Talk:Los Feliz, Los Angeles

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In the silent era, there were far more film personalities living in Los Feliz than Beverly Hills. Beverly Hills in the 1920s was still very rural, and film stars moved there at that time to "get away from it all".

famous people to add
John Rechy Will & Ariel Durant —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.175.104.195 (talk) 06:50, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

"The Hills"?
I've lived in Los Feliz for 18 years and I have never once heard any of the residents call the Hollywood Hills "The Hills". In addition, simply calling the Hollywood Hills "The hills" is insufficient information. I've also never heard anyone call Los Feliz Boulevard "The Boulevard". I am going to edit these two "as the natives call it", because they appear to be the opinion of the native who wrote this article.CaTigeReptile 12:47, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

As the native who wrote part of this article, I would just like to add that people in Los Feliz do refer to Los Feliz Boulevard as "the boulevard". I assume you are the one who decided to say that some may refer to the boulevard as "the fez". Pathetic hipster neologism don't make up for the fact that my family has lived in the area since the twenties, I have lived my entire life in Los Feliz. It is referred to as the boulevard by everyone from realtors to natives as a way to demarcate the predominatly residential area to the north and the mixed use area to the south.

86.206.83.81 (talk) 10:40, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Hmmmmmmm....
Several of the NOTABLES listed actually lived/live in Echo Park, the Hollywood Hills, Silverlake, or East Hollywood, and some of them stopped there just long enough to have a cup of coffee or sex, but I'll leave it as is, as I'm sure they will be correctly included in other Wik entries. Another glaring mistake is the bar section. THAT, is a mess. Many of the bars mentioned are located in either East Hollywood or Silverlake, not Los Feliz. Also the history of these bars is rather skewed. By the way.....there are NO MORE DIVES in any of these areas, stop calling them dives. She-it, you'd have to drive at least 20 miles to find a REAL DIVE these days. THIS, I did correct. Under NOTABLES, Richard Thomas, John-Boy from the Waltons, and Lance Ito ( and his parents) need to be included. Thomas has lived in Los Feliz since the middle 70s, and the Ito's have lived in Los Feliz since the 60s. Lance graduated from Marshall, class of 67, I believe. His mom was my Kindergarden teacher at Elysian heights in Echo Park. Garagehero 15:44, 2007 (

GEOGRAPHY COGRAPHY
The original writer cant differentiate the Los Feliz Hills from the Hollywood, Franklin, or Silverlake Hills. To be fair, sometimes the line is blurred ( by a few blocks), but mostly there is a sharp demarcation in the way of broad avenues. Read a map before you post!!!!

Southern Border
"Los Feliz is bordered by Franklin Avenue on the south..."

C'mon. That's a mite snobbish. That effectively dumps nearly every retail outlet in Los Feliz, including the Post Office and the Library.

Hollywood Boulevard maybe, Sunset fer sure. (That's like a block or two, depending on the North/South street. Hollywood peters into Prospect - the old timey name for Hollywood Boulevard.)

The bars listed are Los Feliz sure as shootin. (Hyperion and Tiki Ti? Iffy.  Probably originally listed because of the cachet Los Feliz had before Silver Lake started to become fashionable [before Double Two certain European types immigrated there - was known as the Swish Alps].  However, they are within staggering distance of Los Feliz proper.)  And yes, the Drawing Room is a dive bar. Seen the carpet lately? Its so rotted and worn, I haven't seen it in years. Just because we have jingle in our pockets doesn't mean we have to be fancy.

I haven't edited. This entry has been seriously messed with. I oughta take y'all to a Los Feliz Lion's Club meeting. Wiki: It just gets laughable sometimes. Take it from a local yokel, Los Feliz doesn't end at Franklin Ave.

Uhh...nonetheless, it may be wise to reconsider that slang. "South of the Boulevard" in Encino and environs refers to Ventura Blvd., of course. "The Boulevard" in Los Angeles parlance often means Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood, and usually denotes its vices. Please note the Jackson Browne song "On the Boulevard" about pathos for some of its sad participants.

One notes that every burg and bump in the US has people in it who are proud that they have one line of descent that has stuck to the place for usually about 100 years max. (Sometimes it means they couldn't afford to move to someplace better.) In Europe, such notions are absent, although the number of years can exceed 450. Oh, well, peace to all. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kdmoss (talk • contribs) 22:27, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Just so we're clear the Los Feliz boarder is Hyperion, Fountain and Hollywood Blvd. as the merge into each other. That puts Gelsons in Los Feliz side, not Silverlake. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.94.201.156 (talk) 16:47, 14 December 2014 (UTC)



Another Los Feliz resident comments: I agree that Franklin Ave is too far north to serve as the border. The Los Feliz 3 Cinemas certainly ought to be considered well within the borders of Los Feliz, as should the Los Feliz branch library, the Los Feliz News Stand, Los Feliz Lock & Key ... etc. ... all of which lie outside the border as defined in this entry. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.175.104.195 (talk) 06:47, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Famous Residents
Per WikiProject_Cities/Guideline, I am splitting out the large list of famous residents into their own article. A place like Los Feliz with a large number of notable residents needs the factual content of the article to not be overtaken by a giant list of names. The sub article is linked from the section header still. Mfield (talk) 06:58, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Harold Perelson murder house
http://www.mashget.com/most-emailed/2009/02/06/on-a-los-feliz-hill-murder-then-mystery/ http://ironysupplement.wordpress.com/2009/02/06/los-feliz-haunt/ The LA Times recently ran stories in many newspapers about the Perelson murder house in Los Feliz, in the 2400 block of Glendower Place. Its been vacant since 1959. Anybody else heard about this? For what its worth, the Ennis House is right behind it. --24.21.148.155 (talk) 21:32, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

“Los Feliz” as a “standard Spanish construction”
I do not agree with the statement that "los Felix" is nonstandard when used in connection with a family name. The reference at spanishdict.com tells how to pluralize "feliz" the word, not "Felix" the surname. In my experience from living in a couple of Spanish-speaking countries, it is indeed standard to refer to "los Felix" or "los Gómez" or "los Sepúlveda." Examples are easy to find and include "De repente, los Gómez", a Spanish television series, and many place names (in Sinaloa, there is a "Palmar de los Sepúlveda", a "Palmar de los Fonseca", and a "Palmar de los Leal"). Jim (talk) 18:17, 6 December 2019 (UTC)

Article - how to pronounce?
FYI - this might be a useful reference...

"Why do we pronounce our place names this way?" - Feb 23, 2021 LA Times article


 * https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-02-23/los-angeles-why-do-we-pronounce-place-names-this-way

• Sbmeirow  •  Talk  • 23:57, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

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