Me and my kids grew up in boyle heights thats my neighborhood.i was born in mexico but my heart belongs to Boyles heights its always been a close community with a great heart its like a big family.and i also know that oscar de la holla lived in boyle heights did his boxing training and became famous also felipe esparza grew up in boyle heights
🏡🤗🕊 I was a Russian kid, the Russian church on Lorena st Hill. We used to throw lemons or (the bad boys threw rocks) at the Mexican kids; my Dad went to Garfield high. The A/Z nut wagon had the best seeds. We respected everyone and showed love back then 🍋🙏🎶 He mentions my cousin names on the sports team. I speak Russian/ Mexican/ English and make tamales 🍒 Great information !
I lived at 113 1/2 S Soto, then we moved next door to 119 S Soto. My Grandparents had an open front Grocery Store on 1st Street between Soto and Breed. I left Boyle Heights and moved to North Hollywood when I was 20.
I have always been fascinated with Boyle Heights. My great grandfather Andrew Hayman came their from Arkansas in 1912 and lived on New Jersey street near evergreen cemetery, before moving to Pomeroy Ave in Terrace Heights. People often forget that there was an active African American community that thrived there before WWII. Our cousins the Spencers arrive in Boyle Heights from Arkansas arrive even earlier than the Hayman. Their children Kenneth and Gwen Spencer graduated from Garfield High School. Their father William Spencer became one of the first blacks on the LA PD in 1910. His son Kenneth studied Opera in Boyle Heights and would go on to become an acclaimed singer and actor. My great grandfather died in 1946 and by then our families had moved to South L.A and Watts.
According to Wikipedia, which has an excellent profile of him, his full name, which I never knew was Kenneth Lee Spencer (1913-1964). I didn’t know him but knew his sister Gwen who was born a year after him and lived to be over 104 years old, before her death a few years ago. Both of them graduated from Garfield HS,
My grandma was born and raised in Boyle Heights. She remembered the time of the depression. She told me she was with her mom (my great grandma) in line to get food for assistance...
Im East Los Angeles( Maravilla District) raised. Spent littlectime in Boyle Hts. From the looks of things Boyle Hts had a much stronger ethnicity representation than Maravilla. I live in Boyle Hts today, wished id had a stronger connection here then because its hard to see the old Neighborhood feel today..Great documentary.
As diverse as Boyle Heights once was; now a small group of residents are determined to keep other cultures out. Their also doing their best to erase it's past
Well It happens check Los Angeles streets have changed also erasing it’s past repeatedly over the years, reflecting the city’s transformation from a tiny Mexican colonial town to a big metropolis!!…😂😂
❤. 2023. Evergreen by Noami Hirahara. 1947 Japanese Americans are sent to camps and sent to chicago and return to Little Tokyo to find Brownsville a black community. The Jewish community moved out of Boyle heights , the mob, the KKK , the 100/442. Japanese American soldiers “Go For Broke”. Hammer Japanese American Zoot suture from Chicago. Great read of 1940
It's funny because these so-called "gangsters" you speak of clearly played a role in the gentrification of Boyle Heights you see happening today. They turned a run-of-the-mill L.A. neighborhood into a Third World $h!th0le for so long, the property investors and house flippers finally had to intervene, and that's how you get gentrification in the first place.
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Dirty as hell can be ,with urine and crap on sidewalks, but some people think its hippie eating outside on urine saturated sidewalks.
Whatever diversity Boyle Heights had back in the day, it's long gone and now it's almost completely Mexican. Moreover, many of these old-timers are no longer around.
Me and my kids grew up in boyle heights thats my neighborhood.i was born in mexico but my heart belongs to Boyles heights its always been a close community with a great heart its like a big family.and i also know that oscar de la holla lived in boyle heights did his boxing training and became famous also felipe esparza grew up in boyle heights
Awesome film. I was born in 1952 at the White Memorial but my parents were raised in Boyle Heights but we moved to El Sereno around 1957.
