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It's May 11th, 2026, and we're in the Octavia Lab podcast room, and we're going to be interviewing Maria Gribbell and her daughter Sylvia. So Maria, let's dive right in. Tell us about your childhood, where you were born and where you grew up.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1.32,25.56"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e I was born in Mexico City, and as a child, maybe about three years old, my parents moved to Guadalajara, Jalisco. And that's where I have recollection of where I live.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=26.44,41.36"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e And do you have any siblings?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=42.64,44.0"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e I have two brothers and two sisters, but right now I only have one that is living, uh, and one and two brothers.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=44.32,57.08"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Um, how would you describe the area where you grew up in your childhood? Where","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=58.64,62.86"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e I grew up, it was such a beautiful place. I mean, my recollections of my childhood are beautiful. There were farms. I lived among cows and chickens and everything natural. Places where we grew our vegetables and you pick them by the meter other than, you know, go to the market. We also had a business, you know. So I grew up in a business where my parents had a store and we sold everything from milk to bread to rice, beans, everything. And so I was introduced to business quite as a child. I couldn't reach the counter, so I used to put a crate, you know, so I can reach. But we all worked.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=62.86,121.13"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e And your parents were also born in Guadalajara and your grandparents came with you?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=121.89,126.37"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e My mother was born in Zacatecas, Mexico. My father was born in Yahualica, Jalisco, and my grandparents, I believe they were also from Yahualica on my father's side of the family. On my mother's side of the family they were in Mexico City, you know, after they left Zacatecas. But, you know, so it was a beautiful childhood and my education was beautiful. I went to a place where it was by Franciscan nuns. So my mother loved education when she was in Zacatecas as a child, and she got her schooling there and she became a teacher there. So education for her was a must. And I also remember that very much, you know, and I kind of, you know, when I have my daughter, I insist that she had a Catholic education too, because I felt, you know, that that was the best.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=126.41,204.59"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Wonderful. Um, what is your favorite memory of the place where you grew up living?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=205.43,211.91"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e Living having everything natural, you know? We lived in a place where it was a lot of family. All my uncles had their houses right next to one another. And so I had a lot of cousins that I grew up with. And, I was a happy child.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=212.39,234.67"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Were you in the city or were you in a rural area?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=235.27,238.62"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e It was not really rural, but at that time, you know, even to go to the center of the city, I mean, you can get there in 15 minutes or on a bicycle, you know. So it was, it was close to get to the center of the city. So it was rural in a sense that we had a lot of, you know, vegetables and everything was fresh there. Flowers. Oh milk, gosh, I wish I can taste the milk again! You know, we used to take our little jar, a jarrito, and take it and as they milk the cow, you know, you could drink that. What would I give to taste that again! It was so beautiful. Yeah. The eggs you could take them right off the chicken. So you cannot get any more fresh eggs than that!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=238.66,292.254"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e I bet that tasted good. Tell me a little bit more about the business that your parents ran. And were your cousins or extended family also a part of that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=292.3,303.2"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e Actually no, I think my parents were the only ones that had the store, you know, and my uncles, I think they had, one had like a restaurant, and also they had like a swimming pool in there where people can go and swim. And, another one was a tailor. So they all had different, one was an engineer and an architect and he built all the houses for my uncles and for us. So there were different things, you know. My father was the only one that had the business. And also I had an older aunt, sister of my dad, that also had a business but in a different side of town. She didn't live with us there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=303.6,357.98"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e What was the name of the business? Did it have a name?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=358.58,360.7"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e La Gardenia. Yes, that was the name of our store.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=360.94,366.02"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e Does it mean mom?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=366.1,367.14"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e The gardenia.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=368.3,369.029"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e That's important. Later.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=370.38,371.34"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e That is important. Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=371.38,372.78"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e That's good to know. Tell us about your school and your local school and what kind of memories you have from school.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=372.82,382.58"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e My local school, where I went to to school there, like I said, there were Franciscan nuns and they had beehives. They used to give us the honey with the wax in it. And also the school was supported by a man that had a company where they make the Mazapan, La Rosa, (Mazapan de la Rosa) which is still with us. And some of the classrooms in the back of the classroom, there were sacks of peanuts and which, you know, they were used to make the mazapan. And the the nuns will let us sit on the top of the sacks. And so that's a beautiful memory that I remember.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=382.62,444.45"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e That's wonderful. Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=444.49,445.85"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e I love that! Yes","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=445.89,446.79"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e and of course, every day we had mass and we had to line up. We wore a uniform, which was, you know, and everybody every day we have to go through inspection, you know, make sure that our uniform was clean, that it was, you know, so it was a beautiful childhood. Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=446.79,469.01"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e When did you leave Guadalajara?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=469.37,471.27"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e I left when I was, well, let's see, 11 years old.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=471.75,479.03"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=479.07,479.55"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e 11, 12. And we went to Mexico City because at that time, my mom and my dad were having kind of, you know, problems. And, so we went to Mexico City and then my older sister was married to an American and she lived here in the States. So my mother and I, she started having grandkids, so she felt it was good to come and be with the grandkids and take us away from my dad. My dad started drinking and at times violent, so that was a better choice for her. So she took us away from there and that's how we came here. And I lived in Highland Park. That's where we settled. And we lived in a house that was, the owner lived in the front and we had the little house on the side. It wasn't in the back. It was on the side. And that's where my mother and my younger brother. And, you know, my other sister decided to go to Tijuana because at the time that she came, she was already 18. So she had to get her papers by herself.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=479.59,563.14"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=564.66,565.14"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e So that was what separated her. And then in the meantime, you know, she met her husband. And so she never got together with us. But we're still very close.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=565.22,578.62"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Do you remember what year that was when you came?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=579.02,580.854"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e 1960. I was 14 years old.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=583.74,585.42"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=585.46,585.94"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S2:\u003c/strong\u003e You know, Well, no, I should say 1960. Yes, yes. Anyways, and then when we lived in Highland Park, you know, my mother, very Catholic, she would go to church every day to pray the rosary every day. And she met this lady at church that said, you know, my husband has a shop on Olvera Street, you think your daughter would like to go to work there? At the time when I lived in Highland Park, I was babysitting. I was helping my brother with his paper route that he had. And so I at that time, then I started. So I was 15 years old when I was when I went to Olvera Street to start working there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=586.34,636.72"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Wow.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=637.0,637.48"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=637.76,638.4"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e What are your earliest memories of Olvera Street?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=639.2,641.96"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e Beautiful memories. Olvera Street was, many families lived there. Well, one family for sure lived there. My mother in law had a shop, um, my mother in law's sister... What","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=643.16,661.98"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e shop was it?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=661.98,662.586"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e That was the Mexico shop, which we currently carry the legacy. Five generations.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=662.98,670.82"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Wow.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=670.86,671.18"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e My mother in law's father back in the 30s, 1930, was approached by Mrs. Sterling. Christine Sterling, that at the time, she was able to have Olvera Street buildings not be demolished. So she was the person that, you know, got that to for us.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=671.22,701.54"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e And so tell me about that. Was there a threat of demolishing Olvera Street? When did that happen?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=702.06,707.81"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e In 1930. I guess prior to 1930, you know, they, you know, I guess they wanted to demolish. And she felt no, because that was the center of a lot of communities, you know, there. Many people from many countries lived around that area. And my understanding was that when the Pobladores, actually the Franciscans and all the Spaniards came, I guess in the 1500s, you know, to build the city there. They saw water running right through the middle of there. And they felt, you know, here we got running water this is a good place to start the city. And so we are the heart of L.A. That's where, you know, back in the 1500s, I guess, you know. And so those buildings were built back in the 1500s. And she wanted to preserve them because that is the heart of LA.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=708.05,776.67"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Mmhm.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=776.95,777.304"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e And, what else can you help me? [looks toward her daughter, Sylvia]. Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=777.83,783.99"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e I mean, just from what you hear around the street. My father passed about a little under two years ago, and he was quite a historian, so we'd hear lots of stories. So definitely I would say stories passed from generation to generation. And he would start off by telling me how Christine Stirling was looking to animate Olvera Street. So she was thinking, great, I can bring in some money, I can utilize tourism, and I can animate a Mexican marketplace that is romantic, kind of what you imagine in the studios. But she had a really great idea to try to make it as authentic while still romanticize it. And she did that through asking local vendors and merchants that were Mexican American business owners to come and work at Olvera Street to help realize her vision. And my great grandfather, Alejandro Diaz Velasco, was one of them. He was an importer of Latin American goods. And so that kind of fell into her plan. Now, there are some criticisms, right, that, oh, it's kind of a fantasy representation. But also, through the families that she curated for the spot, she definitely planted a seed for multi-generational family representation, which if you look around the United States, there may be multi-generational marketplaces, but multi-generational cultural family owned businesses? Not so much. Probably a handful of them left. And on that particular site, she also saw the significance of the fact that four different eras were represented, right. We had our original Tongva that were on our lands and still are in the area.