“Ask Silver Lake” is dedicated to exploring the history and insights of our community. If you have questions or ideas you’d like us to consider, please drop a comment or send them to  outreach@silverlakenc.org . The Silver Lake Branch Library, temporarily closed All the best Silver Lakers know and love the Silver Lake Branch Library . As library lovers, though, we sadly have to find other outlets for our affections for the time being because the library was closed on 28 July

"Ask Silver Lake” is dedicated to exploring the history and insights of our community. If you have questions or ideas you’d like us to consider, please drop a comment or send them to outreach@silverlakenc.org . When you think of Los Angeles communities known for their famous music venues, you likely first think of Downtown and Hollywood . If you're willing to include other Los Angeles County cities, West Hollywood 's Sunset Strip surely comes to mind. If you're really in

Today Silver Lake is, by most accounts, moderately well served by mass transit. The website, Walk Score, gives Silver Lake a transit...

On 5 February 2014, the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council considered a motion introduced by councilmembers Anne-Marie Johnson and Dorit Dowler-Guerrero, and stakeholder Al Guerrero, Jr. The motion called for the addition to the Standing Rules a clarification stating that “Silver Lake is not located in the ‘East Side’ of Los Angeles nor is it accurate to refer to Silver Lake as a [sic] ‘East Side’ neighborhood or community.”

Silver Lake‘s connection to music runs almost as deep as its well-known ties to film. There are live music venues, like El Cid, which hosted its first performances in 1962. There are studios, like Pulse, which opened as Soundcastle in the ‘70s.

Silver Lake is widely known, among other things, for its residential architecture. There are many fine examples of California Craftsman, Streamline Moderne, and all sorts of revival styles. Perhaps no style is more celebrated and more closely associated with the neighborhood, though, than Modernism.

The Silver Lake skyline is punctuated by several striking hill-top homes, such as Crestmount, Silvertop, Villa Capistrano, Villa del Lago, and Villa Monaco. Perhaps the most striking is the gargantuan Garbutt House, a hulking citadel built in the 1920s by and for wealthy capitalist, Frank Garbutt.