Writer Joseph W. Smith observes that "Her tale occupies only two of the novel's 17 chapters. Hitchcock and Stefano expanded this to virtually half the narrative". Also inside the grounds of the reservoir are many well known recreational services: the Silver Lake Recreation Center, which includes an adjacent town park the Silver Lake Walking Path, which circumnavigates the reservoirs (2.25 miles) two enclosed pet dog parks, and the Silver Lake Meadow, modeled immediately after NYC's Central Park Sheep Meadow. The place known as Ivanhoe to the north of the recent reservoir was initially produced by Byram & Poindexter as early as 1887, named for Sir Walter Scott's ebook of the exact name with a lot of streets in that area referencing other will work and characters these types of as Herkimer, Rowena, Kenilworth, Ben Lomond, Hawick, and St. George. In the community of Silver Lake lies the namesake reservoir composed of two basins, with the reduce named Silver Lake and the upper named Ivanhoe. Much of the Silver Lake Residential Historic District is linked with this tract. As of 2020, Silver Lake is represented by Los Angeles City Council Members Mitch O'Farrell and Nithya Raman and the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council. Some bath residences, which acted as social spaces for homosexual gentlemen, have been shut down by the town govt in an effort to curb the distribute of the virus.