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=784.03,901.64"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=901.68,901.98"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e People don't realize that they're still among us and definitely should be present in the heart of LA. And then you have our Spanish, right, the colonization period. And you have the Spanish missions and the church across the way is actually not a mission. A lot of people like to say that, but it's not a mission. It was definitely around that time and you see that presence there on site, and then you see the pobladores that then came and settled, which again, people don't talk about. Already we're starting to see the mestizos and the Indios and mulattoes and the Negroes. We had a very rich, diverse kind of mixed history already starting out the foundation of our city. And as my mother was referring to the Zanja Madre, the mother ditch, they called it, they saw that they were utilizing, you know, structures already to carry water. So we know that Los Angeles in particular has a very rich history where it comes to our LA River.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=901.98,966.03"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=966.07,966.51"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e It was a river community. And our indigenous ancestors knew to be up higher on the city, right, otherwise it would get wiped out. We knew this long before even, I mean, later on, we have Mulholland and other people that came in and tried to, and the civil engineers and trying to manage the water in Los Angeles. But that structure or parts of it, at least in three separate parts, I believe now remain as a reminder of what the civilizations did to grow and the city continues to be built layer upon layer. And then the very last layer that she saw. So my mother was correct that a lot of these structures started to pop up and we had like different signs that other civilizations had occurred. But around the 1800s, we actually see structure that are still around today. So, some of the more memorable ones on the site that people have heard about is the Avila Adobe, which Mrs. Sterling actually lived in for some time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=966.83,1028.17"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, OK. Few","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1028.65,1028.976"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e people know that or at least don't mention it that often. We also had the Pico House, which was the first kind of structure that was kind of multi layered, if you will. He had a vision, right, and it was used for different things in different periods. Then we obviously have the Avila, so we had the Avila Adobe, oh! and then we have the oldest brick building later on the site of La Golondrina restaurant.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1029.05,1054.97"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1055.01,1055.33"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e So what's very significant about this is on Olvera Street, you start seeing multiculturalism from a multitude of immigrants coming in to build the city. So, yes, it's a Mexican marketplace as a mechanism to preserve, but we had Japanese, we had Chinese, we had the Italian Americans, we had Jewish folks. We had an Armenian gentleman that also had his wares on the street. We're finding out more and more all those that contributed to the foundations of L.A.. So, my father always in telling the the history of Olvera Street, was very clear that it was immigrants of a multitude of nations that built the heart of Los Angeles, right. So preserving the buildings was great, but inadvertently along the way, her mechanism to preserve the place also itself became a living history through the families. So various families, depending on when their family came, there are many of us that were referred to now as legacy merchants. Many of us started with our families on Olvera Street when it opened on Easter in 1930. And so, you know, you have us, but then you also have a few other waves that came early on. And that lasted for decades. We had month to month leases. It wasn't until I guess cities started to view their real estate a bit differently and also probably forgot to acknowledge what mechanisms were in place to keep the area vibrant. So between when my mother came just a few decades after it had opened, to the time that I recall, and she can fill in the blanks of what happened within our family, but in that time, Olvera Street was thriving, largely because Christine Sterling, like I said, she animated the place. So she said, okay, you can sell, you know, you can be a glassblower and you'll go here and you sell textiles, you'll go there. But she brought in artisans, right? And we were, if you will, the living history, not just the fact that we played a role, but also because we carried LA history along with us. So yes, we were there, but there was this other layer of what was happening because, you know, my mother. Oh yes, we had Eleanor Roosevelt, we had the King of Spain. We've had foreign dignitaries, everybody.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1055.45,1219.08"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Wow, tell us about that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1219.12,1220.32"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e Everybody came to Olvera Street. We had every year the people that run the Rose Bowl, we had the Queen and her court at Olvera Street. We had movie stars, all of them, at Olvera Street. Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly, I forget, although John Wayne. John Wayne and...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1220.52,1246.517"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e He dated my grandmother.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1247.15,1247.99"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e He dated...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1248.03,1248.665"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Wow. Okay. There's some other stories there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1248.87,1251.91"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e [Laughs] So you saw movie stars all the time. We saw President Kennedy there. We saw all the politicians that were. They all came to Olvera Street. 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El Paseo had the flamenco entertainment.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1270.83,1288.31"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e Well before it was El Paseo it was...","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1288.71,1290.064"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e It was Caliente where people went and danced.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1290.19,1293.591"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e And incidentally, my grandparents met there and they were dancing the tango.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1293.77,1299.85"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Awww, sweet.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1299.89,1300.651"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e And my grandfather emigrated from Chile and met my grandmother there. Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1305.69,1306.21"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e And I met my husband there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1306.81,1308.53"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Wonderful. Sweet story. Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1308.57,1310.53"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e And how did he court you? When","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1310.81,1312.35"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e I would be working there, he would wait for me to get off work, and he would always meet me with a gardenia.