I remember when we started camaradas bike club. It is a great joy to see this documentary. Back in the days we used to cruse 6th ave on our bikes and one day we met Alex and his bro and they joined our club. Chuey, RIP Shortee, Mikee, Augie, Lillian, Peludo, Efren P. Homer P. We had a bike and car club. Shout out to Shade Tree, that was the hang out spot, “I wonder if he still has the Cheeto’s bike?”we had our meetings there. The name camaradas meant “my friends”. For those who don’t understand the bike thang I’ll explain. Building a bike from scratch with your own two hands, exhibiting what you build, sharing with your camaradas ideas between each other on building a better bike to kill the competition or winning awards it was a far better thing than gangs. Belonging to something bigger than your self. Helping young kids to stay away from drugs, violence, or whatever. Helping them be creative or Just being an inspiration to the youth. Shout out to big Alex, Eloy, Maricela, Erica. From Chuey
Hahaha that's the shits I remember all that stuff I was from Bueno estilo in South Tucson I remember when the bike club broke up and then they became raza unida what a trip but hey so did our club we become nemesis
Grew up in south Tucson had no idea it was like this back then you don’t see no clubs riding around anymore or maybe I’m just not seeing it every night
I remember when we recorded this it was fun I miss those days . I was like 12 years old when I joined the Camaradas bike club lol I miss going to car shows and cruising with the crew it was always real fun and I still have my bike . RIP Shade Tree 🙏🏼
@@Philserino I moved in 2013 to Europe. Bought a sailboat, lived on it for three years, then sold it. Now inland in the UK. Not sure what next. The eternal tumbleweed...
moved to Tucson from Ireland in 2011,wish i came in the 90's it looked more fun,ive been working down the Southside with people from Mexico for the last 3 years, beautiful beautiful people,i enjoyed this documentary
Man.i miss this Tucson, slow ,simple and laid back. Now with all the gentrification BS,we are nothing then a Slave town operating under whatever the dictatorship of authority says,some things never change in respect to the heavey handedness of the mayor and her cronies.I grew up on cardinal and Losreales I miss the love of the south side.
I used to manage the liquor store in front of Shade Tree’s old bike shop on south 6th/32nd street (Ice Plant Liquors). He was always filled with quiet wisdom and an understated coolness. RIP, Shade. I still have the Buck knife you traded with me. Godspeed.
Thats my old hood, South T, Barrio Libre my barrio, some homies made it and some didnt. Camaradas vatos from Califas , Orale never met them but they seem to have a good heart, My familia is still in the barrio I go there but not often enough. Sad to see some homies who never found themselfs fading away on the streets. but always feel safe when Im there or when Im driving by. Great piece Marrianne Dissard.
Thanks! Yes, good hearts all around. I've lost touch with some and Shade Tree passed some years back. Miguel Ortega still fighting the good fights in town. The kids have grown. Can't wait to get back. Three months to go and Tucson!!
Really interesting documentary...thank so much for showing me this reality Marianne. As from now you got a portuguese fan of your movies, loved the music on it!!!
This documentary was a tearful and joyous trip back down memory lane. A simpler time, we had our ups and downs with gang banging and racial profiling but these were the days where families were always together at the parks, fiesta's and at the bike shows. Thank you 🙏
By any chance is there any footage of the all girls Lowrider car club from Tucson back in the day. They used to be called dream angels and I believe they were around in the 80’s
Not that I know of... I vaguely remember the name but you should be able to track them down, through people who still live in Tucson, maybe... ? Sorry I can't help.
Hell yeah, Way up on the north side, we would mob in groups and ride BMX daily. Street and park and dirt. Remember the company spooky tooth? I bought one of their lowrider models back in the day haha. Little 48cc motor on that thing rattled the hell out of it. Yeah bikes man wow. I want to get an electric one these days. The TNBR too haha, Tuesday night bike ride that starts at the flagpole at the u of A. What a trip. And that dude's just mad at the world I wouldn't even worry about that.
Marianne Dissard I'm from South Tucson, I graduated from Pueblo High. This was a very cool visual of the community. Are you still in contact with anyone?
I am from tucson and grew up in the barrio barrio viejo. I knew my environment growing up. I chose to get an education and get out.I dont care where your from. Its about the choices we make in life.
