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Arrival Stories
Each week Jeremy Rosenberg (@LosJeremy) asks, "What's your or your family's Los Angeles arrival story?"
These are the tales of how L.A. residents became an Angeleno. From the Philippines and Mongolia to Ukraine and Chile, the map above shows the melting pot of cultures that make up the diverse communities of L.A.
Click on each pinpoint, and a link will take to you their Arrival Story. (Note: The map may not display properly on Chrome browsers. Try Firefox instead.)
These are the tales of how L.A. residents became an Angeleno. From the Philippines and Mongolia to Ukraine and Chile, the map above shows the melting pot of cultures that make up the diverse communities of L.A.
Click on each pinpoint, and a link will take to you their Arrival Story. (Note: The map may not display properly on Chrome browsers. Try Firefox instead.)
Arrival Stories:
Crossing continents, oceans and national borders isn't the only journey taken by the Los Angeles migrants and immigrants; many of our participants tell of the journey their hearts take, too.
Arrival Stories:
For the life-long educator, "the City of Angels definitely embraced me, nurtured me, taught me and I am proud that they made an angel out of me!"
Arrival Stories:
A third generation Angeleno describes his family's tight connection to Los Angeles, from working on the railroads as a Spanish interpreter to a marriage proposal at the Point Fermin Lighthouse.
Arrival Stories:
In England, it was a given that you are miserable, that's just how it is. In L.A., the goal was to be happy and cheerful and nice to people.
Arrival Stories:
Both sides of her family came from the same town in Italy -- but arrived in America under very different circumstances.
Arrival Stories:
Spanish speakers were hard to come by when she arrived to Los Angeles fifty years ago.
Arrival Stories:
We took the bus to Guatemala, where we got assaulted by our coyote. He took almost everything from us.
Arrival Stories:
Born right after the Soviet invasion of her family's home country, she grew up in two worlds: the '80s and '90s La Cañada and the world of Afghanistan.
Arrival Stories:
I said 'Amsterdam is a close second, but I want to live in L.A.'...cut to five years later, I'm still not in L.A. yet.
Arrival Stories:
Setting up shop in Chinatown was the logical conclusion after fleeing Communist China.
Arrival Stories:
Walking out of the airport was like a dream for the future Atwater Village business owner.
Arrival Stories:
From Paris, San Francisco, and London to the "shambolic Third-World-ness" of L.A.
Arrival Stories:
President Obama spent two years in L.A. as a student at Occidental College in Eagle Rock.
Arrival Stories:
Zimbabwe-born, South Africa-raised former rock'n'roller has been in L.A. for 25 years -- but still doesn't consider it home.
Arrival Stories:
L.A. has allowed the former cruise ship dancer and world traveler to redefine himself as a local politician.
Arrival Stories:
Coming from the chaotic city of São Paulo, Brazil, the laid back Los Angeles of the 70s seemed like a dream for the aspiring musician.
Arrival Stories:
Reversing the journey taken by her parents from Guatemala to Los Angeles, she felt closer to them than every before.
Arrival Stories:
The hardships faced by his grandparents as they moved from the Philippines to Los Angeles keeps this UCLA student motivated.
Arrival Stories:
Her voice roared across audiences and moved mountains.
Arrival Stories:
"There was plenty of time to ramble all over the place, meet wacky weirdos with an eye on the stairway to stardom, and discover a million and one fun, freaky, free things to do."
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