East L.A.

East L.A. is a district in Los Angeles

After the Flood

Originally East L.A. was populated by the well-behaved poor and working class who migrated to East L.A. from El Infierno. The area was destroyed by the "Twins" earthquakes and flood that devastated most of the Los Angeles basin.

Today it's mostly under-populated, though that is starting to change with reclamation projects run by ecological and construction corporations. Scattered throughout the area are small islands with shattered buildings which harbor scavengers and water-gangs, and the occasional dangerous paracritter or shedim.

Before the Flood

Before the earthquake and flood that altered the Los Angeles sprawl, East Los Angeles was a big chunk of territory which was mostly owned by Lockheed and it's affiliated companies. Basically a factory and warehouse district, and looked the part. Montebello, East L.A., Pico Rivera, La Habra, Whittier, and La Miranda were LA's industrial core. Full of unsightly plascrete rectangles, smokestacks, and ribbons of thick metallic pipes channeling poison and sludge into the water, air, and soil.

It used to be mostly working-class Latinos who lived here, but many left for Aztlan due to Aztlaner propaganda and the distrust of their non-Latino neighbors. The Lockheed Corporation bought up of the real estate, using financial incentives and sometimes arson to convince the locals to move. By 2041 it was a mix of power plants, factory floors, and prefabricated tenements for wage slaves.

Though still working-class, most of the residents were poorer than the previous generation. One still saw the national flags of Mexico or Puerto Rico, and Spanish was still spoken. It was a mostly gray, apathetic, and run down area. Despite that was still one of the nicer areas remaining in Los Angeles. Where people still made enough to regularly put food on the table, while they were fearful of losing their job. Patrolling East L.A. pretty effectively was the City Authority and the corporations.

In Los Angeles, it's the area where you found the people whom generally speaking were the most determined to climb the ladder in the sprawl. The residents believed in dealing with others honorably and they valued respectability. The locals didn't like chip dealing nor gang activity, and many a criminal was injured or killed by the neighborhood crime patrol (vigilantes). Though there were gangs and turf wars in East L.A., it was at a level that could be tolerated, higher than in Downtown but much less than in the real slums.

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• o07914318Corporate Enclaves, 25
• o20709502California Free State, 98-99