East Los Angeles

American  

noun

1. a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.

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Example Sentences

“For two years, we lived in the attic of a family friend’s house in East Los Angeles. When my dad saved enough to buy a home, we moved to Pacoima, in the San Fernando Valley,” Russell told the Journal.

From MarketWatch

On Saturday afternoon, East Los Angeles resident Edgar Reyes came out to see the super-sized artwork being created in real time.

From Los Angeles Times

Cesar E. Chavez Avenue is more than six miles, cutting through the working-class communities of Boyle Heights, East Los Angeles and Monterey Park.

From Los Angeles Times

On a recent Monday afternoon in a small Mexican diner, not far from the 710 Freeway in East Los Angeles, Gricel Gonzalez, 57, gazed out the window at the avenue.

From Los Angeles Times

Huerta recounted Chavez coming to her home in East Los Angeles in 1961 and telling her “we have got to start the union. If we don’t do it, nobody else will.”

From Los Angeles Times