Kasandra Hernandez
Radio Personality
Discusses her life, loves, heart breaks, and deaths here at home in Lincoln Heights. “From Lincoln Park to Broadway, to the high school…This is home” Thinking about gentrification without pushing current residents out and giving her opinion on ways of coexistence for future.
Produced: Mario Mesquita
Sound: Mario Mesquita
Photo: Mario Mesquita
Robert Chavez
Talks about his childhood neighborhood, selling businesses, and community pride and businesses. Exploring how to “fix-it-up” and the growing market for the convenience of not having to leave your neighborhood for shopping.
Produced: Mario Mesquita
Sound: Mario Mesquita
Photo: Mario Mesquita
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
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.
Produced: Mario Mesquita
Sound: Mario Mesquita
Photo: Mario Mesquita
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
EN ESPAÑOL
Parroquiana habla acerca de como la comunidad latina puede educarse y recomienda de como cuidar de la comunidad, mientras que el padre empieza a practicar con el coro: “What if God was one of us…” Hay que tomar clases donde se puede y hay que cuidar el medio ambiente para que no empieza a ver desarreglada.
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
Daughter of the President of the Highland Park Neighborhood Council
Lumis Festival 2015
Shares her favorite food spot, My Taco, eating Nachos, and Monica Alcaraz, mom, explains their contributions to their community.
Produced: Mario Mesquita
Sound: Mario Mesquita
Photo: Mario Mesquita
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.
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
Highland Park Neighborhood Council Members
Lumis Festival 2015
Ask the Institute of Urban Archiving team what we are doing and what we are all about. We talk potential Lincoln Heights community partners and how to stay in touch. Curiosity is our best friend. We learn from each other and is the best way to get to know one another. We ask questions about what community members are seeing in their own neighborhood. What they want their neighborhood to be and memories they have had.
The Cart, or Mobile Research Lab, it’s evolution, and its useful purpose to take around the neighborhood, inviting people for free coffee in exchange for conversations about changes on their block.
“Why don’t you do it in Highland Park?”
It was a great way to get to know what more the Neighborhood Council can offer their residents.
Lincoln Heights Neighborhood Council
Highland Park Neighborhood Council
Produced: Mario Mesquita & Selena Romero
Sound: Mario Mesquita
Photo: Mario Mesquita