Boyle Heights

Boyle Heights is a neighborhood east of Downtown Los Angeles on the East Side of Los Angeles. For much of the twentieth century, Boyle Heights was a gateway for new immigrants. This resulted in diverse demographics, including Jewish American, Japanese American and Mexican American populations, as well as Russian American and Yugoslav populations. Today, the neighborhood is populated mostly by working class Latinos. The Boyle Heights area was known in the Spanish and Mexican era as "Paredon Blanco" or "White Bluffs." While within the four-league limits established for Los Angeles under Spanish dominion in 1781, this area east of the river was sparsely populated. Among those who resided in the Paredon Blanco area were the Lopez and Rubio...