VARRIO TEMPLE STREET VARRIO INITIALS "TST"ORIGINAL LA SIDE "WEST SIDE"By FLAKO TST PDLSTHE VARRIO TEMPLE STREET WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1923, THE FAMILY LAST NAME WHICH STARTED TST WAS "TEMPLEROSA ", AND THEY HAD CAME FROM MEXICO, TO TEXAS, THEN TO CALIFORNIA, ESTABLISHING THE VARRIO IN BOTH PLACES IN THE 1920s. TIME LATER IT BECAME "TEMPLE STREET" BECAUSE OF THE LA STREET THEY LIVED ON, AND EVENTU...ALLY, AS MOST VARRIOS IN LA BEGAN TO CLAIM "SIDES", TST BEGAN TO ADD/CLAIM "WEST SIDE" INDICATING WHAT SIDE OF THE CITY THEY WERE ON THE WEST SIDE OF LOS ANGELES. THE ORIGINAL VARRIO IS LOCATED IN THE CENTRAL LA AREA WEST OF DOWNTOWN, SOURROUNDING THE NEIGHBORHOOD AROUND TEMPLE AND CORONADO STREETS AREA, IN THE COMMUNITY WHICH TODAY IS KNOWN AS THE RAMPART DISTRICT. BOTH THE TEMPLE STREET AND THE CLANTON 14 STREET VARRIOS ARE SAID TO BE THE TWO OLDEST WEST CENTRAL LA VARRIOS IN EXISTANCE TO THIS DAY. TEMPLE STREET WAS STARTED BY MEXICAN AMERICANS, BUT HAS ALWAYS HAD SOME CENTROS, FILIPINOS, WHITES, AND A VERY FEW BLACKS. HISPANIC MEMBERS IS AND HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE MAJORITY OF THE GANG.NEVERTHELESS ETHNIC GROUPS HAVE REMAINED TIGHT AND ALL IS SAID TO BE GOOD IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD BETWEEN THESE RAZA GROUPS. THE VARRIO OVER THE YEARS HAVE ADDED NUMEROUS CLIQUES AND HAS STARTED OUT RECRUITMENT IN VARIOUS OTHER SECTIONS OF SOxCAL AS WELL AS IN OTHER FAR-FLUNG PLACES. IN ADDITION, OTHER WELL KNOWN CLIQUES LIKE SATANAS AND REBELS 13 WHICH WERE ORIGINALLY A PART OF THE TEMPLE STREET VARRIO ...