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Where does the Westside start?
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Nathan
11 years, 6 months ago
West of the frontier, with some overflow.
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Adriane
11 years, 6 months ago
The East border should be Doheny Drive from Sunset all the way south. It should include Playa del Rey and ...
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JAtheDJ
11 years, 6 months ago
Everything west of La Brea from Hollywood to LAX
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L.A. Native
11 years, 6 months ago
The Westside is about big money real estate and big corporate industry! It is the Mid-Town Manhattan of L.A. Its ...
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Dustin
11 years, 6 months ago
To a visitor, the "Westside" should be just about anything west of Downtown. It's the west side of LA. As ...
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Michael Urena
11 years, 6 months ago
My understanding, as instructed by Westsiders ten years ago, is the 405.... but given that Culver City has the studios ...
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Carson
11 years, 6 months ago
The westside is what Ice Cube and all those rappers mention in their songs. Compton, Long Beach, Inglewood. Let's keep ...
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Ian
11 years, 6 months ago
People have just made the west side an exaggeration, it is like people made a township out of it. The ...
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Dylan
11 years, 6 months ago
I think it extends north to Mulholland and east to La Cienega. I'd describe it to an out-of-towner as the ...
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Malcolm
11 years, 6 months ago
Your map is way too big! Also I want to say, commiserations to Ghana and Africa, so close.
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CMW
11 years, 6 months ago
My father grew up in Los Angeles. Anything west of Main Street is SUPPOSED to be the Westside. The street ...
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kat
11 years, 6 months ago
any thing west of downtown!
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drb
11 years, 6 months ago
Where does Westchester/LAX fit? Most definitions of "South Bay" that I've heard ends at Rosecrans Blvd., though some also include ...
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Tenorio
11 years, 6 months ago
Ok. As an east-sider whose neighborhood's designation as the east-side has been usurped by metro, silver-lake, echo-park, etc., I see ...
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Cleveland
11 years, 6 months ago
Anything west of the Mississippi is the "west side"
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Willie Eichenberger
11 years, 6 months ago
LaCienega to the East Mulholland to the North Manchester to the South Pacific Ocean
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Kellz
11 years, 6 months ago
Pacific palisades over to beverlyhills are definitely not in it, they are not the same people. This is the west ...
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Doog
11 years, 6 months ago
Westside means west of the 405, plain and simple.
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david lewis
11 years, 6 months ago
Talk to someone from South Central and the Westide includes Crenshaw and Venice Blvd...it's weest of them. But as a ...
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Matt M
11 years, 6 months ago
I consider the Westside to be (in general) that sprawling mix single family homes, multilevel shopping centers and mid-rise corporate ...
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Rob
11 years, 6 months ago
The Westside is bound on the east by the 405 Freeway; the northern boundry is Pacific Palisades-Brentwood (ie, foothills of ...
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SMB&Bundy
11 years, 6 months ago
I think people are confusing West LA and "The Westside". West LA is a small neighborhood consisting of the 90025 ...
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Mork from Ork
11 years, 6 months ago
isn't "west" hollywood sorta NORTH of beverly hills... and BH is it's own region, so is it West LA? ...
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Jason B
11 years, 6 months ago
Culver City is NOT part of the "Westside"
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nate
11 years, 6 months ago
I meant to include Marina Del Rey.
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nate
11 years, 6 months ago
Hmmm....West of Western- too far west methinks, but it would make sense on a linguistic level. Fairfax or La Brea ...
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Sue
11 years, 6 months ago
Pacific Palisades - 405 freeway - Marina del Rey
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Peggy
11 years, 6 months ago
West of Sepulveda from Santa Monica to Marina del Rey.
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Jodi Boyd
11 years, 6 months ago
The problem with the Times map, and tool given to us to draw our own map, is that it is ...
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Adam D
11 years, 6 months ago
I agree with the times for the most part, however don't forget my neighborhood of Playa del Rey and Westchester. ...
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westsiderider
11 years, 6 months ago
from diego to the bay, nikka
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Tres Satva
11 years, 6 months ago
West of La Brea is the west side. West side is where the city gets boring, white and suburban. East ...
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Inlander
11 years, 6 months ago
West of Hwy. 101 from Oregon to Mexico, with a few exceptions. The socio-economic divide between coastal and inland California ...
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Dennis Wingo
11 years, 6 months ago
Just remember, there is no life east of Sepulveda.
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Some LA guy
11 years, 6 months ago
ROLFMAO.. Richard! well said.. lol.. "The Westside begins, and ends, just beyond the end of your nose. Westsiders do not ...
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Ty
11 years, 6 months ago
The Westside is the pocket surrounding the 10 primarily west of the 405
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tiffany
11 years, 6 months ago
west is west..i do agree
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Norma Carlyon
11 years, 6 months ago
Hey, the West side is the The West Side! Not Beverly Hills, or Bel Air or Culver City. That is ...
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Jim C
11 years, 6 months ago
To me, the west side means west of the 405, south to Playa del rey and north to Malibu.
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Jessica
11 years, 6 months ago
Malibu to Marina Del Rey and West of the 405
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JulieE
11 years, 6 months ago
The Westside means quick beach access but has different meaning if you're in BevHills or say Park LaBrea--then everything West ...
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Brad
11 years, 6 months ago
Definitely west of the 405 then likely north of the Marina, and bordered by Sunset or something on northside.
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N.Clay
11 years, 6 months ago
"The Westside is the Best-side!" has been our battle cry since I was a kid, being raised in Santa Monica ...
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Grandma Crankypants
11 years, 6 months ago
Do it by climate zone for planting. Instead of economic zones or social barriers --as is usually the case. http://www.sunset.com/garden/climate-zones/sunset-climate-zone-los-angeles-area-00418000067298/
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Curtis from Venice
11 years, 6 months ago
It's the string of cities and neighborhoods along the beach North of LAX, West of the 405, and South of ...
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luis reyes
11 years, 6 months ago
the westside is everything west of downtown. by definition, the east side is everything east of the l.a. river, and ...
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Sammy
11 years, 6 months ago
The original Westside used to be south of the 10, west of 405 and go to the 90. It is ...
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Fred
11 years, 6 months ago
The 'L. A. Times' - if it wants to increase its readership - should be less in awe of the ...
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Chris
11 years, 6 months ago
Pretty Standard... With the addition of Silverlake. It's really the Venice of Downtown.
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Ethan
11 years, 6 months ago
Southern Border's got to be near the river, so I'll put it at Jefferson. There's no way Westwood, Bel Air, ...
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