East Los Angeles


East Los Angeles may refer to:

  • East Los Angeles, California, an unincorporated community in Los Angeles County, east of the Boyle Heights district of the City of Los Angeles
  • East Los Angeles (region), also known as the Eastside, part of the City of Los Angeles, west of the unincorporated community

Famous quotes containing the words los angeles, east, los and/or angeles:

    “If Los Angeles is not the one authentic rectum of civilization, then I am no anatomist. Any time you want to go out again and burn it down, count me in.”
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    “We have heard all of our lives how, after the Civil War was over, the South went back to straighten itself out and make a living again. It was for many years a voiceless part of the government. The balance of power moved away from it—to the north and the east. The problems of the north and the east became the big problem of the country and nobody paid much attention to the economic unbalance the South had left as its only choice.”
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    “If Los Angeles is not the one authentic rectum of civilization, then I am no anatomist. Any time you want to go out again and burn it down, count me in.”
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    “Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled.”
    —Joan Didion (b. 1935)