The Echo Park Time Travel Mart on Sunset Boulevard is not what it seems. A sign across the otherwise unremarkable building reads: "Whenever You Are, We're Already Then." Inside you will find dinosaur eggs incubating on shelves, sand-filled bottles of "Time," (five minutes, $5.99; one day, $9.99; one year, $17.99), tubes of "Human Emotions for Robots," "Dead Languages" in jars. An oblivious window shopper might mistake the store for another overpriced tchotchke shop, chock-full of clever but... More »
