Talk:Silver Lake, Los Angeles, California

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[edit] Gay Community?

Why was this Area written about as the Gay Community in Los Angeles. The "Gay" Communitty is West Hollywood. Silverlake is for hpsters and Alternative Artists...no matter what their Life Style is...besides Silver Lake is Still (as of this day in 2005) a Predominently Straight Latino Area...however the"Art community has a Comparitively large "Gay'population.

-Dave Teague

The gay commu"nitty"? Hehehehehe. That's rich. Made my bleepin' day. Love - the gay commUNITY in Silver Lake.

Silver Lake has been a major gay center longer than West Hollywood - in fact the gay rights movement began there. You're obviously not familiar with the area. The difference between the two, prior to gentrification bringing in hipster types and then yuppies, was that West Hollywood was upscale and virtually all white whereas Silver Lake gays tended to be working class and ethnically mixed, with a large Latino and Asian element. The Sunset Junction festival was originally a gay festival - gentrification has caused it to lose its gay identity. While there are certainly large numbers of gays who attend the festival, it is no longer a gay festival as it was in the 1980s. Ironically, the "alternative arts" community is starting to leave Silver Lake because it has become expensive, and are moving to Echo Park, Eagle Rock and Highland Park all of which are unquestionably "predominately straight Latino areas"

Yeah, I don't think there's much of an actual gay "community" per se in WeHo. It's the "Land of the Shirtless Male"; most of the gay men who live there are more interested in anonymous sex than in any sort of community-building. I'm sure the percentage of gay residents is higher in WeHo than in Silver Lake, but as far as social capital goes, Silver Lake is LA's gay center. It will be interesting to see if this is still the case 20 years from now, or whether it will have moved southeast (toward Echo Park and Chinatown) or northeast (into Atwater Village, Highland Park, Eagle Rock, Glassell Park, etc.) --Slightlyslack 21:20, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

Typically the two main "gay" areas of Los Angeles has always been West Hollywood and Silverlake. You can try to pretty-up the wording as much as you can but it basically falls into this category: West Hollywood is where all the "pretty" and well-to-do gay people live and Silverlake is where the older more alternative/leather-cultured gay people live. It's that simple and has been that way since as far back as I can remember. So you can think of Silverlake as the "Florida" for older gay Los Angelinos which also has a lot of 20/30-somethings with piercings. Artemisboy 21:06, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Edendale

I think the reference to Edendale is not quite accurate. I believe the Edendale name predates Ivanhoe, and doesn't exactly refer to Silver Lake, but to a historic district on its eastern edge, mostly in Echo Park. There's a new article on Edendale if you'd like to link. --TomChatt 07:56, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] county?

which county is it in?

Silver Lake is a part of the city of Los Angeles which is in Los Angeles County --Freepablo 05:43, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Wait. Silver Lake is largely in 90039 and some parts in 90026? My impression was that it was evenly divided between the two. The Sunset Junction is in 90029. A small part of Silver Lake is in 90029.

I doubled checked on the zip code maps, and you're right. a few blocks are in 90029. and between 1/3 and 1/2 is in 90026. it's been corrected. --Daniel Romero Cruz 08:43, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Trotsky

Did Trotsky really live in Silver Lake ?? GG The Fly (talk) 01:39, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ivanhoe and Hugo Reid

I would be very interested in knowing the source of the statement that Hugo Reid first applied the name "Ivanhoe" to the Silver Lake area. This doesn't seem to be substantiated except by other websites, which also give no attribution. (If it is in Dakin's book, I missed it entirely.) It seems more likely that the name was first applied by the subdividers of the Ivanhoe tract (1887) and that the name of the reservoir followed. Nonetheless, the Reid story is intriguing and, if true, it would great to have it properly referenced. WMThomas (talk) 20:04, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

I have added a citation request in the article concerning the source of the statement discussed above. As the websites mentioned give no attribution, they cannot be used as citations. On the other hand, Mike Eberts states in his well referenced Griffith Park: a Centennial History (1996) Los Angeles: Historical Society of Southern California ISBN 0-914421-19-0 that Griffith J. Griffith gave the name when he subdivided the land in 1887. If Griffith was using a name previously bestowed by Reid, that would be very interesting to document. WMThomas (talk) 03:50, 1 May 2008 (UTC)