East is East in Los Angeles

Thank you Pat Morrison for writing about the idiotic trend of people calling Los Angeles areas, which lie west of Downtown LA, names such as "Eastside". Main Street has always served as the dividing line: go east from there and the streets are labelled "east", such as East Third Street; go west of Main St. and the streets are labeled "west", such as West Olympic Blvd.!

Some people want to call Silverlake, Echo Park and Mt Washington the Eastside. Rediculous. In the early 1900's there were two ends of the city. A west end at Western Ave and a east end at Eastern Ave. End of story.

3-31-09 UPDATE: The Los Angeles Times posted a story regarding this issue today.  I'm glad there are other people interested in fighting the ignorant geographical view of many people living in Silverlake and Echo Park.