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The Westside is generally considered to be the portion of Los Angeles, California and its suburbs that lies east of the Pacific Ocean including Brentwood, west of La Brea Avenue (varying definitions set the boundary at Fairfax Avenue or even the eastern border of Beverly Hills), south of the Santa Monica Mountains, and north of the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). The Downtown Los Angeles skyline. ...
Brentwood is a district in western Los Angeles, California. ...
Santa Monica Mountains The Santa Monica Mountains are a low transverse range in southern California in the United States. ...
This article is the most common use of LAX. For other uses, see LAX (disambiguation). ...
 The Westside as seen looking north from Loyola Marymount University . The 405 Freeway is invisible on the far left side of the picture, and the large buildings in the distance are mostly along Wilshire Boulevard in the Westwood district. The tall buildings on the right side of the picture are in the Century City district. The Santa Monica Mountains are to the north. Westside or West Los Angeles area, as photographed from Loyola Marymount University on January 3, 2003. ...
Loyola Marymount University, also referred to as LMU, is a private, co-educational Roman Catholic university in the United States. ...
Business and Transportation
Many of the major educational, retail, cultural, and recreational attractions of Greater Los Angeles are located in the area, as is a large portion of the entertainment industry. Century City is the major business hub of the Westside, containing many major production corporations, talent agencies, and entertainment law firms. Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, and new developments near LAX are also important entertainment industry centers. Indeed, far more "Hollywood" business is conducted on the Westside than in Hollywood itself. The Westside rivals downtown Los Angeles for the number of people commuting to it from other areas, particularly the San Fernando Valley to the north and the South Bay to the south. The Greater Los Angeles Area is the suburban area around the city of Los Angeles, California. ...
The entertainment industry consists of a large number of sub-industries devoted to entertainment. ...
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San Fernando Valley The San Fernando Valley is an urbanized valley in southern California, lying mostly within the city limits of Los Angeles. ...
The South Bay is a region in the southwest peninsula of Los Angeles County, California. ...
The Westside's traffic congestion is legendary. Although once served by the Pacific Electric Railroad's streetcars, it was the first region of Los Angeles to be developed largely around the automobile, and is notorious for its lack of significant public transportation. Its residents are also noted for their NIMBY attitude toward transportation projects such as the Exposition Boulevard light rail line and the Wilshire Boulevard extension of the MTA Red Line subway, although this has begun to change as traffic continues to attenuate the region's quality of life. The almost transcendently gridlocked San Diego Freeway is the primary transportation corridor in the region, and much of the area's commercial development is along it. The proposed Pacific Coast, Beverly Hills, and Laurel Canyon freeways undoubtedly would have sped up the region's traffic flow, but went unbuilt in the face of massive community opposition; unfortunately, a great deal of high-density development took place in anticipation of these roadways' construction, resulting in significant congestion on the area's surface streets. In particular, getting to Hollywood from the West Side is notoriously difficult, with major east-west streets between the regions jammed during virtually all waking hours. Pacific Electric Railway company depot in downtown Los Angeles, circa 1910. ...
A taxi serving as a bus Public transport comprises all transport systems in which the passengers do not travel in their own vehicles. ...
NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) is an acronym denoting the opposition by local residents to construction of intrusive facilities, which are often intended primarily to serve people living far away: such as new roads or rail lines, power plants, waste storage facilities or the like; or those intended to...
The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, commonly referred to as LACMTA, MTA, or Metro, is the agency charged to provide public transportation to the County of Los Angeles. ...
Interstate 405 is the designation of three different tertiary interstate routes of Interstate 5. ...
Greetings from Hollywood Hollywood is a district of the city of Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., that extends from Vermont Avenue on the east to just beyond Laurel Canyon Boulevard above Sunset and Crescent Heights Boulevards on the west; the north to south boundary east of La Brea Avenue...
Culture The Westside is generally thought of as the white part of the city of Los Angeles, in contrast to Latino-dominated East Side, the Latino and Asian areas such as Pico-Union and Koreatown in and around downtown, and the black and Latino neighborhoods of South Los Angeles. Despite the two areas' relative proximity, many Westsiders rarely cross the Santa Monica Freeway into South Los Angeles, or at least they go no further east or south than the University of Southern California campus and the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. In fact, a longstanding phrase amongst Westside natives is "Life ends east of Sepulveda." For other uses, see White (disambiguation). ...
In the United States, Latino refers to non-Anglo-Americans who are living in the United States of America and are of Hispanic background, typically Spanish speaking people. ...
East Los Angeles (or The Eastside) is a general term to define a region of Greater Los Angeles that lies east of Downtown Los Angeles. ...
An Asian American is a person of Asian ancestry or origin who was born in or is an immigrant to the United States. ...
The intersection of Pico and Union Pico-Union is a district in central Los Angeles, California. ...
Koreatown, also known as Wilshire Center, is a district in the city of Los Angeles, California. ...
African Americans, also known as Afro-Americans or black Americans, are an ethnic group in the United States of America whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Sub-Saharan and West Africa. ...
South Los Angeles is the City of Los Angeles official name for a geographical region that is often known as South Central Los Angeles. ...
The University of Southern California (also known as USC), Southern Californias oldest private research university, is located in the urban center of Los Angeles, California. ...
Front of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, after its re-opening following earthquake restoration. ...
