Drive by Memories | A Short Documentary on the life of Daniel Villarreal

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  • Опубликовано: 26 окт 2024

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  • @diamondlee2253
    @diamondlee2253 10 месяцев назад +6

    Grand parents been in Boyle Heights since 1940’s and till this day my family still owns property on Mathews and Michigan… im born and raised! Love my neighborhood! I miss it so much!! Lots of love ❤️

  • @staceejaxx1969
    @staceejaxx1969 7 месяцев назад +5

    My family has been in Los Angeles since the days it was still Mexico.

    • @jessecastro1448
      @jessecastro1448 13 дней назад

      Mine as well. My great grandfather owned what is known as the Hoyo. He would walk goats to Montebello on a dirt road, which is now Whittier blvd.

  • @JosetteMurillo
    @JosetteMurillo 11 месяцев назад +30

    People from Boyle Heights are very proud of where they were born and raised. My family and ancestors also came from El Paso to Boyle Heights back in the 1930"s. One of my great aunts created a web page called The Jurados of Boyle Heights. Many homes were taken down after the freeways were being built, and many beautiful Victorian style homes gone forever.

    • @jordanmartinez4363
      @jordanmartinez4363 11 месяцев назад +1

      No😅 J😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅io😅😅oiiii😅ijo

    • @jordanmartinez4363
      @jordanmartinez4363 11 месяцев назад +1

      L look pio. Poppppppp. Po k. Nnnnnnpn😅😅bbbnn😅😅nnnn

    • @xavibustilloz779
      @xavibustilloz779 11 месяцев назад +3

      El Paso Tx my hometown.

    • @WorldGoneMad1312
      @WorldGoneMad1312 10 месяцев назад +2

      Yes my family grew up in Boyle Heights they moved there after the dust bowl in Oklahoma!

    • @nicholasramos5919
      @nicholasramos5919 8 месяцев назад +2

      It's the culture alot of the generation don't know about where it all started or the culture there stuck on stupid like the whole Norteno and sureno bullshit

  • @moralesrudy4
    @moralesrudy4 11 месяцев назад +18

    Remember watching stand and deliver in my junior high 8th grade Slauson school city of Azusa in 1989 brings back memories

  • @frankmartinez4856
    @frankmartinez4856 7 месяцев назад +2

    Thanks for your story 💕grew up in Banning(not the High School) between Riverside/Palm Springs 😳😬

  • @spookymorales
    @spookymorales 8 месяцев назад +4

    Abuelitos de Soto Street since 40s🙏🏽👻💙

  • @perrowleon653
    @perrowleon653 11 месяцев назад +9

    Chingon. I really enjoy your story. Much respect from Sonora, Mex. Viva La Raza ✊🏽

  • @calinsaner
    @calinsaner 11 месяцев назад +8

    Tripped out ! I have the opposite story of this man. I was born in east LA, stayed there until i was 13. Then moved to el paso in 2005. No lie the territories you live in mold you to be the person you grow up to be. Love east LA til the death of me but its definitely not afforded especially if you are coming with a salary from el paso. This video is very refreshing to see. Lil puppet was a chingon in my book since i was a chavito

  • @rezone010
    @rezone010 11 месяцев назад +15

    the fact that he dropped out of HS and became a actor for a world wide movie in the same HS is crazy. i get it, its a short doc but i wish you dived deeper on how he got the movie roll / maybe other key locations but it was still a dope video 👍

    • @lilpuppetam
      @lilpuppetam 10 месяцев назад +3

      How did I get the role? I was sitting at McDonald’s in Boyle Heights with my friend Teresa Covarrubias, the singer for The Brat. She was being interviewed by a UCLA Professor who was doing a documentary on East LA bands. His assistant was Ramon Menendez who went on to direct Stand And Deliver.

  • @187tolantongo
    @187tolantongo 11 месяцев назад +9

    Nice interview. Saludos from the bronx ny

  • @Dodger_Dawg_
    @Dodger_Dawg_ 11 месяцев назад +14

    Damn that part where he was talking about putting blankets on the homie who was dying and saying "don't tell my mom" then crying for his mommy is crazy. Even the toughest dude will cry for his mom when his time is coming to an end.... I've seen similar to this too. All bad, that stuff kinda haunts you. 🙏

  • @R50-v9r
    @R50-v9r 11 месяцев назад +9

    It is so important to make movies about the Chicano culture. Especially now that the culture is changing. It seems to me like the Chicano culture is fading away and the Pisano culture is taking over. We can’t let people forget those important years in history.

