Michael Linder500 Trick-or-Treaters Swarm the Haunted Victorian Mansions in L.A. from Voice Media Group on Vimeo.
On Halloween, masses of the best-informed trick-or-treaters did not head to upscale Beverly Hills or Toluca Lake, where word went out on some TV and radio that you could get full-sized candy bars.
No, the smart crowd chose Angelino Heights, L.A.'s rare, circa-1880s neighborhood on a bluff above Echo Park Lake. The once-derelict neighborhood is now filled with dozens of carefully preserved, spooky Victorian mansions. It's the city's worst-kept secret on Halloween as residents go all-out to scare the growing throngs who stream to streets like Carroll Avenue and imagine they're in a century where Jack the Ripper or a cackling green witch rule.
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Haunted house on Carroll Avenue, Angelino Heights.; Credit: Michael Linder
There, Planaria Price and Murray Burns, who L.A. Weekly featured in its 2007 People issue, have helped lead a privately funded (largely), magical transformation of a once crime-ridden, tumbledown and forgotten corner of Los Angeles.
See Also: Planaria Price and Murray Burns, Mr. and Mrs. Fix-It, and How a Los Angeles Resident Saved an Entire, Amazing Neighborhood.
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