Those less inclined to view the Westside in racially reductive terms find the community to be quite culturally diverse, with most non-European ethnicities represented in an enclave or small business district somewhere in the region.
African-American The "Westside" was often mentioned in West Coast rap and gangsta rap music, especially during the mid-to-late 1990s. However, this refers to the black-dominated areas of South Los Angeles (such as Crenshaw and Jefferson Park) located west of the Harbor Freeway. While Palms, Culver City, and parts of Venice and Santa Monica have significant black populations, they have always been considered distinct from the traditionally black neighborhoods of South Los Angeles. Culver City's Fox Hills area, which adjoins traditionally upper-class black areas such as Ladera Heights and Baldwin Hills, is similarly black and wealthy, although deal-hungry white, Asian, and Latino families are an increasing presence in the district. In the 1980s, hip hop music began to break into the mainstream of the United States. ...
Gangster rap, also known as gangsta rap, (not to be confused with hardcore hip hop) is a subgenre of hip hop music which involves a lyrical focus on African American inner-city (ghetto) problems, and the violent lives and lifestyles of street-thugs and gangsters. ...
// Events and trends The 1990s are generally classified as having moved slightly away from the more conservative 1980s, but keeping the same mind-set. ...
Crenshaw (also known as the Crenshaw District) is a district in southwestern Los Angeles, California. ...
Jefferson Park is a district in southwestern Los Angeles, California. ...
The Harbor Freeway goes under many bridges as it passes through downtown Los Angeles The Harbor Freeway is one of the principal north-south freeways in Los Angeles County, California. ...
Ladera Heights is a census-designated place and unincorporated area in southwestern Los Angeles County, California. ...
Baldwin Hills is a neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA, located on the central hills overlooking the Los Angeles Basin. ...
East Asian Sawtelle Boulevard, especially between Pico and Santa Monica boulevards, became a center of Japanese business and culture in the first half of the 20th century, when restrictive covenants and laws made it impossible to purchase property in adjoining, incorporated areas. As a particular profession of Japanese in Los Angeles was gardening, the street was filled with plant nurseries and related stores. Today, many of the nurseries have been replaced by shops and offices that still cater to Japanese and Japanese-Americans, including two Giant Robot stores that feature all kinds of Japanese pop culture collectibles. A nursery is a place where plants are propagated, usually for sale as a business, though some gardeners and farmers keep private nurseries. ...
Giant Robot may refer to: Mecha or Mech, large human-piloted humanoid vehicles Giant Robot (magazine) Giant Robo, an anime series A large robot This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
Hispanic/Latino Further south on Sawtelle, in the Mar Vista neighborhood, is the traditional barrio of the Sotel gang, which draws its members from descendants of the Latino farmhands who worked the orchards and bean fields that once covered the area. Today, most of the population immediately to the southwest of the 10-405 junction is now young white and Asian professionals and UCLA students drawn to the area's cheap rents and large UCLA housing complex, but enormous Latino communities are still found in Culver City and Palms. Palms also plays host to a small, closely-knit Brazilian community, with several restaurants and shops catering to it. Barrio is a Spanish word meaning neighborhood. ...
Middle Eastern/South Asian Rancho Park and Westwood host a large Iranian/Persian exile community that is apparent by the numerous bookstores and restaurants on Westwood Boulevard with signage in both Persian and English. Beverly Hills, Santa Monica and West Hollywood have also become major destinations for upwardly mobile Persians, with ethnic Iranians comprising perhaps as much as a quarter of the population of Beverly Hills. The fondness of arriviste Persians for enormous, ornately decorated two- or three-story pink stucco mansions, usually built on lots that originally contained small bungalows or Mediterranean villas and derisively known as "Persian palaces," has generated considerable friction with the area's established European-descent population: in 2004, West Hollywood enacted strict new building regulations widely seen as targeting the Persian population. Persian (Ùارسی), (local name in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan: Fârsi), Pârsi (older local name, but still used by some speakers), Tajik (a Central Asian dialect) or Dari (another local name in Tajikistan and Afghanistan), is a language spoken in Iran, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Bahrain. ...
Further south, Palms is considered one of the major centers of Indian and especially Pakistani life in Los Angeles. Venice Boulevard is lined with numerous Indian restaurants and groceries, and a Hari Krishna shrine is located in the heart of the neighborhood. Hijab-clad Pakistani women are a frequent sight in Palms, particularly in the western blocks of the district.
"The 310" Area code 310 covers most of West Los Angeles and is commonly synonymous with it: young people often refer to the region as "the 310." Ironically, area code 310 also covers some of the poorer communities in the Los Angeles area, such as Gardena and Compton. In April 2005, local telecommunications providers petitioned the California Public Utilities Commission to overlay area code 424 onto 310, due to a projected shortfall of telephone numbers; this move has drawn considerable resistance from many affluent Westsiders, who consider a 310 telephone number as a sign of prestige. Area code 310 is an area code for telephone dialing which is roughly coterminous with West Los Angeles. ...
Gardena is a city located in Los Angeles County, California. ...
Compton is a city located in southern Los Angeles County, California, USA. It is also often considered to be the heart of the South Los Angeles area, Formerly known as a part of South Central Los Angeles. ...
West Side communities - North West Los Angeles (also known as the Westside)
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