Eastside Los Angeles

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East Los Angeles was founded in 1870 by John Strother Griffin (1816–1898), who was called "the father of East Los Angeles".{{Cite book |last=Barrows |first=H.D. |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41167720 |title=Memorial Sketch of Dr. John S. Griffin |work=Annual Publication of the Historical Society of Southern California and Pioneer Register |year=1898 |volume=4 |location=Los Angeles |issue=2|pages=183–185 |publisher=University of California Press, Historical Society of Southern California |doi=10.2307/41167720 |jstor=41167720 }} In late 1874 the two men offered an additional thirty-five acres, divided into 65x165-foot lots, for $150 each.{{Cite web |title=Street Name |url=http://www.eastlosangeles.net/streetnames.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130530053051/http://www.eastlosangeles.net/streetnames.html |archive-date=2013-05-30 |access-date=2012-08-20 |website=EastLosAngeles.net}}{{Cite book |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/163923464 |title=Founder of Cities |date=1898-08-24 |work=Los Angeles Times |page=1|id={{ProQuest|163923464}} }} They planned the laying out of streets of the present community of East Los Angeles and gifted East Side Park (the present Lincoln Park) to the city of Los Angeles.{{Cite book |url=http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/xtf/view?docId=griffin-john-s-john-strother-1816-1898-cr.xml |title=Griffin, John S. (John Strother), 1816–1898 |work=Social Networks and Archival Context Project|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017075226/http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/xtf/view?docId=griffin-john-s-john-strother-1816-1898-cr.xml |archive-date=October 17, 2013 }}

The Mapping L.A. project of the Los Angeles Times defines the Eastside as comprising Boyle Heights, El Sereno, Lincoln Heights, and East Los Angeles. However, the boundaries are a matter of perennial discussion and debate among the residents of Los Angeles.{{Cite news |last=Esmerelda Bermudez |date=February 18, 2014 |title=East is East, but Eastside is open to debate |work=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-eastside-battle-20140218-dto,0,6508792.htmlstory |access-date=February 18, 2014}}

The Mapping L.A. definition corresponds to the traditional boundaries, but, beginning in the early 21st century, residents of some of the rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods west of Downtown Los Angeles but on the eastern side of Central Los Angeles, such as Echo Park and Silver Lake, began to refer to their neighborhoods as part of the Eastside. This debate generated some friction, which, according to Ali Modarres, an expert on the geography of Los Angeles from the University of Washington Tacoma, is to be expected because neighborhood names are "full of meaning, nuances, history, cultural and political relationships". Eric Garcetti, former mayor of Los Angeles and a fourth generation resident, is a traditionalist, stating that "true east is east of downtown".

File:Eastside_Northeast_Los_Angeles,_1916_map_of_annexations.jpg and Rancho San Pascual]]

The trend led the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council to declare officially in February 2014 that Silver Lake is not part of the Eastside.

The Sixth Street Viaduct, also known as the Sixth Street Bridge was demolished. Prior to the demolition, Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti recorded the rap song "101SlowJam", backed by musicians from Roosevelt High School, and issued it via a video on his own YouTube channel. The public service announcement video advertised the closure of parts of the 101 Freeway to accommodate the demolition of the viaduct.{{Cite web |last=Pedersen |first=Erik |date=January 28, 2016 |title=[WATCH] 101 Freeway Closure: LA Mayor Eric Garcetti Slow-Jams Reminder |url=https://deadline.com/2016/02/101-freeway-closure-los-angeles-mayor-eric-garcetti-slow-jam-video-1201697381 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160206135557/http://deadline.com/2016/02/101-freeway-closure-los-angeles-mayor-eric-garcetti-slow-jam-video-1201697381/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 6, 2016 |access-date=February 6, 2016 |publisher=Deadline}}{{youtube|a_3tTv4lPds|#101SlowJam}}

File:CSULAStudentUnionBLDG.jpg, Student Union and Luckman Auditorium, 2010]]

The official East Area Planning Commission area of the City of Los Angeles is divided into the following communities:[https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=da2e20211f8c4c2ca94a6c49e0b5e091 Area Planning Commission (APC)], Boundaries for the seven (7) Area Planning Commissions as established by Ordinance No. 173,492. Feature Layer by GIS@LADCP. Created: Feb 28, 2018. Updated: Dec 31, 2019.

• Boyle Heights
• Lincoln Heights
• El Sereno
• Northeast Los Angeles{{Cite web |title=Historic Resources Survey Report |url=https://planning.lacity.org/odocument/853c78a4-1dff-4abc-ab4d-2ba08e4c7dbd/SurveyLANortheastLosAngeles_SurveyReport_.pdf |website=Northeast Los Angeles Community Plan Area |publisher=lacity.org}}
• Atwater Village
• Cypress Park
• Eagle Rock
• Garvanza
• Glassell Park
• Hermon
• Highland Park
• Montecito Heights
• Mount Washington
• Rose Hills

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The Mapping L.A. project by the Los Angeles Times lists the following City of Los Angeles neighborhoods in its definition of the Eastside:

• Boyle Heights{{Cite news |title=Los Angeles Times Neighborhood Project |work=The Los Angeles Times |url=http://projects.latimes.com/mapping-la/neighborhoods/neighborhood/boyle-heights |access-date=2010-04-11}}
• El Sereno
• Lincoln Heights

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The following data applies to the boundaries of the Eastside established by Mapping L.A.:

In 2000, 286,222 people lived in the 20.66 square miles of the Eastside region, amounting to 13,852 people per square mile.