Did you happen to take any footage of girls and lowriders? My girls and I remember being asked to be apart of a documentary around 96 for international viewing and through out the years I have always been intrigued to what it came about. Back then we where directed to a car garage but for some reason we never found it. Time has passed, what a blessing it would be to finally track it down after so many years. So young and carefree. Thank you for your work!
Hello there. I don't think we did. And I wouldn't have access to any more footage than what is in this video here. Write me at mariannedissard@gmail.com if you have more questions. I don't get notifications from TH-cam about the comments. Thanks!
at this time i was 3 years old, living on 28th and rosemont. when i was 10 my father would get a good job offer from his friend in north carolina, and i would move away. i sometimes wonder if this cultural disconnect i feel is because i wasnt able to grow up chicano, but instead as a displaced half mexican kid in north Carolina. my dad did not teach me Spanish cuz he was worried i would be discriminated against. i hope i can get back what ive been missing, but i feel fake.
I was 16 when I moved from France to Arizona. I tried telling all my American boyfriends I couldn't cook amazing French food or do all sorts of French things they imagined I could do or be. I also remember that until the day I got my US citizenship, when people would ask my name, I'd reply 'Marianne' but with a sort-of American accent, trying to blend in. That never worked. On the day I became officially American, I started pronouncing my name, Marianne, the French way. Go figure... It's never easy being displaced. I'm sorry you feel 'fake'. I'm certain you're a real person, one of a kind.
@@MarianneDissard I'm not sure if you remember cafe Quebec, that became cafe Q, me and a friend Eldon bought it (with almost no money lol) and created Shot in the Dark cafe which we made collective, it lasted about 10 years.. a lot of downtown memories, fun, heartaches, tragedy, massive change etc. So the first scenes in the doc I recognized a few people, so cool.
There is nothing wrong with one's culture, not being aware of it, not participating in it, not in preserving it. However, there are many across all cultures, who are so desperate for their own culture that they cling so tightly to it, and wrap themselves up in it to such a degree that it is that strong desire for one's culture that is the ultimate cause of them being divided and furthermore, losing their culture. You can only lose that which you are clinging to, and this clinging prevents you from attaining inner peace, and it also gives the global elites what they need to divide all of us further, and strip us further of our cultures. It is your clinging to your culture which permits the global elites from stripping more of it from you.
21:14 I would really like to know to what genocide he is referring that the government is committing against "his people". Perhaps I am ignorant and blind . . . for we all are ignorant, and blind to some extent, to various degrees, yet too many of us refuse to recognize that, and worse, refuse to open their eyes, increase their awareness, and accumulate more knowledge . . . they, for whatever reason, rather to continue living as a blind person. If there is any genocide being committed by the government, I want to know, because I won't care what race is being targeted, I will stand up against such an atrocity in every way of which I am capable. I want to know! However, I think it may be a case of narrow sight. Many people who are able to see the nefarious activities of our government against its people can only see it as acts against their race. They fail to see how the government's actions affect everyone. They are only able to see the misdeeds of our so-called government in the context of their people. It's as if they have fallen victim to that whole victimization bullshit that is so popular nowadays, except their victimization is the only one that matters, or is far worse than anybody else's, because instead of seeing certain actions being used against all citizens, they only see how it affects their group, and here, instead of gender victimization, or sexual identity victimization, non-cis white male victimization, it is racial victimization. The global elites, the ones who control our government, and cause the repression, and the "genocide" to appear that it originates from our government rather than some other power-control mechanism that is controlling our government to create various legislature, and to take specific actions, are the ones that are responsible for nearly all of the suffering, miseries, woes, and hardships on this planet. They are able to do this horrendous things against humanity, and remain hidden from nearly everyone. If you don't know the ones who are responsible for your troubles even exist, how will you ever place the blame where it belongs? Instead, those who should hold the guilt of these atrocities are convincing this group of people that their troubles are caused by that group over there, and that group over there, they have convinced that it is some other group of people who are to blame for their suffering . . . and they manage to remain unknown and pull this fraud off! The old tactic of divide and conquer. They divide us up further and further by using most of the ISMs: racism, sexism, genderism, lookism, ageism, nationalism, tribalism, spiritualism, classism, etc., and one can easily see how that manipulation has taken hold here. We need to quit classifying ourselves, and just focus on being humans long enough to realize who humanity's enemies truly are, and unite with one another to eliminate that enemy from this planet. They may be masters of manipulation, but we only need to have a small portion of the people realize who they are, and what they have been responsible for, and it would not require that many of us to cleanse the world of their filth!!! Otherwise, nobody is going to be worried about the Chicano race, nor the Caucasian race, nor the African race or any other, for there won't be many of us left alive, and those that are will simply be the slave race!!!
