According to our 50-Year Calendars (available for sale at the Echo Park Time Travel Mart), 826LA East has been open for almost two months! Over that time, students have produced stories about stars, rabbits, brothers, monsters, worm-eating kings, and spinners—the mysterious devices kept handy by our time-traveling students in case of caveman attacks, robot malfunctions, or completed homework.

We’ve also seen plenty of changes around here: our office space has been transformed into, well, an office, complete with freshly painted desks and new windows. We recently had lovely new floors poured in the store and the writing lab, and have gained possession of a couch, chairs, and a giant chalkboard (big enough for blueprints of our time travel machine, the parts of which can be seen in our rug-covered storefront windows).

While the store currently looks like a battlefield from the Fourth Punic War (not coming soon, don't worry), our informants from the future tell us that it will be set-up and fully functional by the end of the month. As it is, we are open to any wanderers in need of robot emotions, centurion helmets, or our totally awesome Echo Park Time Travel Mart T-shirts, which are also available in our online store. We hear they’re all the rage in 2188.