Awesome!

Cool map!

Love the Virgen de Guadalupe surfboard.

That. F’ing. Rocks.

And due to plate tectonics, we’ll end up being the westside of SF!

And that will probably be the only way we’ll have a subway to the sea.

In anticipation of Diego’s righteous portending, perhaps the MTA should hire Disney to do the inevitable Subway UNDER the Sea.

You mean Burbank isn’t in the Eastside?

I think Disney would much rather build a monorail, que no?

I’m new in L.A. I don’t get it – what’s the problem? People are misusing the term ‘East L.A.”?

Fredo, I think the confusion arises when people assume that any part of LA that isn’t “the Westside” must be “the Eastside”; so they apply that term to places like Silver Lake and Echo Park, which may not be “the Westside”, but are still to the west of downtown.

This tends to irritate people in places like Boyle Heights, El Sereno, and East Los Angeles, which are east of downtown, who’ve been calling their own area “the Eastside” since long before the hipsters migrated to Silver Lake.

Having the name appropriated like that ticks them off.

This confusion can be seen most clearly when people start debating what is the “dividing line” between Eastside and Westside.

The thing is, there’s a lot of stuff in between the Eastside and the Westside that isn’t really either one. You can’t really draw a “dividing line”, because the two areas aren’t contiguous.

Those of who live in the Valley find these debates endlessly amusing. :-)

Thanks for the synopsis Mapnerd. I didn’t know you lived in the San Gabriel Valley! ;)

Heh. :-)

It could be worse, too. In Brooklyn, there has always been a collective sneer at the East River, which boldly implies that Manhattan is the end of the world. Then there is the other side of the city and how it perceives Los Angeles, et al.

The worst of it is that for a long time, East L.A. has been marginalized,ignored, misunderstood, feared, and pretty much made to feel like we don’t exist by the media and others.
One of the few claims to fame it has is to be known historically
as the “Eastside”. Adding Insult to injury is to discover that the
very people who’ve been turning up their noses at us, (especially the SNOOTIEST of westsiders) now appropriate our name without even an aside. The feeling is kind of like someone pulling the chair you were sitting on out from under you while saying “Oh Buffy! Here’s a chair
I found that we can sit on, NOBODY was using it!”

Mr Satan, in all my years internet-ing I’ve never had the occasion to use this acronym but I can finally say, you had me ROTFL! The buffy chair analogy is hilarious!

Around 6:30 tonight, I heard the announcer on KCRW refer to MacArthur Park as being in the Eastside.

DB: Of course, MacPark is located in a neighborhood known as…WESTlake!

Indeed, MacArthur Park was “Westlake Park” before it was renamed for MacArthur.

Just as Lincoln Park was “Eastlake Park” before it was renamed for Lincoln.

Ah, the good old days, when people still knew how to read a compass. :-)

Pffth. It’s all northside to me!

Thanks Chavo, i’m gonna have to jack this comic holmes.

Chavo, I’ll give you the precedence of the whole eastside/ELA thing on the web. But you darn well know that any bonafied EastLosSider like yourself has been correcting cats from highland park, montebello and echo park with the whole “that aint East LA” thing at house parties and gigs since the early 90s.

Another geographical falsehood perpetuated by ignorant westsiders is that Long Beach is somehow part of Orange County. Or even that it’s “like” Orange County. East LA is distinct from Silverlake, and Long Beach is distinct from OC. Completely and totally.