Cool question you may get as well. There’s a theater class with an assignment (printed page even!) to find out about warehouses in East Los Angeles. They need to find images and a sense of what the neighborhood is like, for example the types of businesses. All to support creating scenery or imagining a play in that setting.
Here’s what I did.
On the academic side
subject search in catalog on East Los Angeles. East Los Angeles: History of a Barrio could be full of word images
tried searches for Los Angeles guidebooks, but our results not so helpful
On the really helpful side
Google Images “East Los Angeles”
Wikipedia entry on “East Los Angeles” links to many images, neighborhood information
with a better sense of the area, Google Maps and using the Traffic shots
The student I helped was satisfied with that, but seems like there could be more good stuff on the web. Ideas to get at it?
-Marilee
