The updated version of an Oral History video featuring interviews and images from Los Angeles Public Library's Photo Collection depicts life in the Jewish community of Boyle Heights in the 1930’s, 40’s, and 50's.
THANK YOU FOR THESE STORIES. MY FAMILY OWNED "EL CENTAVITO" ON 1ST STREET, ON THE BOYLE HEIGHTS/EAST L.A BORDER. MY GREAT-GRANDFATHER LEARNED SOME YIDDISH TO SPEAK TO HIS JEWISH CUSTOMERS AT THE CENTAVITO, IT WAS A GROCERY/GENERAL STORE AT THE TIME. MY FAMILY STILL LIVES IN EAST L.A.
Ty for sharing this story. I was born in City Terrace in 1964 to Hispanic parents from El Paso. I grew up with Jewish owned stores. There was a 5 and dime I think my generation was the last of the children that grew up with the last of the Jewish stores. My mom bought a house on Malabar St. in Boyle heights in 1979 it was like moving to another world. Everyone in the neighborhood spoke Spanish. It's nice to hear about your lives I always wondered what ELA was like right before I was born.
This was so nice to watch and learn of my childhood neighborhood. I was born in Chicago my parents moved to LA in 1970 and decided to stay we first lived on Chicago st near Sheridan elementary where I attended til we moved to Fairmont st and attended Evergreen elementary. We then moved to Pomeroy st til my parents bought their first home on Inez st in the Lorena and Whittier area. I attended Hollenbeck Jr high and Roosevelt High. I now live in Utah which I love but I don't forget where I came from.
Thank you six girls from Boyle Heights May the Lord continue to bless you and keep you. This was the Los Angeles of my father and his family, of which, in spite of being Angeleno born myself, I know very, very little about. It was a fascinating hour.
I was born and grew up in Boyle Heights. I remember my parents telling us stories of Boyle Heights when they grew up in the 30’s, 40’s, and 50’s and that everyone mostly got along fairly well. My grandfather worked at the Dakota Bakery on Brooklyn catering to the Jewish families.
I saw one called "Meet Me at Brooklyn & Soto" It was about how multi ethnic Boyle Heights was in the 1920s - 1950s I saw it on Jewish Life TV many years ago. I think that there was an advertisement for the DVD following the feature. [Self Edit] The documentary is on YT! So, enjoy.
❤❤❤. Evergreen by Naomi Hirahara. 1947. Japanese Americans are sent to camps and released and sent to Chicago and returned to Little Tokyo to find Bronzville Black Community. The Jewish community moved out of Boyle Heights , the mob, the KKK, the 100/442 Japanese American soldiers “Go for broke” and Hammer Japanese American Zoot suitor from Chicago Great book and history of Los Angeles in 1940. Enjoy. Surfer Frank Downey 😂😂😂😂😂
What happened to L.A. to become so crime ridden and violent? Boyle Heights has a bad reputation, not safe, especially for a White or Asian person walking around there.
Yiddish is middle high German with loan words from Hebrew Aramaic and Slavic and is a Diaspora language just like Ladino for Sephardic Jews. All my Grandparents spoke Yiddish.
