826LA & The Mar Vista Time Travel Mart

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12515 Venice Blvd., Los Angeles CA 90066

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Monday
Closed
Tuesday
12 - 6PM
Wednesday
12 - 6PM
Thursday
12 - 6PM
Friday
12 - 6PM
Saturday
12 - 5PM
Sunday
Closed

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The Mar Vista Time Travel Mart is your convenience store for time travelers. We also provide creative writing programs for students in LA. All of our programs are free and volunteer based. Proceeds from the store help support and keep our programs free.

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At first glance, the inside of this storefront resembles any other market in the area?but look closer and you?ll find a collection of funny ?time travel? curiosities that one needs in order to visit the past and future. Oddities include Robot Toupees, Aeon Bottled Time (i.e. sand in a bottle), Barbarian Repellent, Primordial Soup In a Can, and a whole bunch of books. What?s going on? The market is a ruse: everything in it is indeed for sale, but the store is actually a front for 826LA, a nonprofit organization which tutors kids ages 6 to 18. Founded by author Dave Eggers, 826LA gives free creative writing classes to kids. All the books in the store? They?re written by those children. Unlike the Echo Park location's convenience mart theme, the Mar Vista outpost has more of a nautical flair.

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