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:

    “The freeway experience ... is the only secular communion Los Angeles has.... Actual participation requires a total surrender, a concentration so intense as to seem a kind of narcosis, a rapture-of-the-freeway. The mind goes clean. The rhythm takes over.”
    —Joan Didion (b. 1935)

    “Though all the East did quake to hear
    Of Alexander’s dreadful name,
    And all the West likewise did fear
    To hear of Julius Caesar’s fame,”
    —Robert Southwell (1561?–1595)

    “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)

    “Prejudices are useless. Call Los Angeles any dirty name you like—Six Suburbs in Search of a City, Paradise with a Lobotomy, anything—but the fact remains that you are already living in it before you get there.”
    —Clive James (b. 1939)