Echo Park's Short Stop Has a History as Dark as Its Interior

Local historian Rory Mitchell shares the bar's secret history in a six-minute video.

Posted Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 1:16 pm PT|Updated Tue, May 7, 2013 at 1:42 pm PT

We're getting a little nostalgic about our bars on Sunset Boulevard, with the changes at Little Joy and beyond.

Well, Echo Park's Short Stop on Sunset remains a raucous stop on a Saturday night.

Owned since 2001 by a consortium of entertainers, the bar has a long history--and not always as a bar, or even as a cop bar.

The storefront once housed a fur shop, a confectionary store and even a laundromat.

Echo Park resident and historian Rory Mitchell has made an excellent video about the Short Stop and its links to the LAPD and the underground.

Watch that in the gallery above. And tell us what you think.

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