Comments on: Are LA Hipsters Trying To Be Eastsiders? http://guanabee.com/2007/12/are-la-hipsters-trying-to-be-eastsiders/ Spicy Coverage: Gossip, media, culture and lifestyle for Latinos. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:56:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: EL CHAVO! http://guanabee.com/2007/12/are-la-hipsters-trying-to-be-eastsiders/#comment-4283 EL CHAVO! Fri, 07 Dec 2007 07:24:24 +0000 http://guanabee.com/wordpress/?p=1692#comment-4283 You guys read too fast. The Google map is a collection of posts I do for blogging.la about places on the Eastside, as a service to those readers that dare not cross the river. It's not "the offending areas." Here's the post that kicked things off: <a href="http://blogging.la/archives/2007/06/eastside_101_hollenbeck_park.phtml" rel="nofollow">http://blogging.la/archives/2007/06/eastside_101_hollenbeck_park.phtml</a> I don't get your closing paragraph ("take the money and run") as all I'm trying to do is challenge those that would erase the sense of place that comes with the term Eastside. When Boyle Heights was a mostly Jewish area, it was still the Eastside and if new people move in fine, but the name for the place is the same. Not that the bastards have any problem writing us off the map, they're too busy yawning. <a href="http://laist.com/2007/12/06/extra_extra_123.php" rel="nofollow">http://laist.com/2007/12/06/extra_extra_123.php</a> You guys read too fast. The Google map is a collection of posts I do for blogging.la about places on the Eastside, as a service to those readers that dare not cross the river. It’s not “the offending areas.” Here’s the post that kicked things off: http://blogging.la/archives/2007/06/eastside_101_hollenbeck_park.phtml

I don’t get your closing paragraph (”take the money and run”) as all I’m trying to do is challenge those that would erase the sense of place that comes with the term Eastside. When Boyle Heights was a mostly Jewish area, it was still the Eastside and if new people move in fine, but the name for the place is the same. Not that the bastards have any problem writing us off the map, they’re too busy yawning. http://laist.com/2007/12/06/extra_extra_123.php

]]> By: militant angeleno http://guanabee.com/2007/12/are-la-hipsters-trying-to-be-eastsiders/#comment-4282 militant angeleno Fri, 07 Dec 2007 06:48:15 +0000 http://guanabee.com/wordpress/?p=1692#comment-4282 The Militant Angeleno just calls them all "gentros." The Militant Angeleno just calls them all “gentros.”

]]> By: Dan http://guanabee.com/2007/12/are-la-hipsters-trying-to-be-eastsiders/#comment-4281 Dan Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:54:34 +0000 http://guanabee.com/wordpress/?p=1692#comment-4281 @mare: Exactly, no hipster dares go past downtown. It's almost like going south of the border for them. And if they do, they're completely avoiding downtown by going slightly northeast to Highland Park and Pasadena. I used to live in Echo Park (And I'm more than likely at my tia's house there on weekends) and it's sad to see that it's pretty much on its way to become Silver Lake v2.0. If you don't believe me, American Apparel has a store there. Enough said. @mare: Exactly, no hipster dares go past downtown.

It’s almost like going south of the border for them. And if they do, they’re completely avoiding downtown by going slightly northeast to Highland Park and Pasadena.

I used to live in Echo Park (And I’m more than likely at my tia’s house there on weekends) and it’s sad to see that it’s pretty much on its way to become Silver Lake v2.0. If you don’t believe me, American Apparel has a store there. Enough said.

]]> By: chimatli http://guanabee.com/2007/12/are-la-hipsters-trying-to-be-eastsiders/#comment-4280 chimatli Thu, 06 Dec 2007 22:33:01 +0000 http://guanabee.com/wordpress/?p=1692#comment-4280 How did you all find a pic of El Chavo? How did you all find a pic of El Chavo?

]]> By: Churrasco http://guanabee.com/2007/12/are-la-hipsters-trying-to-be-eastsiders/#comment-4279 Churrasco Thu, 06 Dec 2007 22:20:11 +0000 http://guanabee.com/wordpress/?p=1692#comment-4279 Dad? Dad?

]]> By: mare http://guanabee.com/2007/12/are-la-hipsters-trying-to-be-eastsiders/#comment-4278 mare Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:31:41 +0000 http://guanabee.com/wordpress/?p=1692#comment-4278 ok so i had a brain fart this morning. you'd think i moved from LA (the place i was raised) more than only 2 years ago. pendeja me.. anyhow, i totally understand why they think silver lake etc is the "eastside". no hipster dare go past downtown. its like a manhattanite who would never go into the other boroughs. its like the west side or east side in the city. ok so i had a brain fart this morning. you’d think i moved from LA (the place i was raised) more than only 2 years ago. pendeja me.. anyhow, i totally understand why they think silver lake etc is the “eastside”. no hipster dare go past downtown. its like a manhattanite who would never go into the other boroughs. its like the west side or east side in the city.

