Legend says that Echo Park got its name from workers building the original reservoir said their voices echoed off the canyon walls. However...

After years of searching, LAist has found the “echo” of Echo Park. And wouldn’t you know, it wasn’t even in that neighborhood. No, Echo Park’s “echo” has been trapped at the birthplace of Los Angeles: at Olvera Street.

In the plaza there, inside the only bandstand in the City, an echo lives that is unlike any other. It must be -- it has to be -- that legendary echo of Echo Park, somehow trapped at the heart of Los Angeles. Now, maybe it’s because this is the former site of a water storage tank that, too, probably had an impressive echo. And perhaps water from Reservoir #4, which was later renamed Echo Park Lake, was stored in this water tank?

Regardless, if you can stand inside at the center of that bandstand, you will be surrounded by an echo like none you’ve ever heard before. Go ahead, try it. And this coming Monday would be a perfect time -- just check out the City's St. Patrick’s Day Parade that starts at Olvera Street. When the parade has ended, go check out the bandstand and the City’s most impressive echo.