Elysian Park, Los Angeles, California
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Park
A park is a protected area, in its natural or semi-natural state, or planted, and set aside for human recreation and enjoyment, or for the protection of wildlife or natural habitats. It may consist of rocks, soil, water, flora and fauna and grass areas. Many parks are legally protected by...
and adjacent neighborhood in the City of Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...
.
Encompassing Chavez Ravine
Chávez Ravine
Chavez Ravine is an area in Sulfir Canyon that is the current site of Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California.It was named after Julian Chavez, a Los Angeles Councilman in the 19th century.-History:...
where Dodger Stadium
Dodger Stadium
Dodger Stadium, also sometimes called Chavez Ravine, is a stadium in Los Angeles. Located adjacent to Downtown Los Angeles, Dodger Stadium has been the home ballpark of Major League Baseball's Los Angeles Dodgers team since 1962...
is located, Elysian Park is mostly a hillside community that is also home to the Los Angeles Police
Los Angeles Police Department
The Los Angeles Police Department is the police department of the city of Los Angeles, California. With just under 10,000 officers and more than 3,000 civilian staff, covering an area of with a population of more than 4.1 million people, it is the third largest local law enforcement agency in...
Academy.
The park itself is the second largest park in Los Angeles at 600 acres (2.4 km²). It is also the city's oldest park, founded in 1886 by the Elysian Park Enabling Ordinance. It hosted the shooting
Shooting at the 1932 Summer Olympics
When shooting was reintroduced at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, the extent of the competitions was far from those in the previous Games: it consisted of only two events, one rifle event and one pistol event, and no team events at all . The competitions were held on August 12, 1932 and...
and the shooting part of the modern pentathlon
Modern pentathlon at the 1932 Summer Olympics
The modern pentathlon at the 1932 Summer Olympics-Individual competition:...
events for the 1932 Summer Olympics
1932 Summer Olympics
The 1932 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the X Olympiad, was a major world wide multi-athletic event which was celebrated in 1932 in Los Angeles, California, United States. No other cities made a bid to host these Olympics. Held during the worldwide Great Depression, many nations...
. In 1964 the Citizens Committee to Save Elysian Park was founded to prevent the City of Los Angeles from constructing the Municipal Convention Center on 62 acres (250,905.3 m²) of park land. Parkside residents enjoy the large and fruitful avocado
Avocado
The avocado is a tree native to Central Mexico, classified in the flowering plant family Lauraceae along with cinnamon, camphor and bay laurel...
trees that grow in the park.
Elysian Park is bordered by
Echo Park
Echo Park, Los Angeles, California
Echo Park is a hilly neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, northwest of Downtown Los Angeles and southeast of Hollywood.-History:At the end of the 19th century, when the hills were still covered with native vegetation, a horse-drawn streetcar line served the dirt road that is now Echo Park Avenue...
on the west, Chinatown on the south and the 5-Freeway, Cypress Park and Elysian Valley on the north.
The Figueroa Street Tunnels
Figueroa Street Tunnels
The Figueroa Street Tunnels are a set of four four-lane tunnels that carry northbound traffic on State Route 110 through Elysian Park in Los Angeles, California, United States. From south to north, the four tunnels measure 755, 461, 130 and 405 feet in length, 46.5 feet in width, and...
take northbound State Route 110 (the Pasadena Freeway
Pasadena Freeway
The Arroyo Seco Parkway, formerly known as the Pasadena Freeway, is the first freeway in California and the western United States. It connects Los Angeles with Pasadena alongside the Arroyo Seco. It is notable not only for being the first, mostly opened in 1940, but for representing the...
) through the park. The southbound lanes are higher, in a cut.
Surrounding neighborhood
The neighborhood is composed of mostly middle-class residents living in small tucked-in developed areas of the western portion of the park. This residential area blends in to the Elysian HeightsElysian Heights, Los Angeles, California
Elysian Heights is a neighborhood within Echo Park in Los Angeles, California, in the United States.It is part of the Echo Park - Elysian Park area. Before the Glendale Freeway was built, it was also part of the neighborhood known as Edendale....
quarter of Echo Park.
Media
A season five episode, "Elysian Fields", of The CloserThe Closer
The Closer is an American crime drama, starring Kyra Sedgwick as Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson, a Georgia police detective who often closes her cases using sometimes-questionable methods...
features the park as the location where murder victims were buried. A season two episode, "The Prisoners", of Cannon
Cannon (TV series)
Cannon is a CBS detective television series produced by Quinn Martin which aired from March 26, 1971 to March 3, 1976.The primary protagonist was the title character, Frank Cannon, played by William Conrad....
also features the park as the location where ransom money paid to release a kidnap victim was delivered.
See also
- Ned R. HealyNed R. HealyNot to be confused with Don R. Healy, Los Angeles labor leader of the 1940s and 1950s.Ned Romeyn Healy , who went by Ned R. Healy, was a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council in 1943 and 1944 and a member of Congress from 1945 to 1947.-Biography:Healy was born August 9, 1905, in...
, Los Angeles City Council member, 1943–44, member of Congress, 1945–47, opposed slant oil drilling under the park