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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:
One by one, his aunts and uncles moved from Louisiana to Los Angeles, starting a wave of migration for his family.
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Creole cooking and "porch culture" were brought down from the South to Los Angeles by her great-grandparents, adding to the mix of many cultures that shaped her life.
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Every time he move to a new part of town in L.A., he searches for signs of the paranormal.
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For a Chilean exile and his family, the cul-de-sac suburbia of Orange County was a complete shock, but it offered an endless sense of blissed-out freedom.
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The director of "Re-Animator" -- the film and the musical -- finds inspiration in the strange and obscure worlds of Los Angeles.
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For Turkish-born architect Orhan Ayyuce, a three-month stay to visit his sister turned into a 30-year love affair with Los Angeles.
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"It was the discovery of both an incredibly innovative and progressive cultural life, as well as a fantastically enthusiastic attitude to the arts, that first made me consider making L.A. a home."
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L.A. sumo wrestler and actor is a man of three worlds and three different cultures.
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Tom Mueller, VP of Propulsion Development for private spaceflight firm SpaceX, made his way through the Idaho woods to become a rocket engineer. And the results of his hard work is about to lift off.
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Born in Mexico, East L.A. College journalism student Erick Huerta considers Boyle Heights his home.
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Founder of Studio for Southern California History remembers running around Los Angeles as a child, at landmarks that are now long-gone.
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Urban planner John Arroyo has seen four generations of his family live under the same roof in East L.A.
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The 10 Freeway is indispensable to this Cal State L.A. student from San Bernardino County.
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An activist from the Philippines retains her fighting spirit in L.A.
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Los Angeles-based artist's work is defined by his upbringing in Japan as a monk at an 800-year-old Buddhist monastery.
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Founder of the popular Coolhaus truck tells us how even ice cream can be passed down the family tree.
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Weightlifter Richie Arakelian arrived in Los Angeles as a European champ, but now he was ready to set new world records.
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Writer from London is puzzled by the homogenous population of West Hollywood.
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What does it take to convince your partner to move to L.A. from another country?
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Enjoy this round-up of some of the courtships recently chronicled by Arrival Stories.
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