Cruise down Echo Park Ave. Descend along with the numbers and shine your tear-drop spot at addresses painted on the curb until you hit the 500 block- oh. Who put that there?
When our unknown driver swallowed his last, perhaps the final image burned on his retina was of spires atop once-stately Victorian homes, pointing heavenward from the unmovable earth of Bunker Hill.
Skyscrapers mark those mansion’s end; Mr. Anonymous’ end on Echo Park is paved and rushed over by endless commuters. Freeways divide and destroy neighborhoods: adjacent streets like Lucita and London were wiped away by the 101. A few blocks east were streets like Centennial and Custer, also obliterated, there by the 110.
A police pursuit with a violent end? Would have made for fine live news coverage. Oh, that KTLA had seen fit to purchase Sikorskys.