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1315.01,1322.01"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, sweet!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1322.21,1322.864"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e So gardenia seemed to follow me. [Laughs]. And, anyway, that's a story there. We had a fellow with a monkey there, we had the real burro in Olvera Street, you know, people taking pictures with it and la Carita. And so it was a busy place. You could not walk there, you know. It was that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1324.77,1355.43"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e So full. 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It was so full.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1356.024,1357.07"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e What did you do working there in the store?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1357.19,1359.63"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e I worked, well first I worked for the man that owned a little shop there on Olvera Street. And then he sold the business to another merchant that was there. And so I started working at the shop, which is where the Wishing well is. And I worked there, you know, going through high school. And, so, those people there, they were like my parents to me. You know, when I turned 18 years old, he took me to the bank, you have to open an account, you have to establish your credit.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1359.67,1405.55"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Good advice. So","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1405.59,1407.79"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e yes. So there were they were so instrumental in my growing. You know, my mother, on the other hand, of course, she couldn't understand all this, having a bank account or anything, you know. But, they were very instrumental in guiding me. 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And, because he was shoe shine way back when, when he was there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1436.14,1457.467"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e So people took care of each other.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1458.82,1460.26"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, yes. We were a family. The whole street.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1460.3,1463.5"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e How many merchants were there? Do you remember?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1463.54,1465.38"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, all the little stalls that we had that were all full. And Mrs. Sterling was so good, you know, and like I said, it didn't matter if a family needed a place she would [say] Okay, you're going to be here and, and sell this. You know, it was a family. Everybody was a family. I used to babysit sometimes for her name is Jeanette--back then, her name was Rosita. And so we help each other. We help each other. If I had an item and somebody's looking for something else, we knew exactly who sold what, right, and we help them out, but that was the essence. Mrs. Sterling would have parties at the Avila Adobe. Oh!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1465.46,1518.52"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell us about the parties!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1518.52,1519.675"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e For all of us. You know, at Christmas time she would have gifts for us.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1519.96,1524.28"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, nice.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1524.32,1524.84"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e She was you know, it was nice, and like I said, just to see the place was alive.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1525.08,1534.03"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1534.79,1535.47"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e It was very nice.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1535.51,1536.71"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Did she live there on site?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1536.75,1538.07"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes. At the Avila house. She lived there. She could have lived in this mansion, you know, because she was wealthy. And she did have a home and my husband at times talks about horses, I guess she had horses, too. And he would go and they'd ride horses at her property.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1540.07,1558.71"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Where was her property?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1559.11,1560.35"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e By Chavez Ravine. [laughs] Okay,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1560.39,1562.75"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e interesting. That's a whole 'nother story.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1563.87,1566.07"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, yes. So anyway, so that's what I remember.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1567.27,1571.71"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e And how long was she there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1571.75,1573.11"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e She passed, I guess in the 80s.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1573.99,1576.15"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1576.19,1576.67"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e I don't know exactly. In 83, 86. Around that time. She was a lovely lady to me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1576.71,1585.61"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e I can tell.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1586.57,1587.85"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e And I'm sure she was to many people.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1587.89,1590.13"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e How did you get to Olvera Street? You were living in Highland Park.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1590.53,1593.73"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e I took the bus. Okay. I took the bus after, you know, school many times. Like I said, I would go to the library and do my homework. Sometimes I would meet my mother there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1593.93,1606.65"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Nice.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1606.89,1607.33"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e And then we'd go to Thrifty's or someplace and we would take the bus home. Then afterwards, when I started working, I would take the bus to go to work and I would be to work by four. And at that time I worked from 4 to 11, you know, and then they would take me home.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1607.37,1626.01"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e That's a full day.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1626.85,1627.97"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1628.01,1628.45"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Studying and then working at Olvera Street. And","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1628.73,1631.09"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e many times I would get home and I still have to do some more homework. And there was a fellow that worked at one of the shops for his grandfather, and he was very smart and he always tutored me, you know.