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Other Interesting Trivia Relating to OLL and Community Question 1:

What brand new Warner Brothers television show (premiered on September 24, 2007) actually is filmed in Echo Park with the pilot showing scenes of Taix Restaurant, The Echo and Sunset Boulevard?

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Other Interesting Trivia Relating to OLL and Community Question 2:

Can you name the MISS MEXICO who was married at Our Lady Of Loretto Church in July 1982 and is related to an OLL alumni?

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Other Interesting Trivia Relating to OLL and Community Question 3:

What "After School Special" television production was filmed at OLL Elementary School in 1974 and also had several students as extra actors?

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Other Interesting Trivia Relating to OLL and Community Question 4:

What OLL Alumni (Class of 1960) played in over 300 Major League Baseball games as a catcher and was actually drafted by the Cubs before the Hall Of Fame catcher Johnny Bench in the 1965 baseball draft?

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Other Interesting Trivia Relating to OLL and Community Question 5:

A famous boxer of the 1920's lived on Burlington Avenue and later raised horses that were used on many old western movies, can you name him?

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Other Interesting Trivia Relating to OLL and Community Question 6:

Name the OLL church regular attendee and a member of one of California's "Founding Families" who's last name is eternally preserved who lived in the neighborhood on Burlington Avenue?

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Other Interesting Trivia Relating to OLL and Community Question 7:

What local neighborhood racing legend who lived on North Lake Street was killed at the Indianapolis 500?

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Other Interesting Trivia Relating to OLL and Community Question 8:

What OLL Alumni was the youngest Chief Of Police in the State of California and was given the unique title of "Chief Of Police Emeritus" upon his retirement in 2004?

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Other Interesting Trivia Relating to OLL and Community Question 9:

What OLL Alumni was crowned "Miss Philippines of Los Angeles" in 1966?

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Other Interesting Trivia Relating to OLL and Community Question 10:

What song did Tommy Koulax (The owner of Tommy's Hamburgers) inspire the legendary Bobby Darin to write?

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Other Interesting Trivia Relating to OLL and Community Question 11:

What OLL parishioner and devote Catholic has had her art exhibited worldwide and her unique style of art can be seen in over 500 churches in the USA alone?

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Other Interesting Trivia Relating to OLL and Community Question 12:

What former Angelino Heights resident not only founded one of the biggest banks in Los Angeles, but also one of L.A.'s most influential hospital?

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Other Interesting Trivia Relating to OLL and Community Question 13:

What was the fine for speeding on Glendale Boulevard in Echo Park in 1922? You really have to read this one !!!

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Other Interesting Trivia Relating to OLL and Community Question 14:

What is the story behind Felix Chevrolet and why has the "Felix The Cat" cartoon been acting as their advertising logo since the early 1920's when the dealership opened in downtown Los Angeles?

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Other Interesting Trivia Relating to OLL and Community Question 15:

What professional roller derby star grew up in Echo Park?

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Other Interesting Trivia Relating to OLL and Community Question 16:

What world renowned Director who has a daughter that is now a major movie actress and who directed Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor in "The Maltese Falcon" lived in Echo Park?

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Other Interesting Trivia Relating to OLL and Community Question 17:

What 20 year old superstar actor in 1992 lived briefly at 1613 Altivo Way with friends in Echo Park and was registered at that address in voter registration documentation filed in 1992 ... Hint, he plays a lot of tournament poker in his spare time?

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Other Interesting Trivia Relating to OLL and Community Question 18:

What radio station opened it's transmitters in the hills of Echo Park in 1969?

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Other Interesting Trivia Relating to OLL and Community Question 19:

What happened at the Krispy Kake Kone Kompany on July 15, 1949?

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Other Interesting Trivia Relating to OLL and Community Question 20:

What 1907 explosive event put the Edendale area of Echo Park into the national news?

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Other Interesting Trivia Relating to OLL and Community Question 21:

What famous office product was invented by an Echo Park resident who lived at 1565 Altivo Way and became an everyday product in offices, businesses and many homes worldwide?

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Other Interesting Trivia Relating to OLL and Community Question 22:

What former Echo Park restaurant owner, real estate salesman and resident wrote and had his novel about Echo Park successfully published in July 2000?

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Other Interesting Trivia Relating to OLL and Community Question 23:

What Echo Park resident and renowned poet published a selection of her poetry in a 1991 book relating to Echo Park?

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Other Interesting Trivia Relating to OLL and Community Question 24:

What long term resident of Echo Park published a novel about Echo Park in French, a full 7 years before it was released in the USA in English?

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Other Interesting Trivia Relating to OLL and Community Question 25:

What 1959 OLL graduate has risen to the heights of Deputy Chief of Police for the City of Los Angeles?

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Other Interesting Trivia Relating to OLL and Community Question 26:

What West Kensington Street, Angelino Heights resident had a school, park and library named after him?

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Other Interesting Trivia Relating to OLL and Community Question 27:

What superstar actor moved to Los Angeles in 1955 and bought his first house on Vestal Street in Echo Park?

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Other Interesting Trivia Relating to OLL and Community Question 28:

What is Our Lady of Loretto the patron saint of?

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Other Interesting Trivia Relating to OLL and Community Question 29:

What botanical record does Echo Park Lake hold over every other lake in the USA?

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Other Interesting Trivia Relating to OLL and Community Question 30:

The most ever paid for a painting is $140 Million. The artist who painted this record breaking work of art spent much of his teenage years living in the Echo Park area in the late 1920's. Can you name this artist who had Pablo Picasso as his main adversary and competition in the 1930's and 40's?

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Other Interesting Trivia Relating to OLL and Community Question 31:

What recent fictional best selling novel has an association with the community and describes many well known landmarks around OLL?

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Other Interesting Trivia Relating to OLL and Community Question 32:

What 1960's/1970's civil rights activist (and on the FBI most wanted list) took refuge in Echo Park area while the subject of a nationwide hunt?

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Other Interesting Trivia Relating to OLL and Community Question 33:

What famous Mexican born artist and syndicated cartoonist was a member of the OLL Parish and was buried from the church on his untimely death at the age of only 39 in 1955?

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Other Interesting Trivia Relating to OLL and Community Question 34:

How did OLL have a hand in the establishment on Cathedral High School?

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