If you live in LH you might have seen these stickers around. Courtesy of the Lincoln Heights Neighborhood Council (thanks Erika!) I have a few of these to give away. So if you want one for your hip-but-stupid fixed gear bike, your beat up old carcancha that’s held together by duct tape and crossed fingers, or for that laptop that you are still paying off on your maxed out credit card, nows your chance to get one for free! Just leave a reason why you like LH in the comment area below, I’ll email you for a mailing address, and a brand new vinyl sticker will find its way to your hands via the ever capable US Postal Service.
First come, first served. No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service!
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I like LH because my family has always gotten their carne from carnecerias in LH and it’s always been super yummy. 🙂
I love LHTS for everything that it is… the good, the bad, and the ugly! I love it for what it was, what it is, and what it could become. I love it for what it has giving me and my family all our lives living here.
I love Lincoln Heights ‘cuz my friends live there.
I love LH because people still walk around and I still recognize folks from when I was 5 years old. It also wouldn’t be LH without that crazy guy with the long hair, you might have seen him. He just wanders around but it seems that these days he has some gray hairs & a bike.
I also love the history, that it doesn’t look like any other cookie-cutter, strip-mall surburbia.
LH IS LA. And because I hate it when people say they’re from LA and they’re really from La Puente, Pico Rivera, Whittier, or Garden Grove…but LH IS LA.
…cause griffin takes me everywhere i need to go.
Looks like they’re all gone now. I’m trying to get some more so keep posting your reasons, just in case!
I’ll hook you up with plenty more. Great blog! We’ll also be at Mirabal Mortuary (they were kind enough to loan us their parking area) for a FREE Cinco de Mayo Celebration where we will have the stickers and other I
Yay, I’m getting more! The giveaway is back on!
There’s not a lot of places where a black cop can move his family back to his old hood to start a new life and to help his old neighborhood. I think that makes Lincoln Heights very special.
I like lincoln heights because el chavo and the gypsy live there.
matt lucas
ps I’m seeing morrissey on tuesday up here.
I love Lincoln Heights because the buzz lasts a lot longer there!
Why do i love Lincoln Heights? let’s see… i was born just a couple of miles away at some Clinic on East LA, and then i was brought home. Home was on Supreme Court. Then we moved from that home to a new home on Ave. 28. There i witnessed a crap load of violence, people died in front of our home, were shot and stabbed, and a stray bullet even lodged itself below our mounted mail box. and oddly, i feel safe there. i moved away at 19 and at 29 i moved back to the house on Ave. 28. I feel safe in my home and on my streets. i feel like i know everyone, or at least i can name drop (my mom or dad) and they’ll instantly know me. i will always “la hija de dona mari or don leon” and that brings me joy.
lincoln heights is a diamond in the rough that i hope doesn’t get “discovered” and turned into an Eagle Rock where all the yuppies start moving in thinking they found a neighborhood they can improve. lincoln heights needs very little improvement. the only thing i would change are those little friggers who keep tagging up everything clean just because they have nothing better to do. other than that let the people who live there now make their own improvements at their own pace. my advice to any homeowners in the LHS, DO NOT SELL!
Go Marlene, great comment! I agree Lincoln Heights needs to do it’s own thing not try and replicate other neighborhoods.
Hope to meet you one day!
Hahahahahaha………..
I LOVE CLOVER HEIGHTS!!!
My great grandparents are buried in the east Los Angeles cemetary, and this is where my family is from. My husband, daughter, and I recently moved back to LH, and we are eager to watch our daughter grow up in such a diverse neighborhood. We enjoy the best lengua and buche street tacos in the world, and I love getting diapers, Mexican candy, and clothes at the party store on Pasadena. Our favorite thing to do on the weekends is walk amongst the most amazing backyard (and frontyard) gardens, and we love chatting it up with the neighbors, discussing gardening techniques. My husband is now keeping a winter garden, and he grows lettuce, cabbage, radishes, cauliflower, artichokes, parsley, and Chinese celery. My husband is Romanian, and I am Jewish, and we love talking with our Latino neighbors to the left and Chinese neighbors to the right. We talk about cultural similarities, like pickling fruits and vegetables, and we enjoy learning about each other…Lincoln Heights is a beautiful, magical town. We would treasure and proudly “wear” a bumper sticker!
