Recently, Chicken Corner heard from Steve Zeleny, archivist for the Foursquare Church, in regard to the lotus bed that used to flourish in Echo Park Lake across from the Angelus Temple.

Zeleny wrote:

A while back you wrote [for the Echo Park Historical Society] about the history of the lotuses in Echo Park Lake. I had reason to research this this morning, and I thought you might be interested in what the documents in the archives of the Foursquare Church revealed.