Echo Park Time Travel Mart

Posted by Dirk on Tuesday, June 7, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Any time travels planed in the near future (or past, for that matter)? Then you should visit the Echo Park Time Travel Mart in Los Angeles, the local time travel store that provides you with your basic time travel merchandise and services. As it is said on the storefront: “Whenever you are, we’re already then”. But the best part is, it is real. You have doubts? Well, here you go (pictures courtesy of laughing squid):

But what really impresses me is the detailed and leisurely implicitness of the execution. That’s a totally different take on shop interior design. Let’s take a look around:

Here is the back story: The Echo Park Time Travel Mart is run by 826LA, a non-profit organization “dedicated to supporting students ages 6 to 18 with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write”. 826LA is part of 826 National, which has several unique storefronts around the US. So, you’re more into space travel? Your robot broke down? Or you want to got an a crime fighting spree as a masked vigilante? No problem: