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:

    “Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers.”
    —Christina Stead (1902–1983)

    “The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab.”
    —Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)

    “Of Eva first, that for hir wikkednesse
    Was al mankinde brought to wrecchednesse,
    For which that Jesu Crist himself was slain
    That boughte us with his herte blood again—
    Lo, heer expres of wommen may ye finde
    That womman was the los of al mankinde.”
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    “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)