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1631.09,1644.79"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Nice.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1644.83,1645.23"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e So like I said, we were family. Everybody helped one another, you know.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1645.27,1650.87"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e That's wonderful.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1652.23,1653.23"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah. I think, that's the other thing that's interesting about Olvera Street is, in addition to these families, there were a lot of educated and artistic folk that always because she brought in the craftsmen and she brought in thinkers of the time. So there were actually dons from Berkeley and other universities that lived there and tutored a lot of the merchant children.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1653.27,1678.59"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, that's interesting.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1678.63,1679.39"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e My husband and my sister in law were tutored by a lot of these students.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1679.43,1683.279"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, that's fascinating.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1686.03,1687.07"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e And they were extras. So LA being LA, and Hollywood being so, you know, present, especially there, because of what she had created, there was a lot of filming on the street all the way up until the 80s, I guess. We were all in True Confessions with Robert Duvall and Robert De Niro. And there's still this scene where my cousin Donna is very, you know, prevalent, she's like smack center of the scene. But, we were used as extras to create an authentic Mexican marketplace. And because of that, children were tutored on set. Later on, they had more formalized versions of that, right, in order to, I mean, there were a lot more rules around filming, kids being out of school. But back in the day, you know, a lot of people brought their kids to work because they were family run businesses. So they were family, figuratively and literally. You're talking a few generations already in. So now it's not just the great grandparents that ran the shops. Now it's the sisters own two different shops and the cousins, like now I'm fourth generation and my cousin that's also fourth generation runs his shop. So we're this generation.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1687.11,1757.94"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Wow. That's amazing.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1758.22,1759.3"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e So you you have several families still around. But something did change. So Mrs. Sterling died in 1963.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1759.5,1766.8"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1766.84,1767.28"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e And the structure of how that came about and who was going to govern the site became, you know, one of these mechanisms that, quite frankly, the very thing that she tried to preserve is now, with the City back in control, it's missing some of what preserved it, because now you're talking about more bureaucratic systems and systems that, quite frankly, are not designed to preserve areas. They're meant to run a city, but not necessarily. So even though we have a preservation mission, things started changing in how business was done. So we are part of El Pueblo.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1767.64,1803.52"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1803.88,1804.28"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e Which is the smallest city department.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1804.32,1807.636"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1808.12,1808.48"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e In the city, right. And so it has its structure. So it's a state historic park, it is acknowledged as that. But eventually, I guess the City is managing a state historic park. And within that we had Department of Recreation and Parks. And so they tried it, but it's not quite a Rec and Park the way other places are Rec and Park. And then they created its own thing, right? So it's El Pueblo, and it's a 44 acre property of which 22 acres is like the Olvera Street, Avila, Pico, like kind of that main core area that people think of, right? But it includes parks, it includes other areas surrounding it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1808.52,1857.31"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e So it's much larger than people think.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1857.35,1859.03"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e It's much larger than they realize. And depending on who's in office, or who was assigned as the manager of El Pueblo, you see different shifts on the Street. And then you also have, you know, management of cities across the nation shifting as well. And in the 80s, we start seeing large cities like, say, New York, Chicago, looking at their properties and thinking, how can we manage our assets, our properties? And so there was some discussion again, you know, how do you manage an urban center and preserve at the same time? So the thing with Olvera Street, and especially being a state historic park, is that the mission of El Pueblo is actually one of preservation. It's not one of tourism, right. It's not one of commercial rental space, even though those might be mechanisms to preserve, the mission is to preserve. And later on, you see history, and also in the documentation in the charter, right. It's mentioned living history. They mention, you know, the merchant. We're the ones that animate it. They talk about who brings, you know, this place to life. Basically, I'm paraphrasing, but it is the families, right, with their history and their culture. And so traditionally we have we still maintain free public cultural celebrations and events for the city, for all Angelenos. So we started seeing a progressive, I guess, manifestation of them across the city, right? You can have other mercados, you know, this place LA is rich with Latino culture.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1859.07,1972.51"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/132","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1972.55,1972.83"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/133","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e And there are many mercados, but what made us distinct were the artisans, the families, the Mexican marketplace, the location, the buildings, specific art. So when Olvera Street opened, Christine Sterling had heard about a world renowned muralist, and she invited Siqueiros, she heard America Tropical and she probably thought they were toucans. And you know, she probably heard marimba playing in the background! But come to find out, he had a story to tell about, you know, I don't know, capitalism, colonialism, the place of workers and whatnot. So he had a lot of narratives running, right?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=1972.87,2016.983"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/134","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Did you meet him?