🏡🤗🕊 I was a Russian kid, the Russian church on Lorena st Hill. We used to throw lemons or (the bad boys threw rocks) at the Mexican kids; my Dad went to Garfield high. The A/Z nut wagon had the best seeds. We respected everyone and showed love back then 🍋🙏🎶 He mentions my cousin names on the sports team. I speak Russian/ Mexican/ English and make tamales 🍒 Great information !
So nice to see the old generation living in my hood ..nice to see the history of boyle heights
I lived at 113 1/2 S Soto, then we moved next door to 119 S Soto. My Grandparents had an open front Grocery Store on 1st Street between Soto and Breed. I left Boyle Heights and moved to North Hollywood when I was 20.
Safer than the 70’s!
I have always been fascinated with Boyle Heights. My great grandfather Andrew Hayman came their from Arkansas in 1912 and lived on New Jersey street near evergreen cemetery, before moving to Pomeroy Ave in Terrace Heights. People often forget that there was an active African American community that thrived there before WWII. Our cousins the Spencers arrive in Boyle Heights from Arkansas arrive even earlier than the Hayman. Their children Kenneth and Gwen Spencer graduated from Garfield High School. Their father William Spencer became one of the first blacks on the LA PD in 1910. His son Kenneth studied Opera in Boyle Heights and would go on to become an acclaimed singer and actor. My great grandfather died in 1946 and by then our families had moved to South L.A and Watts.
Wow! I love this! Thanks for sharing! I want to look up Kenneth.
Was his middle name "Floyd"? Did he go into World War II. There are dozens of Kenneth Spencers on Ancestry.com in California.
According to Wikipedia, which has an excellent profile of him, his full name, which I never knew was Kenneth Lee Spencer (1913-1964). I didn’t know him but knew his sister Gwen who was born a year after him and lived to be over 104 years old, before her death a few years ago. Both of them graduated from Garfield HS,
@@juanitadaleslusher5218 Not sure if her served in WWII but he was not only featured in 1942 movie Cabin in the Sky but the WWII drama Bataan!
@@lesthebest3171 No way! Dang it! I have Cabin in the Sky, but on VHS. I need to get it on DVD. Let me see if that is on TH-cam.
My cousins the Hierro lived on Malabar.
My grandma was born and raised in Boyle Heights. She remembered the time of the depression. She told me she was with her mom (my great grandma) in line to get food for assistance...
Thank you!
Im East Los Angeles( Maravilla District) raised. Spent littlectime in Boyle Hts. From the looks of things Boyle Hts had a much stronger ethnicity representation than Maravilla. I live in Boyle Hts today, wished id had a stronger connection here then because its hard to see the old Neighborhood feel today..Great documentary.
God bless los Angeles
Very cool. I seen some familiar faces. 😀
As diverse as Boyle Heights once was; now a small group of residents are determined to keep other cultures out. Their also doing their best to erase it's past
Well It happens check Los Angeles streets have changed also erasing it’s past repeatedly over the years, reflecting the city’s transformation from a tiny Mexican colonial town to a big metropolis!!…😂😂
❤. 2023. Evergreen by Noami Hirahara. 1947 Japanese Americans are sent to camps and sent to chicago and return to Little Tokyo to find Brownsville a black community. The Jewish community moved out of Boyle heights , the mob, the KKK , the 100/442. Japanese American soldiers “Go For Broke”. Hammer Japanese American Zoot suture from Chicago. Great read of 1940
Gangsters live in Boyle heights
It's funny because these so-called "gangsters" you speak of clearly played a role in the gentrification of Boyle Heights you see happening today. They turned a run-of-the-mill L.A. neighborhood into a Third World $h!th0le for so long, the property investors and house flippers finally had to intervene, and that's how you get gentrification in the first place.
Dirty as hell can be ,with urine and crap on sidewalks, but some people think its hippie eating outside on urine saturated sidewalks.
Whatever diversity Boyle Heights had back in the day, it's long gone and now it's almost completely Mexican. Moreover, many of these old-timers are no longer around.
I live in Boyle Hts today and sence that community gone..
all of these areas are now homeless camps... mission acomplished
tell me how you don't live or been to boyle heights