West Side-East Side

[Jay100]

The dividing line has always been the LA River, across the bridges. Anything west of the river is either central or west. Echo Park, Silverlake are central if not west.

[majoun]

Originally Posted by majoun

East side - East of the L.A. River
West side - West of La Brea
Everything in between is Central.

Correction.

and yes, Silver Lake and Echo Park are central LA not Eastside.

[the one]

and for a while very jewish. and very japanese.

now its just very latino.

Originally Posted by nmnita

I haven't lived in L.A for a zillion years and it sounds like you think the bounderies are about the same as I thought years ago. East L.A was about the other side of the river, yes, to the edge of Whittier. I would never think of Las Feliz, Echo Park or Silverlake as being west or east, just what they are, districts within the city. Same as I have never heard Eagle Rock referred to as north L.A. it has always been Eagle Rock. East L.A. has been known as the barrio for decades. Believe it or not, back in the 40s Boyle Heights was pretty much an Italian neighborhood.

Nita

[Robert90033]

The area between the western edge of Downtown L.A. and Western Ave. is the old westside. It is the "western Addition" to the City as it initially pushed westward towards the ocean. Western Ave. does not mark the beginning of the westside, as so many erroneously believe, but rather marked the western boundary of the City.
So a few names which would be appropriate for this area would be West-Central L.A., Old Westside, Historic Westside, Near Westside. And if anyone insist on still calling it the eastside then call it the eastside of the westside, because that is exactly what it is. It's the eastern portion of the Greater Westside region of the City.

Oh, and by the way, there has always been a "Mexican presence" in Los Angeles since it's beginning, not that they have always been appreciated, but that's another story. So along with all the Jews, Italians, Japanese, Russians, Austrians, Anglos, Blacks and various other racial and ethnic groups that have lived on L.A.'s eastside through the decades, there has also been Mexcians and Mexican-Americans (Chicanos), living among them. It's not like they just popped on to the scene 20 or 30 years ago.