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13 unusual facts about East Los Angeles


Abel Stearns

Stearns died on August 23, 1871 at age 72 in the Grand Hotel, San Francisco, California, and is interred at Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles.

Dragon Mob Records

Dragon Mob Records is an East Los Angeles, California based hip-hop record label that was created by music composer J-vibe, abstract artist Hsky and executive producer Smax in 2002.

East Los Angeles

East Los Angeles, California, an unincorporated community in Los Angeles County within the above region

Eastside Los Angeles, a geographic region that includes three neighborhoods within the city of Los Angeles— Boyle Heights, El Sereno and Lincoln Heights—and the unincorporated community listed below

El Mercado de Los Angeles

Built in 1961, El Mercado de Los Angeles is located in the heart of East Los Angeles on the corners of 1st St. and Lorena St. El Mercado is a popular three floor in door swap meet that offers dining and restaurant services, entertainment with live mariachi bands, and shopping from various vendors.

Enchirito

The Enchirito was originally made by a high school student in East Los Angeles in 1968.

Isidore B. Dockweiler

He was interred in Calvary Cemetery (New Calvary Catholic Cemetery) in East Los Angeles.

Lou Clayton

He is interred at the Home of Peace Cemetery in East Los Angeles.

Osher Zilberstein

He was buried at Home of Peace Cemetery in East Los Angeles, California.

Richard Polanco

A native of East Los Angeles, California, he graduated from James A. Garfield High School where he served as senior class president.

Their Dogs Came with Them

Their Dogs Came With Them follows the lives of 4 Mexican American young women living in East Los Angeles during the 1960s.

She wanted to tell the story of every Mexican American living in East Los Angeles during the political and social upheaval of the 1960s-1970's.

Ygnacio Sepulveda

A requiem mass was celebrated on December 5 at Saint Agnes Church, Vermont Avenue and West Adams Street, and interment followed at Calvary Cemetery.


Barbara Kopple

Her first non-documentary feature film, Havoc, starred Anne Hathaway and Bijou Phillips as wealthy suburbanites who venture into East Los Angeles Latino gang territory, and was released straight to DVD in 2005.

Cal-Style VW

Los Angeles VW Car Clubs like the "Bugs Buddies" and the "Vintage Volksters" were the pioneers of this style, building Cal-Style VWs to cruise LA landmarks – like the original Tommy's Burgers, and the iconic Whittier Boulevard in East Los Angeles – and to impress the LA teen party crowd.

Francisco Bravo Medical Magnet High School

Bravo Medical Magnet is named after Francisco Bravo, a well-known physician who practiced in East Los Angeles, established his own clinic, and founded a scholarship fund for needy high school students interested in the health science professions.

Gloria Molina

One of Molina's significant achievements was her involvement with the Mothers of East Los Angeles, a group formed to organize against a proposed plan to build a prison in East LA.

Jack Rudy

After leaving the Marines in 1975, Rudy began his career as an apprentice at Goodtime Charlie’s Tattooland, in East Los Angeles.

Jay Mathews

Mathews’s book Escalante: The Best Teacher in America traces Jaime Escalante’s career from his native Bolivia to Garfield High School in East Lost Angeles, where he taught advanced mathematics courses to disadvantaged high school students, mostly Latino.

Mothers of East Los Angeles

Mothers of East Los Angeles (MELA), started in 1986, as a group of Latina mothers under the guidance of Monsignor John Moretta of Resurrection Church with the dedication to fight the proposed construction of a state prison in East Los Angeles by Governor Deukmejian.