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 gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang’s feeble imagination.”
    —Henry Miller (1891–1980)

    “Once did She hold the gorgeous East in fee;
    And was the safeguard of the West:”
    —William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

    “Local television shows do not, in general, supply make-up artists. The exception to this is Los Angeles, an unusually generous city in this regard, since they also provide this service for radio appearances.”
    —Fran Lebowitz (b. 1950)

    “Cities are ... distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.”
    —Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)