The neighborhood was "not especially diverse" ethnically, with a high percentage of Latinos. The ethnic breakdown was Latino, 91.2%; Asian, 5.2%, white, 2.3%; black, 0.7% and other, 0.6%. Just 5.1% of residents aged 25 and older had a four-year college degree. More than two-thirds (66.8%) of the inhabitants lived in shared housing, and 33.2% were homeowners.{{Cite news |title=The Eastside |work=Mapping L.A. |publisher=Los Angeles Times |url=http://maps.latimes.com/neighborhoods/region/eastside}}

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• Latino Walk of Fame - East Los Angeles
• Mariachi Plaza - Boyle Heights
• El Mercado de Los Angeles - Boyle Heights
• Calvary Cemetery (Roman Catholic) - East Los Angeles
• Home of Peace Cemetery (Jewish) - East Los Angeles
• Evergreen Cemetery - Boyle Heights
• Estrada Courts Murals - Boyle Heights
• El Pino (The Pine Tree) - East Los Angeles

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• will.i.am (William James Adams, Jr.), musician, producer, philanthropist{{Cite web |date=2009-04-14 |title=will.i.am's Aha! Moment |url=http://www.oprah.com/spirit/Black-Eyed-Peas-Singer-williams-Aha-Moment |website=Oprah.com}}
• Herb Alpert, trumpeter, producer
• Narciso Botello (about 1813–1889) Mexican Army officer, California State Assembly member{{Cite news |date=1889-11-21 |title=Death of Narciso Botello |page=2 |work=Los Angeles Herald |url=http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85042460/1889-11-21/ed-1/seq-2}}
• Anthony Quinn, actor{{Cite web |title=Anthony Quinn Public Library |url=http://www.colapublib.org/libs/quinn |website=Los Angeles County |access-date=October 17, 2013 |archive-date=December 23, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171223212157/http://www.colapublib.org/libs/quinn |url-status=dead }}
• Howard E. Dorsey, engineer, politician{{Cite web |title=Reference file |url=http://dbase1.lapl.org/webpics/calindex/documents/04/290299.pdf |website=Los Angeles Public Library |quote=This file was compiled in 1937 by Works Progress Administration worker Clare Wallace from an interview with Dorsey on June 23 of that year and from newspaper articles.}}
• Jaime Escalante, educator{{Cite news |date=2010-04-17 |title=Honoring a legendary teacher and his legacy |work=Los Angeles Herald |url=https://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-escalante17-2010apr17,0,7196329.story}}
• Kid Frost, musician{{Cite web |last=Huey |first=Steve |year=2006 |title=Frost Biography |url={{Allmusic|class=artist|id=p17735|pure_url=yes}} |access-date=2008-12-18 |publisher=allmusic}}
• John Strother Griffin (1816–1898), surgeon, founder of East Los Angeles, member of Los Angeles Common Council
• Oscar De La Hoya, boxer
• Edward James Olmos, actor{{Cite book |last=Bethel |first=Kari Francisco |title=Edward James Olmos |work=Contemporary Hispanic Biography |publisher=Gale |year=2002 |isbn=0-7876-6538-X |editor-last=Henderson |editor-first=Ashyia N. |volume=1 |location=Detroit |page=156}}
• Dan Peña, financial analyst on Wall Street
• Luis J. Rodriguez, writer and activist{{Cite web |title=Luis J. Rodriguez |url=https://www.luisjrodriguez.com}}
• Andy Russell, international recording artist
• Hope Sandoval, singer-songwriter{{Cite web |title=The Official Website |url=http://www.hopesandoval.com/bio.shtml |publisher=Hope Sandoval}}

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File:Self-Help-Graphics.png|The Self-Help Graphics & Art building

File:CASA 0101.jpg|CASA 0101 Theater in Boyle Heights{{Cite web|title=CASA 0101 Theater|url=http://www.casa0101.org}}

File:Mariachi Plaza Station LACMTA.jpg|L Line Mariachi Plaza Station, 2009

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• My Family/Mi Familia, Motion Picture of life in East Los Angeles
• Born in East L.A., motion picture
• Chicano, ethnic term
• East LA Classic, football game
• Blood In Blood Out, motion picture
• City Times in Los Angeles Times suburban sections
• Zoot Suit Riots, 1943
• Ten Latino neighborhoods in Los Angeles County

• {{Cite book |last=Romo |first=Ricardo |title=East Los Angeles: History of a Barrio |publisher=University of Texas Press |year=1983 |isbn=0-292-72041-6 |location=Austin, Texas}}
• {{Cite web |title=Jewish American Heritage |url=https://www.laconservancy.org/jewish-american-heritage |access-date=2015-12-20 |website=The Los Angeles Conservancy}}

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• [https://www.theeastsiderla.com/ The Eastsider LA]
• {{wikivoyage-inline|Los Angeles/Eastside|East Los Angeles}}
• [http://www.elaguide.org East LA Guide]

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