Walking Man of Silver Lake Remembered By a Long, Long, Walk
Jul 26, 2010
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The walk started at the park at Van Pelt and Silver Lake, where a local radio station set up a booth and handed out paper bracelets with the words, “Dr. Marc Abrams Now Walks on Water.” Someone brought a bullhorn and neighbors each said a few words, including one who read a brief statement from his wife, Cindy. After about 20 minutes, the walk began, along West Silver Lake, Rowena, Hyperion, Griffith Park, Sunset, Silver Lake, and then another loop around the reservoir.
The couple hours we spent on the walk reaffirmed why so many of us love to live in Silver Lake. The neighborhood has had its ups and downs, more of an up recently. But at a time when many of us don’t know or even care about our neighbors, it’s comforting living in a place where we do know each other, do look after everyone’s homes, and do what we can to make this unique pocket of LA even better. And we all appreciated what Dr. Abrams brought to the neighborhood—he made the neighborhood eclectic without trying to show how eccentric he was. He was just himself, just part of the fabric. To him those walks were just a normal routine.
All kinds of gossip are coming out in the media about Dr. Abrams, which is always easy to do when someone passes on and cannot defend himself. But for an afternoon, many of us who never knew him but just appreciated him honored his memory by just taking a nice long walk. He probably would have been embarrassed by all the attention—including a visit from two city council members—but he certainly deserved yesterday’s tribute.
