![]() If life won’t give you lemons, you can’t make lemonade. But soon he realized there wasn’t enough water to irrigate it. It was 1893 when neighborhood pioneer James Monroe Hartley decided to start a lemon orchard on 40 acres north of the city’s biggest park. But as someone who first encountered this neighborhood decades ago and renewed the acquaintance in recent weeks, I know there’s a backstory - by turns inspiring and horrific - just beneath its well-decorated surface. ![]() Many of North Park’s most visible assets, including the mural, the LaFayette’s new incarnation, the listening bar and seafood restaurant Mabel’s Gone Fishing, have only shown up in the last two years. The neighborhood “has really blossomed,” he told me. ![]() Or his evil twin.Īs I approached the crazed face, I found longtime North Park local Jay Lind already on the sidewalk, grabbing photos with his phone. Here, you’ll find breweries and gastropubs, a seafood joint that recently won praise from the Michelin people, a listening bar with a stash of buyable classic vinyl in the backroom, and a 90-foot-long mural outside Verbatim Books that features a typewriter protruding from the roof and a crazed face in a doorway between oversize horror books. Stay up to date on the best things to do, see and eat in L.A.
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