    • @Mexicano1768
      @Mexicano1768 10 месяцев назад +1

      It will never be forgotten.

    • @oldsoul1164
      @oldsoul1164 6 месяцев назад +2

      Good Evening. This would be considered Cholo & Varrio Culture more than anything but it would be considered a subculture within Chicano Culture just like Lowriding is a Custom Car culture & is also another subculture within Chicano Culture. I don't believe Paisano Culture is overtaking our Culture. There is a lot 1st Generation Chicanos/Mexican-Americans who do embrace that whole Mexican Vaquero culture by dressing up in the fashion & listening & dancing to the music but that has been happening since the 2000s & even as far back as the '90s. I noticed it became more pronounced after 2010 but no I don't think that is overtaking our Chicano Culture & subcultures. If anything it's the young Chicanos/as talking like they're Black & adopting other aspects of African-American Culture like hairstyles etc. The biggest thing is the whole Ebonics slang thing being adopted & used. I don't practice that & it does bother me. I don't hate the Black People at all but there are things that we did our own way but it's not practiced by a noticeable amount of Gente in the younger generation.

    • @ferniebird5643
      @ferniebird5643 2 месяца назад

      SERRIO HUH TRIP WACHAA LOWRIDIN WAS A VARRIO LOW & SLOW MACHINE BLASTIN OLDIES! NOW ITS A MEXICAN JUMPIN CAR BUMPIN CHALINO DOWN WHITTIER OR VAN NUYS 🤣👎🏽MAKE LOWRIDIN CHICANO AGAIN 2025!✊🏽 THEY NOT LIKE US!

  • @damned_1
    @damned_1 11 месяцев назад +5

    I’m proudly born and raised in EAST LOS ANGELES 👌🏽🙏🏽❤️‍🔥🔥

  • @Xxxxxrrr6464
    @Xxxxxrrr6464 11 месяцев назад +9

    Good story telling, reminds me of me how I grew up

  • @gerardohernandez4301
    @gerardohernandez4301 11 месяцев назад +7

    The moment when you grew up and were able to go to the restricted areas is priceless if you ask me .

  • @tonygutierrez4814
    @tonygutierrez4814 11 месяцев назад +7

    Good to see you Daniel you probably don't remember me we used to hang out in Roosevelt with Chico 3rd😊

  • @salvadormojica5319
    @salvadormojica5319 8 месяцев назад +1

    It's nice documentary video alot I didn't know about he's life and growing up 👍👍

  • @gm-zd9sd
    @gm-zd9sd 11 месяцев назад +9

    I remember most of those places. Lived in Aliso Village. Pecan Vilage . Ramona Gardens. Went to Hollenbeck. That open window there in the background looks like that could've been my homeroom in the 7th. Or was it 8th grade. Went to Roosevelt after. Haven't been to AL & Bea's in a long time. Aliso Village and Pecan Village not there anymore.

    • @berzerker1100
      @berzerker1100 10 месяцев назад

      Gless street, along pecan recreation park has been a hot bed for shootings/ violence in recent years, cops & paramedics always there, just saying 🫣

  • @Californiansurfer
    @Californiansurfer 11 месяцев назад +8

    ❤1970 growing up Downey California I was the only Mexicano and Calvin Chung my Chines brother 6th to 9th grade. We shared our culture and food. 2012 to 2020. I worked in jeffersonville Indiana , Mishawaka Indiana , elkhart Indiana , sheperville Kentucky and waxahachie texas. Never do that again. Remember returning. I ate at Korea town, little Tokyo and Boyle heights. I surf all year long now. Californian Surfer Downey Cali……..

