On Name That Los Angeles Neighborhood!
Hi there! So I can kind of explain the signs. The Department of Transportation makes these signs whenever a councilmember or neighborhood council group gets together and decides to name a neighborhood.
Nobody keeps track of these things. The City doesn't even know how many of these neighborhood signs actually exist.
For info on the process of getting the sign made: http://ladot.lacity.org/community.htm
The LA Times did a neighborhood mapping project where they tried to define the different neighborhoods, using comments from LAT readers. It's actually pretty interesting.
http://projects.latimes.com/mapping-la/neighborhoods/
ETA: Also, the Brookside is because apparently in some of those fancy Hancock Park homes, there's a brook. Like, actual real water.
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On Why Did Web Gross-Out Culture Die?
Because when cats show us their bunghole, it's adorable.
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On Los Angeles Awl Bawlers Will Be Awl Bawling At Tomorrow's Awl Bawl Tomorrow In Los Angeles
I'm hungover.
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On Los Angeles Awl Bawlers Will Be Awl Bawling At Tomorrow's Awl Bawl Tomorrow In Los Angeles
I'll be the one in stripes with the incredibly disgruntled facial expressions and the rum in her cleavage.
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On Los Angeles Awl Bawlers Will Be Awl Bawling At Tomorrow's Awl Bawl Tomorrow In Los Angeles
Dirty secret? LADOT's sign shops just make those signs whenever some councilperson gets together with some neighborhood association/council and decides to call some area, some name. Nobody keeps track of it. They don't even have a list of all the neighborhood signs that have been made. They're not even in the same format.
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On Los Angeles Awl Bawlers Will Be Awl Bawling At Tomorrow's Awl Bawl Tomorrow In Los Angeles
Incidentally, how much DO drinks cost here? I've never actually been IRL.
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On Los Angeles Awl Bawlers Will Be Awl Bawling At Tomorrow's Awl Bawl Tomorrow In Los Angeles
I'm going and probably with a flask hidden in my bra because I am so poor right now it isn't even funny.
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On Save the Date: Party in LA on August 10
On an entirely different note, I am a frequent reader and infrequent commenter so I want to go but nobody will know who I am.
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On Save the Date: Party in LA on August 10
The Dresden is Los Feliz at best and East Hollywood at worst. This is just like that time that a business on 6th and Westmoreland tried to pretend it was in Silver Lake.
Lies! Lies!
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On Name That Los Angeles Neighborhood!
"There’s a major street called Western that’s on the Eastside of Los Angeles, which you should never confuse with East Los Angeles, because East Los Angeles is also a separate city, to the east of Downtown Los Angeles."
Oooh, also, people freak out if you refer to anything west of the LA River as the Eastside. That includes Silver Lake and Echo Park, which, if anything, are like North Central LA. The Eastside starts at the River.
Why are we so crazy?