Crossroads: Boyle Heights
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- Опубликовано: 3 дек 2020
- Through the stories of past and present neighborhood residents, "Crossroads: Boyle Heights" (2002) explores how the experiences and memories of many generations of Angelenos intersect in this powerful place.
A neighborhood is made up of people and places. It is defined through the experiences of those who consider it home. And it holds their hopes for the future and their memories of the past. The neighborhood of Boyle Heights is located just east of downtown between the Los Angeles River and the city boundary. It has been home to people who have come to Los Angeles from different cities, states, and countries and who brought with them their diverse beliefs, traditions and languages.
Produced by John Esaki, Claudia Sobral, and Sojin Kim for the "Boyle Heights: The Power of Place" exhibition at the Japanese American National Museum (September 8, 2002 - February 23, 2003). For more information: janm.org/exhibits/bh/.
[English CC available]
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WATCH THE Q&A -- On December 18 , 2020, the exhibition/documentary producers and curators Sojin Kim and Claudia Sobral; along with Chicano Artivista Quetzal Flores; musician, writer, and producer Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara; and JANM VP of Exhibitions and Art Director Clement Hanami reflected on the project in a retrospective Q&A moderated by JANM Public Programs Coordinator, Joy Yamaguchi. The program was presented as part of the JANM Digital Film Festival (JDFF).
WATCH THE Q&A HERE: • JANM Digital Film Fest...
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🏡🤗🕊 I was a Russian kid, the Russian church on Lorena st Hill. We used to throw lemons or (the bad boys threw rocks) at the Mexican kids; my Dad went to Garfield high. The A/Z nut wagon had the best seeds. We respected everyone and showed love back then 🍋🙏🎶 He mentions my cousin names on the sports team. I speak Russian/ Mexican/ English and make tamales 🍒 Great information !
So nice to see the old generation living in my hood ..nice to see the history of boyle heights
Me and my kids grew up in boyle heights thats my neighborhood.i was born in mexico but my heart belongs to Boyles heights its always been a close community with a great heart its like a big family.and i also know that oscar de la holla lived in boyle heights did his boxing training and became famous also felipe esparza grew up in boyle heights
I lived at 113 1/2 S Soto, then we moved next door to 119 S Soto. My Grandparents had an open front Grocery Store on 1st Street between Soto and Breed. I left Boyle Heights and moved to North Hollywood when I was 20.
I have always been fascinated with Boyle Heights. My great grandfather Andrew Hayman came their from Arkansas in 1912 and lived on New Jersey street near evergreen cemetery, before moving to Pomeroy Ave in Terrace Heights. People often forget that there was an active African American community that thrived there before WWII. Our cousins the Spencers arrive in Boyle Heights from Arkansas arrive even earlier than the Hayman. Their children Kenneth and Gwen Spencer graduated from Garfield High School. Their father William Spencer became one of the first blacks on the LA PD in 1910. His son Kenneth studied Opera in Boyle Heights and would go on to become an acclaimed singer and actor. My great grandfather died in 1946 and by then our families had moved to South L.A and Watts.
Wow! I love this! Thanks for sharing! I want to look up Kenneth.
Was his middle name "Floyd"? Did he go into World War II. There are dozens of Kenneth Spencers on Ancestry.com in California.
According to Wikipedia, which has an excellent profile of him, his full name, which I never knew was Kenneth Lee Spencer (1913-1964). I didn’t know him but knew his sister Gwen who was born a year after him and lived to be over 104 years old, before her death a few years ago. Both of them graduated from Garfield HS,
@@juanitadaleslusher5218 Not sure if her served in WWII but he was not only featured in 1942 movie Cabin in the Sky but the WWII drama Bataan!
@@lesthebest3171 No way! Dang it! I have Cabin in the Sky, but on VHS. I need to get it on DVD. Let me see if that is on RUclips.
Im East Los Angeles( Maravilla District) raised. Spent littlectime in Boyle Hts. From the looks of things Boyle Hts had a much stronger ethnicity representation than Maravilla. I live in Boyle Hts today, wished id had a stronger connection here then because its hard to see the old Neighborhood feel today..Great documentary.
My grandma was born and raised in Boyle Heights. She remembered the time of the depression. She told me she was with her mom (my great grandma) in line to get food for assistance...
As diverse as Boyle Heights once was; now a small group of residents are determined to keep other cultures out. Their also doing their best to erase it's past
Thank you!
Very cool. I seen some familiar faces. 😀
Whatever diversity Boyle Heights had back in the day, it's long gone and now it's almost completely Mexican. Moreover, many of these old-timers are no longer around.
I live in Boyle Hts today and sence that community gone..
Gangsters live in Boyle heights
It's funny because these so-called "gangsters" you speak of clearly played a role in the gentrification of Boyle Heights you see happening today. They turned a run-of-the-mill L.A. neighborhood into a Third World $h!th0le for so long, the property investors and house flippers finally had to intervene, and that's how you get gentrification in the first place.
❤. 2023. Evergreen by Noami Hirahara. 1947 Japanese Americans are sent to camps and sent to chicago and return to Little Tokyo to find Brownsville a black community. The Jewish community moved out of Boyle heights , the mob, the KKK , the 100/442. Japanese American soldiers “Go For Broke”. Hammer Japanese American Zoot suture from Chicago. Great read of 1940
all of these areas are now homeless camps... mission acomplished
tell me how you don't live or been to boyle heights