  • @dynoesaur
    @dynoesaur 11 месяцев назад +6

    I was Born and raised in my hometown Boyle Heights and im proud of it

  • @jamesarias4451
    @jamesarias4451 7 месяцев назад +1

    That's a interesting commit " we can't have anything nice"

  • @jayglez451
    @jayglez451 11 месяцев назад +9

    Corner house on Guirado st close to whittier blvd, you can still see old bullet holes from shoot outs with 3rd st and WF from back in the 70s that a relative pointed out to me, chalez!! 😎

    • @lilpuppetam
      @lilpuppetam 10 месяцев назад +1

      Sorry about all the violence.

  • @abrahamflores4991
    @abrahamflores4991 11 месяцев назад +4

    I love how he put things in perspective and he is from El Paso chuco

  • @crestinemachado6959
    @crestinemachado6959 7 месяцев назад +1

    Just wanted to say hi lil puppet fro Austin,tx. I love your movies especially with big puppet but as many times as ive watced American me the part where big puppet chokes you i still cry. I love you guys.❤

  • @stevent4955
    @stevent4955 10 месяцев назад +3

    Those photos are classic ! The band “X”

  • @lupeochoa2387
    @lupeochoa2387 10 месяцев назад +3

    I have family there in boyole hights my uncle had a shop on soto st and st and Stanislaus in the 70s I stayed on grand in Huntington park my job was delivering brosures all over L.A. I was on foot doing this job I was lucky no one missed with me and Im from Tulare county great time in L.A. I wish I had stayed there but my parents sent to Fresno to work so my 70s and 80s was boxing.

  • @Jdigger4130
    @Jdigger4130 11 месяцев назад +8

    Thx dude, was interesting to see east los through the eyes of you. I found it compelling that you mentioned how stunted the area is in fact. It bums me out that so many folk are captives to another group in the US. Makes me so grateful that when I was a kid no-one told us we could or could not go somewhere ect. I will never understand why anyone clings to the notion of keeping that "culture" relevant... sounds like bondage to me! GREAT STUFF!

  • @RobertEnos-tz1um
    @RobertEnos-tz1um 11 месяцев назад +17

    Went to school with him in the 70s at hollenbeck he's right the gang he was in is extiinct

    • @medic173
      @medic173 11 месяцев назад +10

      A lot of the gangs are extinct

    • @berzerker1100
      @berzerker1100 10 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@medic173 A lot of new gangs/ cliques have sprung up, I don't hear of LA Tercera flats anymore or cuatro flats maybe they're still around but I don't see their writings on the wall, I remember a lot of different varrios from the very early 70's I went to hollenbeck, Jackson to name a few, & juvy & different fire camps🔥 I met a lot of ppl from all the different varrios, but that was in the last century 😀 Airborne 🇺🇲🪖🪂💥💣

    • @FreeTheSolid
      @FreeTheSolid 10 месяцев назад +2

      3rd st turned into Breed St

    • @medic173
      @medic173 10 месяцев назад

      @@berzerker1100 Now the one u hear about the most is kam. Sometimes u will see state and breed st. Writings. Tiny boys is still around. Also 18 is trying to move in.

    • @medic173
      @medic173 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@FreeTheSolid I didn't know that. 🤔

  • @EastLosAngeles1964classic
    @EastLosAngeles1964classic 11 месяцев назад +2

    Excellent documentation . Most of my best friends live in Boyle Heights , good gente

  • @ronaldohenriquez9064
    @ronaldohenriquez9064 11 месяцев назад +1

    IM FROM EAST OF THE RIVER HOLMES !! QUE VIVA EASTxLOS CxS .WERE PROUD OF YOU HOMERS !!🇲🇽✊🏽🙏🏽🥊💯

  • @StrangeSilverware
    @StrangeSilverware 10 месяцев назад +3

    Nice little film. I grew up in Highland Park in the 70s and spent a lot time in all of those places and NELA. It’s funny when tell people I marched with Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers in East LA they don’t believe me because I’m 6’3” still with blonde hair today. Lol “Don’t believe “ that was one of the things the Mexican kids always said and aye mi voy or “There I go” when their mom would call them. The big Sears store on Soto then down the street you pass Farmer John, hold your nose! You might not ever eat a Dodger dog after smelling it. I like how call the gang members Cholos and not Home Boys even though they were that. I think an interesting movie theme would incorporate more of the interaction between gringos like me and the Mexicans in not so long ago Los Angeles because like I had gang member friends some that even got killed. Avenues,Dog Town , C14 Clanton’s, 18th Street even MS 13 were around the area.

