Highland park

Where to eat, shop, and drink in Los Angeles’s Highland Park neighborhood.

It recently came to my attention that a fellow L.A. Weekly scribe published a piece heralding Echo Park as the greatest of L.A.'s many fine neighborhoods. While I have nothing against Echo Park personally, and have spent many an evening cruising its colorful streets in search of entertainment and/or street...

From cocktails to yoga and coffee to vintage shops, we share our favorite Highland Park spots. The neighborhood of Highland Park in Northeast Los Angeles has made quite a name for itself over the last few years. Generally beating out fellow “trendy” hoods like Echo Park and Silver Lake in local conversations among Angelenos, Highland Park […]

Parking lot behind Sears, Roebuck and Co. store, Highland Park, Michigan

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In 1895, with difficult access to water and need for police presence in an increasingly rowdy red light district, Highland Park was annexed to the city of Los Angeles, creating one of its first suburbs.

A view of Highland Park California from it's early days to the present

OK, then. We have lined up the full Highland Park The Valhalla Collection, and at long last we can taste them all in one go. It's a bit like having waited for that final book in a very exciting trilogy (or trilogy in four parts (yeah, you know the one, right?)), and the author cannot write the book

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