CACalifornia field entry
Echo Park Time Travel Mart
Los Angeles, CA
A convenience store for time travelers where Mammoth Chunks, future supplies, books, kitchen goods, toys, apparel, writing gear, student publications, and impossible products from every era fill three little aisles.
The Echo Park Time Travel Mart is a real retail front for 826LA's youth-writing programs, selling books, toys, household goods, apparel, stationery, and student publications alongside fictional survival supplies supposedly imported from the past and future.
Field notes
Why it belongs
Bookstore, toy shop, stationery store, kitchen-and-home shop, apparel retailer, nonprofit fundraiser, student-publishing outlet, and fully committed fictional time-travel convenience store.
The concept turns normal retail categories into an immersive joke visitors can physically browse, while purchases support the writing center behind it.
The Echo Park Time Travel Mart looks like a neighborhood convenience store designed for customers who may have arrived from the Jurassic period or several centuries in the future. Real shelves of books, toys, stationery, household items, apparel, writing supplies, and 826LA student publications mix with fictional products built around prehistory, wormholes, future technology, and apocalypse survival. The storefront exists as part of 826LA, whose free youth-writing programs receive the proceeds, making the entire experience equal parts store, literary project, nonprofit fundraiser, and time-travel gag.
Store contents
What you will find
Directory categories
Known for
- Time-travel convenience-store concept
- Mammoth Chunks and fictional historic-future goods
- 826LA student publications
- Books
- Writing supplies
- Toys and games
- Household and kitchen goods
- Nonprofit youth-writing mission
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