  • @marciareyes8422
    @marciareyes8422 11 месяцев назад +6

    You're doing good.
    Please keep up the good work.

  • @JesusMorales-cw9oi
    @JesusMorales-cw9oi 11 месяцев назад +3

    My uncle was from 3rd st. I have so much memories of that very park

    • @lilpuppetam
      @lilpuppetam 10 месяцев назад

      Who is your uncle?

    • @berzerker1100
      @berzerker1100 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@lilpuppetamI met a few guys from LA tercera, el pichon & racoona 🦝 met them in Eastlake juvenile hall, early 70's they were cool kats, Oralé pues ! 😎

  • @sandygomez1803
    @sandygomez1803 11 месяцев назад +1

    Thank you for sharing I really injoyed this video

  • @raulbravo5520
    @raulbravo5520 11 месяцев назад +5

    💯 chingona entrevista carnal

  • @lupeochoa2387
    @lupeochoa2387 10 месяцев назад +2

    Ya I trained at an old jail there don't remember if it was in boyole hights but you could see the L.A. river. I have fond memories of the L.A. area.

  • @cinflo2830
    @cinflo2830 8 месяцев назад +1

    I absolutely love that cap! Where can I find it? I'd love to support

  • @joedoe6030
    @joedoe6030 6 месяцев назад +1

    Awesome video

  • @2wheel_freedom
    @2wheel_freedom 11 месяцев назад +5

    Old school cool @ 22:50 Harley Wide glide chopper with panhead motor. It's crazy to see how thin handle bars were back then.

  • @danielorta5988
    @danielorta5988 11 месяцев назад +2

    Wow, wat a mind blower...

  • @Ralphcis
    @Ralphcis 11 месяцев назад +5

    Ejole, esta muy bien echo!

  • @gnarlyvato1999
    @gnarlyvato1999 11 месяцев назад +8

    Believe this or not ! My brother and I went to Y.A. Feb of 1995. We’ll as they were transporting us to juvenile hall bc we’re looking at some serious charges. My brother is like” remember American Me “ don’t let that 💩💩happen to us. That’s when 💩got real and you had to become another person among gangsters and juvenile felons. Even the sexual assault in the dorm where homie took ol boys life, it’s on your mind as a cautionary tale . It was also inspirational bc that was like the first time seen Chicanos on film and a warning to others going to jail to watch out for the Christmas tree knife.😮

  • @thechinchecker5194
    @thechinchecker5194 11 месяцев назад +7

    VIVA LA TERCERA - EL CALAMBRES RIP - EL PITECO RIP - EAST SIDE 3RD ST

    • @oldsoul1164
      @oldsoul1164 6 месяцев назад +1

      Good Evening. Are you from 3rd Street/La Tercera? I know they died out but they did leave a mark in the East Los area as well Los & Varrio History in general.

  • @mr.o9200
    @mr.o9200 11 месяцев назад +2

    Hearing this story is amazing!

  • @pelon3104
    @pelon3104 11 месяцев назад +2

    ORALE DANIEL 👍😎🙏

  • @sergiorosales3314
    @sergiorosales3314 11 месяцев назад +2

    Like this old stories cool

  • @tularecountycopwatch
    @tularecountycopwatch 11 месяцев назад +3

    I like this

  • @tonygutierrez4814
    @tonygutierrez4814 11 месяцев назад +3

    Good to see you Daniel ways to hang out in Roosevelt High School with Chico

  • @stevent4955
    @stevent4955 10 месяцев назад +1

    Cool documentary ! I seen all of his movies 🍿 including him in menace 2 society

  • @gizmo82bramz51
    @gizmo82bramz51 11 месяцев назад +2

    This was a good catch up bro I literally live next door my daughter was born at white memorial.

