The subject of this month’s “Ask Silver Lake” is Silver Lake’s historic gay bars and other third places. It was written for Pride Month and seemed like a natural subject given Silver Lake’s decades-long identity as Los Angeles’s gayborhood. As was so often the case, however, I turned to have bitten off more than I could chew and here it is, let’s just say, fashionably late. Third places, for the unfamiliar, are social spaces that are neither home (the first place) nor work (the second place)....

If tasked with listing Los Angeles’s “Asian neighborhoods,” you’d probably first think of well-known immigrant enclaves like Chinatown, Koreatown, and Little Tokyo – or maybe less well-known ones like Cambodia Town, Little Bangladesh, or Little India. Perhaps you will think of one of the many suburbs of Los Angeles with an Asian American majority – places like Walnut, South San Gabriel, or Cerritos. You’d be forgiven, though, if Silver Lake never came to mind. Silver Lake, after all, has long...

"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 . Glendale-Hyperion Viaduct, Los Angeles, California Postcard 1931 The iconic Victory Memorial Bridge (Glendale-Hyperion Viaduct), connecting Los Feliz and Silver Lake on the Los Angeles River ’s west bank with Atwater on the east, has for years been beset by long-standing...