Comments on: How It Begins: Renaming a Neighborhood

By: Elijah

Elijah — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:31:44 +0000

haha, that ish wouldn’t last a day on this side. south gate, watts, will always remain: south gate, watts. City’s on this side can never be broke down and turned in to Manhattan, oh I mean Greenwich village, or eastlos whatever. 100% no Gentrification, can you imagine the Jordan downs rebuilt haha a joke, i tell ya.

By: mandor

mandor — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 18:51:18 +0000

I went to Little Ethiopia (how long has that name been around?) the other night for dinner and noticed “SoFax” banners all along that stretch of Fairfax.

By: Vince

Vince — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:21:20 +0000

Truth- Not “hipsters”, they weren’t hip, in 1904, my bad, just idiots, who like to make up stupid names, even in those days they “THOUGHT” they were so cool!! My bad, I thought that stupidity didn’t go so far back, but obviously it does!!!!

By: Jay Pee

Jay Pee — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 09:59:18 +0000

@ Chuy90023

LOL! I live in BoHe too!

By: alienation

alienation — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 07:33:34 +0000

There’s actually a Wilmar renaissance going on, due to the internet.

A lot of websites seem to get their data from some central location. It’s probably the US Census or maybe political or County databases, because they have all the census tracts mapped out, with latitude and longitude, and each tract is cross referenced with place names. (Even as early as the late 1980s, computer experimenters were using census data to build online maps.) This data is free or cheap.

It seems like the existence of Wilmar wasn’t expunged from the data sets. So, with this expired data, Wilmar has revived, and has been treated like a real city by computer programs that create mega-web-sites.

Welcome to Wilmar, the undead cyborgian city.

SANGRA is dying?

By: chimatli

chimatli — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 06:49:02 +0000

Damn, that means I live in LiHe? There was some nearby loft development that was using “The Heights” on their oh-so-hip marketing literature. Ugh.

By: Chuy90023

Chuy90023 — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 06:37:04 +0000

I live in BoHe!

By: truth

truth — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 06:01:09 +0000

Vince, Santa Monica High’s newspaper has been called “The Samohi” for about 95 years. (Hipsters in 1904? I don’t think so!!).

And wtf: “SoHo” takes up half the dang map! No, it’s not a village. So he wants to build a fucking empire? Columbus syndrome is right

By: cristin

cristin — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 03:04:41 +0000

man, this makes me laugh as well as want to cry.

By: BonnieBeach

BonnieBeach — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 20:10:37 +0000

I remember hearing the terms “SoDo” and “DoSo” used for the southern part of downtown along Central a few years ago, but I think people pretty much gave up on that.

Also, SoHo didn’t even start in NY! They stole that shit from London.