Eastside refers to a collection of neighborhoods within the city of Los Angeles. The use of the term Eastside should not be confused with East Los Angeles, the unincorporated community east of Los Angeles. The term Eastside was revived in the 1990's. East Los Angeles, California (unincorporated community) East Los Angeles (region) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

The Eastside includes Los Feliz, Silver Lake, Echo Park, Atwater Village and Highland Park. Gentrification has been an issue for all of the Eastside. Los Feliz (usually pronounced Loss Feeliss by most non-Spanish-speaking locals) is a neighborhood in the north-central region of the city of Los Angeles, California. ... Silver Lake is a Los Angeles neighborhood east of Hollywood. ... Echo Park is the name of a neighbourhood in Los Angeles. ... Atwater Village is a neighborhood in northeast Los Angeles, California. ... Highland Park is a neighborhood of northeast Los Angeles. ... This once impoverished part of Jersey Citys historic downtown is quickly becoming gentrified. ...

The communities that comprised the Eastside, with the exception of Los Feliz went into decline after the Second World War, in part due to the flight of middle class families to the suburbs. Each neighborhood developed a slightly different way; Silverlake became a magnet for the gay community, Echo Park and Atwater Village became notorious for gang related activity. Most of the Eastside became predominately middle and working class Latino however a large ethnic mix eventually settled the area.

Cultural perceptions

In the 1990s modernist homes became in vogue with the many homes in the northern Silverlake hills being very desirable; also many Westside residents became disenchanted with the traffic and density of the Los Angeles Westside. Relatively low real estate costs and an active arts scene made the Eastside attractive to a younger generation of "Hipsters". Angelinos regard the resulting culture they created in the current turn of the century as a reaction to the perceived shallowness of Westside culture; many Eastside residents now perceive themselves as less class and race conscious, more down to earth, and less self centered then the Westside. Some Westside residents regard this attitude as hypocritical they note that many of the Eastsiders are employed in the same industries, shop at the same types of shops and have the same class and ethnic makeup as themselves. Also, Silver Lake and especially Los Feliz have become as expensive as the Westside (in the case of Los Feliz, housing prices rival some of the most expensive areas on the Westside). // Events and trends The 1990s are generally classified as having moved slightly away from the more conservative 1980s, but keeping the same mind-set. ... The Westside as seen looking north from Loyola Marymount University . ...

Historically the Eastside used to refer to South Los Angeles, that usage ended after World War II. South Los Angeles is the City of Los Angeles official name for a geographical region that is often known as South Central Los Angeles. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km (over 11 miles) into the air, August 9, 1945 after the Allied atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. ...