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Postcards from SoCal: Time Travel and Tutoring

April 2, 2009
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On this week's "Postcards from SoCal," the web team visits the Echo Park Time Travel Mart on Sunset Blvd. The store sells products that one might find if they traveled waaaay back in time: canned mammoth meat, chain mail, leeches and donuts from 1985. But the kitschy store is really a way to support a non-profit tutoring and writing center housed in the same building, called 826LA. Time travel and tutoring all in one postcard.

To volunteer at 826LA, check out their website.

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