I remember when we started camaradas bike club. It is a great joy to see this documentary.
Back in the days we used to cruse 6th ave on our bikes and one day we met Alex and his bro and they joined our club.
Chuey, RIP Shortee, Mikee, Augie, Lillian, Peludo, Efren P. Homer P.
We had a bike and car club.
Shout out to Shade Tree, that was the hang out spot, “I wonder if he still has the Cheeto’s bike?”we had our meetings there. The name camaradas meant “my friends”. For those who don’t understand the bike thang I’ll explain. Building a bike from scratch with your own two hands, exhibiting what you build, sharing with your camaradas ideas between each other on building a better bike to kill the competition or winning awards it was a far better thing than gangs. Belonging to something bigger than your self. Helping young kids to stay away from drugs, violence, or whatever. Helping them be creative or Just being an inspiration to the youth.
Shout out to big Alex, Eloy, Maricela, Erica.
From Chuey
Hahaha that's the shits I remember all that stuff I was from Bueno estilo in South Tucson I remember when the bike club broke up and then they became raza unida what a trip but hey so did our club we become nemesis
i love this so much i just keep going back and finding these amazing films about this place i love and live
This documentary won an award right ? It’s a masterpiece
Ahh nah. I wish it was and it did, but no. Glad you liked it though.
My Tios German and Alex were a big part of the Camaradas! A huge reason I’m proud to be chicana! 🇲🇽
I remember them well! Say hello from me.
This was a cool throwback. I remember checking them out cruise around. It would be nice to see them nowadays.
Grew up in south Tucson had no idea it was like this back then you don’t see no clubs riding around anymore or maybe I’m just not seeing it every night
They're around... ;)
I remember when we recorded this it was fun I miss those days . I was like 12 years old when I joined the Camaradas bike club lol I miss going to car shows and cruising with the crew it was always real fun and I still have my bike . RIP Shade Tree 🙏🏼
Do you still live in Tucson?
Is the club still around ?
@@Philserino yeah I still live in Tucson the club isn’t together anymore but we see old members time to time
@@Philserino I moved in 2013 to Europe. Bought a sailboat, lived on it for three years, then sold it. Now inland in the UK. Not sure what next. The eternal tumbleweed...
moved to Tucson from Ireland in 2011,wish i came in the 90's it looked more fun,ive been working down the Southside with people from Mexico for the last 3 years, beautiful beautiful people,i enjoyed this documentary
Thanks for watching! I don't know if it was more fun back in the 90s but I miss those days. What do you do in the Southside?
Tucson in 1996. I was 14. Woof.
Man.i miss this Tucson, slow ,simple and laid back. Now with all the gentrification BS,we are nothing then a Slave town operating under whatever the dictatorship of authority says,some things never change in respect to the heavey handedness of the mayor and her cronies.I grew up on cardinal and Losreales I miss the love of the south side.
It sounds like Tucson has changed and keeps changing, not for the best for most, but there's community. Can't say that where i live now.
I used to manage the liquor store in front of Shade Tree’s old bike shop on south 6th/32nd street (Ice Plant Liquors). He was always filled with quiet wisdom and an understated coolness. RIP, Shade. I still have the Buck knife you traded with me. Godspeed.
I remember the liquor store, and the shop, and that parking lot! Well, the whole street! Thanks for your message. Godspeed to you too.
Great documentary Marianne, I've heard great things about Shadetree and this film. Thanks for putting this wonderful film up.
Welcome, Scott!
How did I miss this for 4yrs?
I'll listen to her voice all day! lol
I love my town 520 all day...
Thats my old hood, South T, Barrio Libre my barrio, some homies made it and some didnt. Camaradas vatos from Califas , Orale never met them but they seem to have a good heart, My familia is still in the barrio I go there but not often enough. Sad to see some homies who never found themselfs fading away on the streets. but always feel safe when Im there or when Im driving by. Great piece Marrianne Dissard.
