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Time Travel Mart

Time Travel Mart, Echo Park

The "Time Travel Mart" in Echo Park.


The Time Travel Mart stores in Echo Park and Mar Vista describe themselves as “convenience stores for time travelers,” where goods from the past, present, and future can be purchased. Customers can find, among other things, PASTports, time scout gear, replacement robot arms, robot toupees, jars of tar pit, and books about time travel. Proceeds go to support 826LA, a non-profit literary organization that tutors students ages 6 to 18 with creative and expository writing skills, and helps teachers to inspire writing among students.