Category Archives: Changes

Family Ties and a Pull to Return to the Neighbohood his Parents Grew Up In

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Andrew Chavez
Spending holidays and summers at grandmother’s house. Lincoln Heights is a place where people still have deep roots, where parents attended schools still standing, shops and landmarks are still places that current resident stroll by, memories about being touched by social movements and boycotts, as well as changes dictating and shaping the neighborhood to as it stands today.

Listen to Andrew’s mother recollect a changing neighborhood and the time her mother lost her wedding ring.
Listen to Andrew’s father here.

Produced: Mario Mesquita
Sound: Mario Mesquita
Photo: Mario Mesquita

Trabajando en Lincoln Heights y los cambios buenos que ha visto en estos últimos años

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Mayra,  Esteticista/Peluquera
En un día soleado y caluroso, Mayra, mi peluquera que he visitado tres veces consecutivos, describe un poco de su experiencia emigrando a, viviendo, y trabajando en Lincoln Heights. Habla a cerca de como la afecto el cambio en la economía, por que ya no vive en el vecindario pero sigue trabajando aquí. Y luego empieza a entrevistarme a mi y hablar más a fondo de su trabajo de caridad y posible plan de regresar a su país de origen, Honduras.

Noel’s Hair Salon

Produced: Mario Mesquita
Sound: Mario Mesquita
Photo: Mario Mesquita

The Good Outweighing the Bad of Gentrification

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Highland Park Resident
Lumis Festival 2015

Compares gentrification in Northeast Los Angeles, the city she left, and Washington D.C., the city she now lives and works in. Shares her favorite food spots and neighborhood landmarks like La Estrella and Café de Leche, as well as businesses that would “come and go”.

Kitchen Mouse
Good Girl Dinette

Produced: Selena Romero
Sound: Mario Mesquita
Photo: Victor Romero

High School Hang Out and Favorite Spot to Eat Still in Existence

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Tonya, Highland Park Resident, Lincoln Heights Adjacent Resident
Lumis Fesitval 2015

El Huarache Azteca has been in the neighborhood for years, and for many still living in the neighborhood, despite whatever rating is posted in the window, is still a spot to go for delicious Mexican food. Tony and friends, no matter the time past and distance that separates them, remember it fondly but haven’t been back because of the changing times.

Produced: Mario Mesquita
 Sound: Mario Mesquita
Photo: Victor Romero

What can a Neighborhood Council do & Gentrification

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Highland Park Neighborhood Council
Lumis Festival 2015

Monica Alcaraz, Highland Park Neighborhood Council’s President, and other members, gives us a brief explanation of what they can do and how they take care of the neighborhood, keeping the community and gentrification in mind.

“One of the things we need to do as a community is  to help preserve what’s there and to help those that don’t have a voice…”

The Marketplace Coverage of Gentrification and Opening of a Bureau by The Wealth & Poverty Desk: York & Fig

Talking about gentrification vs. what actions can be taken about gentrification.

Produced: Mario Mesquita
Sound: Mario Mesquita
Photo: Mario Mesquita

Changes, a Picnic, and Getting to Know Our Neighbors

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Liz Peña
Talks about her recent observations on changes occurring in Lincoln Heights, a neighborhood she has lived in all her life, and what could Lincoln Heights be in the future. Giving a suggestion on how to get neighbors to begin to get to know one another. A simple idea, but brilliant in it’s action: a picnic.

Produced: Mario Mesquita
Sound: Mario Mesquita
Photo: Mario Mesquita

Ya Entraron Padre…

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EN ESPAÑOL

“Tenemos que luchar contra los blancos que nos invaden!” Is how Father Thomas Carey jokingly introduces the subject of gentrification and what some of his parishioners are experiencing. Parishioners of the Historical Church of the Epiphany talk about race differences, and even lack of human respect for one another as a reason for a disconnect between one another, and their own participation in apathy for human interactions.

What Kinds of Changes Do We Want to See, Growing up in Lincoln Heights, & Fighting for Rights

Vera Padilla
Long time Resident, Teacher, Lincoln Heights Neighborhood Council Woman

“I think that’s what we want to see here…”

Is Highland Park something that we want to see happen in Lincoln Heights? Fight for your rights and where to start. Vera talks about changes she sees as positive that would help Lincoln Heights, growing up, what it was like in La Cañada and coming back to Lincoln Heights.

Produced: Mario Mesquita 
Sound: Mario Mesquit