Thanks! Yes, good hearts all around. I've lost touch with some and Shade Tree passed some years back. Miguel Ortega still fighting the good fights in town. The kids have grown. Can't wait to get back. Three months to go and Tucson!!
Really interesting documentary...thank so much for showing me this reality Marianne. As from now you got a portuguese fan of your movies, loved the music on it!!!
This documentary was a tearful and joyous trip back down memory lane. A simpler time, we had our ups and downs with gang banging and racial profiling but these were the days where families were always together at the parks, fiesta's and at the bike shows. Thank you 🙏
omg i love this idk why it doesnt have more views!
I would buy bike from shay when he had his shop in south tucson. back in the day memories
Wasn't he the best? I'm sad I sold that bike he built for me.
By any chance is there any footage of the all girls Lowrider car club from Tucson back in the day. They used to be called dream angels and I believe they were around in the 80’s
Not that I know of... I vaguely remember the name but you should be able to track them down, through people who still live in Tucson, maybe... ? Sorry I can't help.
Thats my old neigborhood the bikes are crusin at the beganning of the video. 18th and 6th AVE.
SO AMAZING! Ages like fine win!!!
Thanks!
it still looks pretty much the same around here as it did back in this video.
Hell yeah, Way up on the north side, we would mob in groups and ride BMX daily. Street and park and dirt. Remember the company spooky tooth? I bought one of their lowrider models back in the day haha. Little 48cc motor on that thing rattled the hell out of it. Yeah bikes man wow. I want to get an electric one these days. The TNBR too haha, Tuesday night bike ride that starts at the flagpole at the u of A. What a trip. And that dude's just mad at the world I wouldn't even worry about that.
Chicano Power! Que Viva Aztlan!
This is when Tucson was cool. It is a repressed city now days police state kind of feel. Sure love this video tho thanks for making it!
my city man
what a great documentary!!!!!!!! TUCSON AZ!!!!!!!
Thanks! It was a while back. Things have changed and things haven't changed.
Marianne Dissard god bless
are you still in Tucson?
no, i left a couple of years ago after being there close to twenty years. miss the place!
Marianne Dissard I'm from South Tucson, I graduated from Pueblo High. This was a very cool visual of the community. Are you still in contact with anyone?
lots of people in tucson, not necessarily very often anyone from the film though. ps: I did some subbing at Pueblo way back!
My dad told me about this last night. His bike was called booger
You’re dad is Jerome ? My dad gave him the name booger lol 😆
Was he in a club, in that club?
LOS 90s.LA ULTIMA DECADA DE FELICIDAD Y BUENA ECONOMIA DE USA.😢😢😢
I am from tucson and grew up in the barrio barrio viejo. I knew my environment growing up. I chose to get an education and get out.I dont care where your from. Its about the choices we make in life.
You’re. I stayed Tucson to continue to support this community by being an educator.
Did you happen to take any footage of girls and lowriders? My girls and I remember being asked to be apart of a documentary around 96 for international viewing and through out the years I have always been intrigued to what it came about. Back then we where directed to a car garage but for some reason we never found it. Time has passed, what a blessing it would be to finally track it down after so many years. So young and carefree. Thank you for your work!
Hello there. I don't think we did. And I wouldn't have access to any more footage than what is in this video here. Write me at mariannedissard@gmail.com if you have more questions. I don't get notifications from TH-cam about the comments. Thanks!
Good times
at this time i was 3 years old, living on 28th and rosemont. when i was 10 my father would get a good job offer from his friend in north carolina, and i would move away. i sometimes wonder if this cultural disconnect i feel is because i wasnt able to grow up chicano, but instead as a displaced half mexican kid in north Carolina. my dad did not teach me Spanish cuz he was worried i would be discriminated against. i hope i can get back what ive been missing, but i feel fake.
I was 16 when I moved from France to Arizona. I tried telling all my American boyfriends I couldn't cook amazing French food or do all sorts of French things they imagined I could do or be. I also remember that until the day I got my US citizenship, when people would ask my name, I'd reply 'Marianne' but with a sort-of American accent, trying to blend in. That never worked. On the day I became officially American, I started pronouncing my name, Marianne, the French way. Go figure... It's never easy being displaced. I'm sorry you feel 'fake'. I'm certain you're a real person, one of a kind.