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2017.46,2018.34"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/135","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e I did not meet him. I met the other artist.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2019.34,2023.02"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/136","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Mmhm.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2023.22,2023.574"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/137","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, you're talking about Politi. So definitely that was there. And she literally and figuratively whitewashed the mural before opening because she was hoping that this would kick off the opening. And instead, it was something, Oh, no, we don't want this!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2024.06,2041.254"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, wow.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2041.58,2042.26"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e But inadvertently, like many things that Mrs. Sterling did, is she preserved it. He had been learning a particular type of painting technique that he employed with America Tropical. And because of it, it was more more vulnerable to the elements, right? So by whitewashing it, she actually preserved it. Thank goodness. And then fast forward years later, you have, some of our Commissioners that were part of it. We have Carol Jax Haucus, she goes by Haucus, that was on our Commission and she very much was a champion of having this particular artwork preserved or restored, more importantly. And because it was fragile, you know, the Getty was the one that helped us come in and and create the interpretive center. And now when you go there, you'll see this kind of fan-looking arch that is over and you have to take an elevator up to view it from an observation deck. So it's protected as much as it can be. And hopefully we have it for quite some time. But it will take consistent effort and preservation and understanding of the the delicate ecosystem we have. So we physically have a delicate ecosystem, but we also have a very delicate urban system that is kind of coexisting. So, you know, as I was mentioning something that we experienced firsthand and my dad participated at some point. He was a labor organizer for many years. So my parents went off and, you know, after they were in their youth, and I guess just before they had me, they opened up a little shop again, shop owners in Highland Park, until I started kind of running and exploring Highland Park, you know, going to Fosselman's, sitting at the counter running a tab. [Laughter]. You know, my mother said, maybe I need a more stable job that doesn't have my child out there running the streets. But, um, you know, very young age. So just before preschool. So they went to work for the phone company. He became a labor organizer. Later on, that comes into play because the cities wanted to, I guess, more formalize their system and their assets. And they were looking to create more structure around the businesses on Olvera Street. And simultaneously, through this process, the merchants reached out to the electorate in LA and they voted for Charter Amendment H.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2042.62,2196.53"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e When was that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2196.89,2198.17"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/141","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e When was charter? That was like the 80s, 90s, I would say around the 90s that occurred. And, I really should know that date better! But yeah, it was between the 80s and 90s. And I only say the 90s because I remember specifically at that point, my grandmother had passed and my parents then inherited the store, and they took just slightly early retirement and poured their retirement into four shops. We had one that we inherited. They purchased three more.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2198.53,2226.917"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/142","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, wow. Which what were the other shops?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2227.09,2229.337"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e Where the security offices, and then the booth in the center across from the fountain and, the one right behind the fountain--that was so we had four.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2229.49,2244.03"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/144","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e And when was that where you had all four?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2244.27,2246.544"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/145","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e Uh, let's see, in 92. Yes. We got the four shops, 98. Something like that. First we bought one and then the other two.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2248.23,2261.11"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/146","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e We started in 92, which, that is when Charter Amendment H passed.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2261.39,2265.43"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/147","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2265.47,2265.83"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/148","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e It was 1992 when they first bought the first store. So it became very like front and center in our family.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2265.87,2271.43"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/149","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2271.47,2271.83"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/150","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e That this negotiations were taking place and we had a merchants association and they were trying to negotiate these leases and they ended up having to get representation and it was just very touch and go, because a lot of what made Olvera Street and these families successful, and why they had started investing their retirement into these stores, was because she always kept a low overhead so that they could keep up with selling authentic Mexican products at a reasonable rate so that they would want to stay. The idea was to not just preserve the place, but the families who had animated... Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2271.87,2316.22"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/151","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e And carried on the cultural traditions.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2316.26,2318.46"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e To make it sustainable.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2318.5,2319.66"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/153","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e She was totally focused on sustainability, right? And she had them in mind. In addition, the artisans. You can't have like arts that are very much like making pottery or whatnot and have high overhead, right? You can't do that. But the city had a study done, the Riggs and Riggs study, and the merchants also had one done, and they were putting us into the same zip code and looking at commercial lease structures. And so our little Puesto that we have now would have been $350 for rent, for overhead, and now it's $1,350.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2319.98,2361.621"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/154","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, that's significant.