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
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 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
Frank Wada, Lincoln Heights Neighborhood Council Member
Identifies his favorite food spot along the busy Lincoln Heights Broadway corridor
Produced: Mario Mesquita
Sound: Mario Mesquita
Photo: Mario Mesquita
Officer Mark Allen, LAPD
Highland Park, Lumis Fesitval 2015
Talks with local resident, Selena Romero, about he has seen over working in the Northeast Los Angeles area for over 10 + years. What benefits for the community comes with “urban renewal?”
Produced: Mario Mesquita & Selena Romero
Sound: Mario Mesquita
Photo: Victor Romero
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
Lilia Baray
Talks about her childhood memories of a rapidly changing neighborhood and the loss and recovery of a family heirloom.
Produced: Mario Mesquita
Sound: Mario Mesquita
Photo: Mario Mesquita