  • @Greatday-jz9lr
    @Greatday-jz9lr 11 месяцев назад +1

    Wow that was cool

  • @DanielMorales-ku1zw
    @DanielMorales-ku1zw 11 месяцев назад +4

    Met him recently hes a coo homie 💯

  • @Californiansurfer
    @Californiansurfer 11 месяцев назад +4

    ❤new book 2023. Evergreen by Naomi Hirahara. 1947 Japanese Americans released from camps are sent to Chicago and they return to little Tokyo and find Bronzville a black community The gangs, the KKK and Hammer Japanese American from Chicago “Zoot Suiter”.

  • @oc4945
    @oc4945 11 месяцев назад +2

    Funny that they shot a movie about Garfield High at Roosevelt High

  • @MIRRAPIX
    @MIRRAPIX 11 месяцев назад +1

    Good story 🎉

  • @reygomez2306
    @reygomez2306 11 месяцев назад +1

    Born in east Los but ran it in the west !!!!

  • @robertocolin3384
    @robertocolin3384 10 месяцев назад +1

    I went to Belvedere jr high in 1989 right on Brooklyn Ave

  • @chicanorock-rapfusion6411
    @chicanorock-rapfusion6411 11 месяцев назад +5

    Lincoln Heights is the original East LA. A lot of people don’t know that. Do some research for those that don’t know. VLR!

  • @gilbertflores4341
    @gilbertflores4341 11 месяцев назад +2

    Greetings and Salutations 🖖 From: G FLO

  • @K13BBB
    @K13BBB 11 месяцев назад +3

    Does Daniel remember Saku or Elioupe from 3rd? In front of the park.

    • @lilpuppetam
      @lilpuppetam 10 месяцев назад

      Alley Oop. He is older than me.

    • @K13BBB
      @K13BBB 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@lilpuppetam Yup, they are both gone now Saku ended up being my Uncle thru marriage, but has since passed away & Elioupe passed a long time ago. I was a kid when the guys from 3rd used to hang out at the benches next to the parking lot. We lived right across the street from the park. I think Elioupe was dating my Grandma

    • @K13BBB
      @K13BBB 10 месяцев назад +1

      Saku married my Aunt Jesse

  • @nogood4614
    @nogood4614 11 месяцев назад +3

    Didn’t know he was from 3RDST gang

  • @MocoritosinMex
    @MocoritosinMex 11 месяцев назад +2

    👍🏻

  • @metroblazer13
    @metroblazer13 11 месяцев назад +2

    My sister has pictures from the 3rd st gangs

  • @CV450x
    @CV450x 10 месяцев назад +1

    El Pavo and Georges burgers!!!

  • @danmorals9697
    @danmorals9697 11 месяцев назад +3

    🤠👍🏾

  • @elguerocomentero
    @elguerocomentero 7 месяцев назад +1

    Machete tried warning them...

  • @brownandproud1950
    @brownandproud1950 10 месяцев назад +1

    LA Southern Califaz

  • @junkcars4173
    @junkcars4173 10 месяцев назад +1

    Ay Vato....

  • @kunglaomorales5810
    @kunglaomorales5810 11 месяцев назад +1

    Daniels cameraman probably wrote the Primera quote in crayola 😂

    • @lilpuppetam
      @lilpuppetam 10 месяцев назад +1

      It was there already. I hope you are not saying we are making things up.

  • @MariBluethunder24
    @MariBluethunder24 5 месяцев назад +2

    I read that years ago like the 20s or 30s Boyle heights was a Jewish neighborhood

    • @Doñaluki
      @Doñaluki Месяц назад +1

      Yes Jewish irish aswell

  • @FrankyNegrete-hw8em
    @FrankyNegrete-hw8em 11 месяцев назад +2

    Damn vato life wasnt good to u now in ur older days. But ur a good actor.

  • @rudyhernandez7522
    @rudyhernandez7522 6 дней назад

    Garfield High School 1977 E.L.A

  • @juliorubio5986
    @juliorubio5986 11 месяцев назад +4

    No my friend the paint of cruzito.and Paco. Miklo is in texas

    • @alvarado8557
      @alvarado8557 11 месяцев назад +1

      Facts.

    • @Dodger_Dawg_
      @Dodger_Dawg_ 11 месяцев назад +2

      But they originally showed it in the LA river in the movie...... It was panels set up to look like a wall in the movie.. So he's right.

