On June 5, Virgin/EMI will release The Best Of David Bowie 1980-1987: Sight Sound. It's one of those CDs with a DVD snuck in there. 19 audio tracks of Bowie’s best '80s jamz like "Blue Jean" , “Let’s Dance,” “Modern Love,” and “China Girl”.
Plus 15 videos from that era plus DVD release debut vids for “The Drowned Girl” and “When The Wind Blows.”
Virgin/EMI will also re-release the Bowie classic Young Americans, 33 years after it came out, giving it all the expanded Special Edition CD/DVD magic we've become accustomed to. That CD/DVD will also come out on 06/05/07.
To celebrate, we will be giving away both of these cds to a random reader who leaves a comment below explaining where they think the Eastside of LA ends and the Westside begins. So tell us and maybe you will win!
Contest ends noon on June 1 so get to it.
Easy- 101 north of downtown- Silverlake is 'East' Hollywood and Highland is not.
South of Downtown is tougher, I am going to go with the 110. With the 105 as the south boundary.
'West side' thus includes the rich folks in the valley south of the 101, West Hollywood, but not Silverlake.
Technically, if you read the street signs, the Eastside of L.A.
begins at Main Street.
I saw an earlier story on LAist (the one about Los Angeles Magazine) that said that the Westside of L.A.
begins at the 405 Freeway. I know that the residents of Beverly Hills and Century City would be surprised to know that they were on the Eastside.
I'd say La Cienega, only because I remember the 1992 Riots sort of stopped around La Cienega where I think the police set up a perimeter there, sort of like thier 'last stand' if they couldn't get a handle on things.
It also depends upon how far south you go. South of the 10 freeway, its La Cienega. North of the 10, it varies because there are wealthy areas (Larchmont, Hancock Park, Los Feliz) that are well east of La Cienega.
I just flew over LA the other evening, and as far as measuring out all the sprawl, the westside/eastside dividing line of greater LA should be somewhere in West Covina.
As far as lesser LA goes, the 405 makes a good dividing line if you're measuring things in terms to travel time (and you're stuck in Santa Monica at 4pm on one of those clusterf**k nights).
My official entry: Westside is west of the mean high tide line.
The rest is eastside. Because the Best of Bowie 80/87 is like saying The Best of the Worst of Bowie. IMHO.
: )
If you must face west or south to look at downtown LA, you definitely live on the East side.
If you must look east to see downtown, but your rent is low, then you live in Mid-City.
If you must look east to see downtown, and the Metro rail doeesn't go anywhere near you, then you live on the Westside.
Well, the pithiest comment so far goes to #8, but you can in fact find good tacos at Tacos Por Favor, Don Felix and the two Tacomiendos—all firmly entrenched on the West Side. Speaking of tacos though, the two King Taco locations furthest west are around Hoover and Alvarado—not a bad place to draw an east/west line.
Anyway, I think it's worth mentioning that many (I might even say most) West Side/East Side debates don't consider East LA and "the East Side" to be synonymous.
(If they did, the debate would be academic.) Often the debate is concerned with the area between downtown and the ocean—everything up to East LA.
That said, I think La Brea makes as good a dividing line as any.
And to #12: I wouldn't call the area that is home to, for example, Mario's, a no-man's land.
As a major Bowie fan but rather unknowing Angeleno (Angelena, does that work?), I have to say that I wish that this contest asked for favorite Bowie songs, or favorite Bowie moments, or best of all where Bowie thinks the Eastside ended and the Westside begins.
But alas, this is website dedicated to LA (and then some), so my official entry?
Uhhh..
before reading all of these seasoned responses, I would probably blurb something like...
the dividing line is...
...
uhh..Glendale off the 2!
, and then wait for uproarious and patronizing laughter from behind computer screens across the county.
Actually, that is my official entry, because I don't have a better answer. I'm heavily relying on chance for this one.
However, the issue may be resolved by the Expectorate Test:
If you can spit and hit an inappropriately-yoga-pants-clad trophy-wife, you're on the Westside.
If you can spit and hit a tatted, trustafarian hipster with a jet-black dye-job, you're in the east.
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