]]> By: el smrtmnky http://guanabee.com/2007/12/are-la-hipsters-trying-to-be-eastsiders/#comment-4277 el smrtmnky Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:26:05 +0000 http://guanabee.com/wordpress/?p=1692#comment-4277 WWSGD? (what would sad girl do?) what do we call them? hisp-ters? WWSGD?
(what would sad girl do?)

what do we call them? hisp-ters?

]]> By: pocho_guey_al_norte http://guanabee.com/2007/12/are-la-hipsters-trying-to-be-eastsiders/#comment-4276 pocho_guey_al_norte Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:23:41 +0000 http://guanabee.com/wordpress/?p=1692#comment-4276 Yes. But not because what you say about gentrification is any less horrible than the tide of displacement that actually takes place. It's plain ignorant to name Silver Lake or Echo Park (the very northwest part of central L.A.) the Eastside is to somehow turn Hollywood into Central L.A. (which is the east side of the west side...). It ignores the strange way in which the Greater Los Angeles region has been sliced into small towns and unincorporated cities that are at the city's periphery and are just as much a part of L.A. But what's anything East of the Harbor Freeway now to these geographical geniuses? Is it as unknown as Bell, Florence, La Puente, or shit, El Monte? It's all Pico Rivera to them. They're doing whatever they think is alright without doing the homework and getting to know a city that is not exclusively theirs. That's what bothers me. It's like playing Guitar Hero without having even picked up a guitar and thinking that it qualifies you to be able to talk about writing a song on a guitar. Damn...hipsters are lazy. They're the Mexican's version of what angry people think about Mexicans, except that the hipsters have more money. And are white. Yes.

But not because what you say about gentrification is any less horrible than the tide of displacement that actually takes place.

It’s plain ignorant to name Silver Lake or Echo Park (the very northwest part of central L.A.) the Eastside is to somehow turn Hollywood into Central L.A. (which is the east side of the west side…).

It ignores the strange way in which the Greater Los Angeles region has been sliced into small towns and unincorporated cities that are at the city’s periphery and are just as much a part of L.A. But what’s anything East of the Harbor Freeway now to these geographical geniuses? Is it as unknown as Bell, Florence, La Puente, or shit, El Monte? It’s all Pico Rivera to them.

They’re doing whatever they think is alright without doing the homework and getting to know a city that is not exclusively theirs. That’s what bothers me. It’s like playing Guitar Hero without having even picked up a guitar and thinking that it qualifies you to be able to talk about writing a song on a guitar.

Damn…hipsters are lazy. They’re the Mexican’s version of what angry people think about Mexicans, except that the hipsters have more money. And are white.

]]> By: boooo!!! http://guanabee.com/2007/12/are-la-hipsters-trying-to-be-eastsiders/#comment-4275 boooo!!! Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:21:50 +0000 http://guanabee.com/wordpress/?p=1692#comment-4275 mare - nope. no and no. echo park and silverlake are west of downtown, west of the river, west of the 110... so it ain't "technically" east of anything, except the current gabacho center of gravity. gentrification hurts, but dont sound the alarm until they actually start holing up somewhere east of the river and south of the 110 (which, i say, wont happen). mare - nope. no and no. echo park and silverlake are west of downtown, west of the river, west of the 110… so it ain’t “technically” east of anything, except the current gabacho center of gravity.
gentrification hurts, but dont sound the alarm until they actually start holing up somewhere east of the river and south of the 110 (which, i say, wont happen).

]]> By: mare http://guanabee.com/2007/12/are-la-hipsters-trying-to-be-eastsiders/#comment-4274 mare Thu, 06 Dec 2007 18:54:57 +0000 http://guanabee.com/wordpress/?p=1692#comment-4274 well actually, thinking even more...Silver Lake etc are not West of LA so what does that make them? "East" of LA. So thats probably why they're using the term. I'm sure no gabacho hipster wants to claim the real "East LA" as their home turf unless they're in the movie American Me etc.. well actually, thinking even more…Silver Lake etc are not West of LA so what does that make them? “East” of LA. So thats probably why they’re using the term. I’m sure no gabacho hipster wants to claim the real “East LA” as their home turf unless they’re in the movie American Me etc..

]]> By: mare http://guanabee.com/2007/12/are-la-hipsters-trying-to-be-eastsiders/#comment-4273 mare Thu, 06 Dec 2007 18:51:55 +0000 http://guanabee.com/wordpress/?p=1692#comment-4273 well technically i guess it is east of LA, albeit NORTH east of it. well technically i guess it is east of LA, albeit NORTH east of it.

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