    • @juliorubio5986
      @juliorubio5986 11 месяцев назад +1

      @maryvalemade9840 no he's is not everyone thinks is la river is not there also a youtube video of cruzito fan and him in texas of paint wall look it up and let me .sorry

    • @Dodger_Dawg_
      @Dodger_Dawg_ 11 месяцев назад

      @@juliorubio5986 LOL SMD! Aint nobody telling you shit

    • @lilpuppetam
      @lilpuppetam 10 месяцев назад

      Adan was the artist who did the Cruzito paintings. He was from San Antonio. Rest in peace. In the documentary I am talking about the last scene of Blood In Blood Out where Cruzito and El Gallo Negro are at the LA river.

  • @MarioALBERTO-z8e
    @MarioALBERTO-z8e 9 месяцев назад +2

    Hey wat hell- lil puppet. U alive😱😱😱 didnt u die in american me🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣how is it possible🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @abw7019
    @abw7019 2 месяца назад

    He said his gang ran pf& cf outta his hood but his hood DOESN'T EXIST ANYMORE BUT PF&CF ARE ACTIVE so hard to believe they got ran out. Haha more like his gang got ran out&dropped

    • @oldsoul1164
      @oldsoul1164 26 дней назад

      That's what he said & Hollenbeck Park was where Varrio 3rd Street hung out at for a long time. I'm not sure if they got ran out they just died out. I spoke to an older Chick from there back in the '70s & '80s & she told me they were around from the late '50s til around 1999 maybe.

  • @user-joemama605
    @user-joemama605 10 месяцев назад +1

    Damn brother you play the part, as little puppet. I hope you're not making part 2 of American me because then you're going to be playing the roll of El Gordo😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @user-joemama605
    @user-joemama605 10 месяцев назад

    I really think you visited 1 to many times at AL & Bea's brother 😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @FernandoSilva-eg6gh
    @FernandoSilva-eg6gh 11 месяцев назад +1

    Boyle Heights is not East La Boyle Heights is the heart of East La nosotros (BoyleHeights)semos la pinche maquina no mas para que sepan chow 90033 por vida

  • @kathykaminski6229
    @kathykaminski6229 10 месяцев назад

    Ormigero ormigero

  • @dynoesaur
    @dynoesaur 11 месяцев назад +1

    Zamora "had!" Good carnitas back years ago now its junk

  • @DogeGoodman
    @DogeGoodman 11 месяцев назад

    Õrale....... Did Danny Give You Permission To Make Your Own Documentary ?? Yeah You Know Who This Is , That One Vato That Kicked With You And Rolled With You To All The Car Shows And When You Were Trippin' On The Vatos From Up North When Goin' To The Bathroom, I Had To Watch Your Back Like We Were On The Yard , But Since Danny Told You What To Think What To Feel , Now Your Shit Don't Stink Huh...... Chales !!!!!!!

  • @davidortiz6252
    @davidortiz6252 7 месяцев назад

    Funny how they refer to it as my hood 😂 but they always rented and never owned 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 inveciles

  • @MarkesRivera-eb5qf
    @MarkesRivera-eb5qf 11 месяцев назад +1

    A old g I give u the respect for who u are n too old g happy thank giving so take care

  • @MarkesRivera-eb5qf
    @MarkesRivera-eb5qf 11 месяцев назад +2

    People nowadays out there don't have class like it was back in the days. Respect whenever they get it by by you know I mean by doing what they doing but now they don't got that. Now they trying to ask somebody like they not me homes. I grew up in the in the old ways you know me but I'm a clown doggy you know what I'm saying I I cloudy pics out here you know and I'm a good person but I already f*** with people head because I look at you like rapposaurus but patos out there they keep it real homie but down here they keep it fake as f*** like a $3 bill they try to act like blacks but they not they scared to become brasso chicanos you know me I'm Puerto Rican Cubans are doing but I don't act like those people. I act myself, you know me I I come from from a long struggle life story history. But you people have a good over there out here. Nah man you can't even bust no sales you can't be bust no grape it's because m************ out here talking like b****** you know so you take it easy. God bless and happy Thanksgiving

  • @YvetteEastLA
    @YvetteEastLA 11 месяцев назад +1

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