North Carolina had to have been better! Tucson isn't very cultural, despite being close to the border. Hit California, it's not too far
I swear when cliCCed on this video it said marianne
*marianne diss*
Weird that I know some of these faces..
Glad you remember them, David.
@@MarianneDissard I'm not sure if you remember cafe Quebec, that became cafe Q, me and a friend Eldon bought it (with almost no money lol) and created Shot in the Dark cafe which we made collective, it lasted about 10 years.. a lot of downtown memories, fun, heartaches, tragedy, massive change etc. So the first scenes in the doc I recognized a few people, so cool.
I was part of the Lowrider bike club in this documentary
chicano.....nor from here(america) nor from there(mexico).....a little bit of this, a little bit of that, nimodo.......
Thats the paisa take xicano is a indigenous person frm here we didnt cross the border border crossed us 5th generation in LaTusa Ariza BARRIO ANITA
Viva la Raza
Arizona was not home to the Aztecs wtf? lol
not it all
Yaqui and T.O are our brothers and native tongue is uto-aztec chicano power
@@saucytony4609 eres de una conquistadora no azteca
@@xtooomb2275 pinchie malenche! Its mexica pendejete jajajaja 😂😂😂
@@xtooomb22755th generation xikano born and raised laTusa rAZa Barrio Anita fuck the Spaniards Puro indigenous opata🪶
bro u can get a lowrider its a fuckin bike
Why weren't white women allowed to film these documentaries anymore?
There is nothing wrong with one's culture, not being aware of it, not participating in it, not in preserving it. However, there are many across all cultures, who are so desperate for their own culture that they cling so tightly to it, and wrap themselves up in it to such a degree that it is that strong desire for one's culture that is the ultimate cause of them being divided and furthermore, losing their culture. You can only lose that which you are clinging to, and this clinging prevents you from attaining inner peace, and it also gives the global elites what they need to divide all of us further, and strip us further of our cultures. It is your clinging to your culture which permits the global elites from stripping more of it from you.
21:14
I would really like to know to what genocide he is referring that the government is committing against "his people". Perhaps I am ignorant and blind . . . for we all are ignorant, and blind to some extent, to various degrees, yet too many of us refuse to recognize that, and worse, refuse to open their eyes, increase their awareness, and accumulate more knowledge . . . they, for whatever reason, rather to continue living as a blind person. If there is any genocide being committed by the government, I want to know, because I won't care what race is being targeted, I will stand up against such an atrocity in every way of which I am capable. I want to know! However, I think it may be a case of narrow sight. Many people who are able to see the nefarious activities of our government against its people can only see it as acts against their race. They fail to see how the government's actions affect everyone. They are only able to see the misdeeds of our so-called government in the context of their people. It's as if they have fallen victim to that whole victimization bullshit that is so popular nowadays, except their victimization is the only one that matters, or is far worse than anybody else's, because instead of seeing certain actions being used against all citizens, they only see how it affects their group, and here, instead of gender victimization, or sexual identity victimization, non-cis white male victimization, it is racial victimization. The global elites, the ones who control our government, and cause the repression, and the "genocide" to appear that it originates from our government rather than some other power-control mechanism that is controlling our government to create various legislature, and to take specific actions, are the ones that are responsible for nearly all of the suffering, miseries, woes, and hardships on this planet. They are able to do this horrendous things against humanity, and remain hidden from nearly everyone. If you don't know the ones who are responsible for your troubles even exist, how will you ever place the blame where it belongs? Instead, those who should hold the guilt of these atrocities are convincing this group of people that their troubles are caused by that group over there, and that group over there, they have convinced that it is some other group of people who are to blame for their suffering . . . and they manage to remain unknown and pull this fraud off! The old tactic of divide and conquer. They divide us up further and further by using most of the ISMs: racism, sexism, genderism, lookism, ageism, nationalism, tribalism, spiritualism, classism, etc., and one can easily see how that manipulation has taken hold here. We need to quit classifying ourselves, and just focus on being humans long enough to realize who humanity's enemies truly are, and unite with one another to eliminate that enemy from this planet. They may be masters of manipulation, but we only need to have a small portion of the people realize who they are, and what they have been responsible for, and it would not require that many of us to cleanse the world of their filth!!! Otherwise, nobody is going to be worried about the Chicano race, nor the Caucasian race, nor the African race or any other, for there won't be many of us left alive, and those that are will simply be the slave race!!!