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2362.88,2364.72"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/155","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e They allowed us to tier up. So you know, we had four stores so some we brought up to top and the others we had to, you know, take some time to do it. But what that ended up doing is some of our long established families that had larger shops, they couldn't maintain it. The first thing they and others started to do was downsize.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2364.76,2385.12"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/156","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Mmhm.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2385.24,2385.594"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/157","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e So you start seeing fewer of those legacy merchants present, right?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2386.04,2391.4"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/158","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2391.44,2391.92"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/159","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e But the markers of those families are still there. So there were signs where Bernal used to have their shop, and everybody knew they had wonderful leather. They had Spanish things, you could find good Spanish stuff there because, you know, we were all representative of different eras of life on Olvera Street. We also had the Sosa family, that was also there, and a lot of pottery and art.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2391.96,2415.895"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/160","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Did they make the pottery or did they bring it from Mexico?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2417.75,2420.43"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/161","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e They actually, at one point they had potters there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2420.47,2423.55"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/162","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Mhmh. 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We were the real site!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2469.97,2471.884"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/169","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2471.89,2472.09"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/170","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e You know, it wasn't just reenactment. Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2472.13,2474.204"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/171","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e And that's what we want to preserve, right? So it's like, it doesn't fit anywhere because the site itself is unique and the mission is unique. And so one would then start to question...but it ended up passing. But with it, a lot of things changed. So how filming took place, who ran the events? Now the City. A lot of our streams of income that had previously existed cease to exist. Then you increase the rent, you see the families disappear, and you also start seeing something that has actually been researched. And I've mentioned it in a letter to the City about this. But when the price is too great, the product becomes more homogeneous. Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2475.17,2526.618"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/172","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e Because you have to sell what sells to survive. You see less of the diversity of product, and you'll hear that from the customers. Now all the shops kind of look the same. 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It takes more effort. It takes more money.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2546.12,2550.04"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/176","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e It's a lot and high overhead. So we have seen some successful models in the neighborhood or in LA in general. We have Mercado La Paloma, which specifically is thriving, but some of their mission is actually to keep the families there several generations. 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I took my mother for a treat, I wanted to inspire her because lately we've had struggles with the City, with the World Cup and the Olympics coming.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2577.4,2591.201"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/179","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2591.26,2591.667"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/180","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e And we've wanted, we were optimistic that we would have management that would help preserve us. But it also became apparent had that been the intention, we would have received that management prior to announcement of these world events. So clean it up, make it look good--but that's not preservation. And we also see the city bringing in events that competes with us. So not only is the overhead too high, are we losing some of that, we're losing the merchants. I mean we had several turn in their shops within the last few months. We've had to turn in--so now we're down to one.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2592.02,2633.46"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/181","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2633.5,2633.9"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/182","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, wow. So Mercado la Paloma, what's the model for that? How is that being run?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2634.66,2640.28"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/183","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e Well it's, I mean, as far as I can tell, and the little bit that I have learned because I've been looking at it as maybe another place in the community that could support us and we could support them.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2640.42,2653.84"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/184","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2653.88,2654.28"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/185","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e I think there's plenty. We just do, we do a little bit of what they do. They don't do some of what we do, the historic preservation part. But there's plenty to be discovered in LA. And there's a lot. But one thing they do is they keep it local. So people have offered to take them and offer them space elsewhere. Their intention was to keep it near the communities where these vendors and artists and, and restaurants, restaurateurs work and live.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2654.32,2683.36"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/186","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Mhm.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2683.48,2684.0"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/187","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e And that's what many of us were.