Because Lincoln Park was where I found my very first horse~~
Yep~~~ I rode the carousel as a little girl time & again & that was heaven for me. And of course as ever I pined to be able to use the Lincoln Hieghts Library, as a little girl ~ we would go to Thrifty’s via the back entrance & I always wondered what that building was.. ..when I was a teen ~ that is the place where I checked all of my books out …& then we have THE PINK PAN DULCE COOKIES!~
they are/were heaven heaven heaven ………………..!!! & one cannot find that heaven anywhere in northeast florida ~~ 90031 YOU ROCK~~~!!
i LOVE The Heights Because of the people that came in and out of here. Some good some bad but at the end of the night were still a chill community To Live and Die in LA…
Lincoln Heights For Life… Cant forget about the wonderful neighbors..
Shoot me some Neighbor.. Its Keith and Gary… Memeber… you Member…
Lincoln Heights is my hometown. I’m proud to say I grew up there, went to Griffen Ave and attended church at Sacred Heart.
I LOVE LINCOLN HEIGHTS! My parents each arrived from different Latin American countries to Lincoln Heights. They met there. They went to Lincoln High School during the time of the Sal Castro walk-outs. Then they got married and had me there! I was born at City View Hospital on top of the little hill which no longer exists 🙁 I went to school there as well. I have fond memories of shopping with my grandmother at Big Saver, buying all our cakes at Palace Bakery, eating at Dino’s, going to mass at Sacred Heart, etc. Eventually, my nuclear family moved from the area because my dad’s job sent him to Sacramento, but my extended family remained. We would drive 8 hours every chance we got just to visit our family in our Lincoln Heights. We couldn’t wait to see the Broadway exit on the freeway. It made the looong drive worthwhile! Again eventually, we moved back to LA but not to Lincoln Heights. I still go frequently because my family is still there though. I still feel at home there. I feel safe there. I want to eventually buy my grandfather’s house and move back! THAT’s how much I LOVE LINCOLN HEIGHTS!!
I love Lincoln Heights cause it’s where I grew up. Loved Albion St. Elementary, loved Nightengale Jr High School and of course was a mighty Tiger. Played at Downey Park for the best coach ever, Dan Alessi. Was an Altar Boy at Our Lady Help of Christians. Shopped at Milagros Market. Got the best sandwhiches at Lanza Brothers Market. Ate so many pastrami’s at Dinos, that I can never eat one any where else. To me a clover is not an Irish symbol. I smelled Pabst beer oats cooking all my younger life. Heard, War at Lincoln Park every Cinco de Mayo as a teenager. Snuck into Dodger Stadium more times then I can count. But more importantly live with some of the beast people ever. I’ve lived all over the world, but no group of people have ever lived up to the peeps of the mighty 90031.
I LOVE Lincoln Heights because that is where I grew up at, went to Elementary, Middle school and High School and got married at Scared Heart there, My parents still live there. It was a great place to grow up in.
My brothers, sister & I were born @ Gen. Hospital and raised on Johnston street in a 3 bdroom house in which my mom worked 2 jobs to buy and pay for in full in the 1940s. Her blood, :)sweat & tears went into buying the house as a single parent. The house is still there and is in exact same appearance as when she bought it. 😀
I love Lincoln Heights because my mother grew up on Ave. 21, and was a member of the first graduating class of the “new” Lincoln High School in 1939. I love Lincoln Heights because as a teen I would get my hair cut at Lillians, then walk across the street and pay my mothers bills. I love Lincoln Heights because my grandparents lived on Workman for many years, and my aunt and uncle lived around the corner on Ave 28 for close to 70 years. But, I especially love Lincoln Heights because its rich with history, has many beautiful Victorian homes, and is so close to downtown Los Angeles. For those of you that are interested, I have posted many historic pics of Lincoln Heights on Facebook, titled Historic Lincoln Heights – Los Angeles. Go check them out!
I love Lincoln Heights because it is what I know. My parents are from LH, married in LH, and now I came back to LH to feel like home.
I might be 6yrs late but, I love my beautiful LH because its filled with great people, awesome local stores. Some might see it as “ghetto” but I wouldn’t have it any other way. The best neighborhood to have been born and raised in.Aunque yo talvez me valla, aqui siempre sera me hogar.