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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:
Coming from other cities, one might be surprised to learn that the freeway system in L.A. is a lot more efficient than it seems.
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A London ex-pat journalist and his wife takes many months to go through metamorphosis and finally arrive in Los Angeles.
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Michelle Lopez was born in Chinatown, Los Angeles, while her mother and father were each born in different countries.
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Jess Espanola, born and raised near poverty in the Phillipines, uses his extaordinary talents to move to Los Angeles and win an Emmy for the Simpsons.
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory's research scientist and oceanographer Bill Patzert dreamed big and landed in Los Angeles.
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Theater director Rachel Rosenthal arrives in Los Angeles at a time of incredible artistic energy emanating from places like the Ferus Gallery.
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"I was actually a cartoonist illustrating for L.A. Reader and the Weekly and the L.A Times when I first came. Did that for about a year but it was a lot of work and not a lot of money."
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"I'm from Tijuana so L.A. wasn't that foreign," songwriter and musician Ceci Bastida tells us how she came to love L.A.
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Film and television writer, director and producer Archie Gips shares his arrival story.
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UC Riverside student Claudia Carcarno tells the story of her father's arrival to Los Angeles.
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Despite widespread preconceived perceptions of the city, author and rare books dealer Michael Dawson and his family have long-term involvement with Los Angeles.
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"I've never forgotten just how much L.A. represents the quintessential American Dream. Anything is possible. You can be whatever you conceive you can be. I love that about Los Angeles."
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For this installment of Arrival Stories, we hear from playwright and acting teacher Stacey Martino and actor René Rivera.
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"My Los Angeles was filled with the duality of scary pasts and bright futures, combined with a promise of eternal sunshine," says Terry Castle, daughter of horror film maven William Castle.
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TiGeorges Laguerre, owner of TiGeorge's Chicken in Echo Park, took a road trip from Brooklyn, NY, to Los Angeles, where he's called home for 30 years.
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My cousin, Danell Hughes, and I have explored every area of the city, we're familiar with everything. I think that's one of the reasons we're bonded so tight. We have four sets of grandparents between the two of us that opened the store [Mi Vida, located on York Blvd. in Highland Park]. Our parents and their parents lived here in Los Angeles - that's how far back our family goes.
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KCET Departures asks, "What's your or your family's Los Angeles arrival story?" Today, we hear from artist and Watts House Project executive director, Edgar Arceneaux: "My grandfather, Edgar Don Young, migrated to Los Angeles in 1923, from Greensboro, Mississippi....
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"It thrills me to know that I'm part Apache, part Irish, part Ukrainian-Russian, part Mexican, and part American." Cal State L.A. student Lucas Benitez traces his family's varied history.
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KCET Departures asks, "What's your or your family's Los Angeles arrival story?" Today, we hear from musician, deejay and member of the creative collective dublab, Alejandro Cohen: "I arrived in Los Angeles in late August 1996. "Back in 1994, I...
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Conceptual artist Marjan Vayghan describes the joys and difficulties in living in two different cities at once - Tehran and Los Angeles.
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