Talk:South Bay, Los Angeles

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First, thank you, PFHLai, for merging the two articles together. I would have done it myself, but I was busy at the time. Second, I would not consider Long Beach to be part of the South Bay area. It is too far east, and too insular. It is practically in Orange County in my humble opinion, and I would like to remove all references to it in this article unless someone can give me a good argument to why I should not. Yours with wikilove, Two Halves

You are welcome. It was a pleasure wikimerging.

I have no objection to your removal of Long Beach (never been there...), but is this an "Orange curtain" ? :-)

Have fun !

-- PFHLai 13:34, 2004 Jul 27 (UTC)

[edit] Mistake

It's eastern boundary as listed is the los angeles river. It is also listed that (the cities of Compton, Inglewood, Hawthorne, Downey, and Lynwood) lie within the boundaries, but are genarlly considered to be extensions of South Los Angeles. That is true for Compton, Inglewood, and Lynwood, but Downey is east of the Los Angeles River and Hawthorne is generally considered to be the south bay.

Maybe the better definition would be everything outside (ie, to the west or south) of the 405?

[edit] Polynesians?

I believe there is or was a Polynesian restaurant on Vermont in Gardena, and I'm sure there are many Polynedians in the area, but I'd imagine that there are relatively many more Asians from other countries. I also doubt that Gardena and Hawthorne have parts that "are some of the most impoverished areas in the state of California". Rather, that distinction would go to cities and areas further east such as Watts/Willowbrook, Florence, Cudahy, Bell, Bell Gardens, Southgate, etc. I also wonder whether San Pedro and Wilmington are really part of the South Bay or are actually part of "Harbor". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.232.57.195 (talk • contribs)

There is a fairly diffuse Pacific Islander population (Hawaiian, Samoan, Fijiian, etc.) in the Los Angeles area that is more-or-less centered in the South Bay. I'd have to dig through the census statistics, but my guess is that the largest concentration is in the Carson area. There is a big festival every year at the big regional park next to Los Angeles Harbor College (where the alligator was found?).

As for what is and what is not "South Bay", every single reference you can find will have a different take on it. The article should probably do a better job of explaining that and differentiating between areas that are usually South Bay, and the areas that are sometimes South Bay. ^BlankVerse 12:02, 6 January 2006 (UTC)