, and you can even buy a box of crackers! If you can’t find things you need, workers help you.
My mom was there at the interview and she wanted to know what it was like to work as a Courtesy Clerk. Emely told me her job was bagging groceries for the customers, organizing carts, making sure customers have a pleasant shopping experience, keeping a neat and organized store, being a cashier, and overall making it possible for the store to thrive comfortably.
The tour is great and goes to many of the landmarks of Echo Park. For example, Jensen’s Recreation Center, Angelus Temple, and the lake which all represent Echo Park.The tour is two hours long because it also includes some of the stairways across from the lake.
Can you guess what store I’m talking about? It’s Ralphs in Koreatown! To get some answers about what makes this Ralphs important, I interviewed Emely who works there as a Courtesy Clerk. She likes her job. Emely told me that workers there remember the aisle numbers by going through them one by one. Workers at the store try to memorize where certain things are and what matches each category. It is not hard working at Ralphs, but it can be challenging at times because the store gets really busy. She told me she works six hours a day for just two days a week, Mondays and Tuesdays.
Emely likes working at Ralphs, she said people are very nice in general. People like me. P.S. Visit Ralphs, the best store in Koreatown.
I asked Emely where the products come from and she told me Ralphs gets products from three different warehouses in Riverside, Compton, and Glendale. I wanted to know how long Ralphs has been open for
The Hollywood Sign
Griffith’s Greatness
Cheyenne Williams
Joon Kim
I think it’s cool when you see the Hollywood sign and you know right where you are. To me, it’s a sign near my house that I see on the way to school every day. To others, it’s where all the movies are made. The sign means many things to many people: movie stars, palm trees, and film reels. But why was it built in the first place, and will it always be here?
Out on the mountains of Los Angeles, there sits not only the famous Hollywood sign, but also the Griffith Observatory, a paradise for scientists and astronomers. This shows all kinds of facts, displays, and even shows about the great world called The Universe. In the first room, you’ll see the pendulum that shows the forces of gravity. Now if you’re worried about money, there’s no point. It’s actually FREE!
The Hollywood sign was built by Harry Chandler on Mt. Lee in 1923. At first the sign said “Hollywoodland” to advertise the real estate he was building. It was originally an electric sign with bulbs that lit up the night. In 1949, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce got rid of the “LAND,” and fixed the letter “H.” In 1978, they rebuilt it, and there was no sign at all for three months! Today the sign is still standing, it’s in good shape, and when you see it, you know right where you are.
The first tour starts at 10:00 a.m. and begins at the boathouse. The tour includes many things except for the insides of buildings. The tour can also introduce people to restaurants and stores along Sunset. On the tour one of the great places it goes to is Elysian Park. Elysian Park is the oldest public park in the city and second largest, after Griffith Park. It is a great place to go for a walk with its great trails. The tour is really great, but another way to find out about Echo Park is to simply walk around. A visitor named Harris said, “I just got here, I’ve only gone to a restaurant, the food is good though. I also found some neat clothes at Out of the Closet.” The stairways are popular public stairs that go across Echo Park’s hillsides. Many of the stairways are shortcuts to streets but can also lead to great sites. Echo Park is great for visitors because it has many great things to do and places to go.
First off, we need to understand about how it all began. It all started with a man named Griffith J. Griffith. He was born in Wales in 1850 and came to America as a teen. In fact, the land where the observatory AND the park was once a part of a Spanish settlement known as Rancho Los Feliz. Griffith thought that a great city like Los Angeles needs a great park. (New York had Central Park, why shouldn’t Los Angeles have a park?) On December 16, 1896, he donated 3,015 acres of Rancho Los Feliz to create a park with his name. He also offered the city $100,000 just to create an observatory. He died in July 6, 1919. We can now conclude that this is a king of all observatories. It contains every space fact you would expect and unexpected facts. (I will not spoil the place for you so I will not talk much about the rooms.) Yes, indeed, Griffith was a great man, as many of the folks of Los Angeles say.