The mosaic portrait of Jim Jones outside Ivanhoe Elementary in Silver Lake. (Hayes Davenport/L.A. Material)
ROWENA AVE IN SILVER LAKE is lined with coffee shops, low-rise apartment buildings, and a bunch of cement planters, each about the size of a kindergartener. The plants inside are drought-tolerant, and they don’t appear to be checked on very often. Some of the planters feature mosaic art on the sides — playful designs, like flowers and butterflies.
And one of the mosaics is a portrait of Jim Jones: the cult leader who led more than 900 adults and children into a mass murder-suicide at a settlement in Guyana known as “Jonestown” in 1978.
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