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2684.24,2685.8"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/188","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2685.84,2686.36"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/189","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e Right? So in that regard, they're not looking to break that model. They're looking to maintain it. And you're able to maintain it there if the cost is kept such that everybody makes it. They're not making money hand over fist. Like, you know, there used to be a narrative in the City, and also one that started getting parroted to other Angelenos, that we're not paying our fair share. What they don't realize is we pay for the common area. We also pay a special tax for doing business on City property. We don't have Wi-Fi on our area. We can't pay for our rent using credit cards because City does not have that system set up for us. So their practices are better preserved than our actual site! But it makes it difficult. Oh, parking I forgot parking! Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2686.4,2737.43"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/190","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e That's also a huge issue.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2737.43,2738.75"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/191","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes. So an emergency response to homelessness that the City felt, right? Especially I mean, we all lived through a pandemic and we had provisions, luckily within our contract to help with hardship deductions and other things of that nature. They anticipated that, our attorneys and the person that did our study, our commercial study, reflected back to them, this is not sustainable: Back to the word sustainable.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2738.95,2766.97"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/192","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Mhm.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2767.05,2767.45"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/193","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e And what they predicted played out. And that's what we're living right now. Who could have foreseen a world pandemic?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2767.57,2775.93"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/194","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2776.09,2776.57"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/195","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e Who could have foreseen that, right? Then you add to it our our fires, entire communities from the Palisades to the Foothills were impacted and the businesses in between, right? And then on top of it, then we have our ICE raids that materially, physically and culturally impacts the community that we live in, work in and serve. And then we had the protests that were on the heels of that. For years the City, you know, kind of where we're located has been an area activated when there are protests and when people come together, because it's so close to City Hall.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2776.61,2815.17"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/196","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Mhm.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2815.21,2815.69"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/197","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e And unfortunately, there were also families--because we're a family oriented location-- tourists, school children. And we saw many of them not feel safe. Even the perception of it not being safe, right? Because of what was happening across the nation, people couldn't determine if even by witnessing or being a bystander, you were going to somehow get caught up in it. And then you add to it our unfortunately, you know, our unhoused community. So the City gave one of our lots that was meant to maintain the El Pueblo budget--and when I say that, I mean, yes, maybe some marketing for us, but definitely the folks that sit in the offices that's who it maintains. It doesn't maintain us! And so they gave up one of the City lots. And this is where policy impacts our survival and sustainability, is that that lot made $170,000 a year and they gave it up. And there was no community impact report, there was no checking in--well, the stakeholders, we spoke up--but they had already removed the Merchant Advisory Committee, which was the branch that was actually in the Charter. And so it's statutory and they did not maintain it. So any provision that materially has impacted us, we have not had a say in. And when we try to speak up at Council, Commission or merchant meetings, it's not the same. It's not in an advisory role. So even against our wishes, they put a transitional housing unit on the site of one of our lots. And what that did is it created a hub. So we've always had Skid Row down the way, but now it's creating a hub. And there are other projects to address our unhoused neighbors in the community. So it's creating this kind of network, if you will. And so, yes, it's a public place, but when there are certain things like folks that can become violent, unfortunately, because they have mental health needs or, you know, they're not caring for the site or there's more waste on the site. We're paying to do that to, to maintain the site. But nothing was being given to us to maintain it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2815.73,2959.96"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/198","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e So who's become the advocate or the voice for Olvera Street in light of all of these issues?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2960.0,2969.16"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/199","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e We don't really have one dedicated person we've met with, and I have to give credit. Jacqueline Hamilton, who is our Deputy Mayor, she's come and listened to the merchants. We've also had our CD 14 rep Ysabel Jurado come listen to us. There are many folks running for Mayor right now.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2970.08,2991.4"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/200","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2991.44,2991.72"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/201","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e Who are willing to meet with us and listen to us, but nobody has really stood out as an advocate. So we've been advocating for ourselves.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2991.76,2999.47"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/202","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2999.51,2999.95"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/203","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e And that's where we're at now, is that we are in the process of forming a Conservancy. And we have lots of other stakeholders in the community, arts historians, eco friendly folks, I've reached out to, you know, prominent people that have been, and I say prominent only because they're well respected friends of the LA River, people that have been involved in the actual location. And I'm fascinated as an eco therapist by urban centers that are also embracing the ecology of the place that also needs to be preserved.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=3000.27,3037.39"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/204","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=3037.43,3037.75"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/205","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e So that's where we've ended. This is where we're at now. And we're asking Angelenos again for support to maintain and preserve this site. But it looks like in this case, we're going to have to be our own advocates.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=3037.79,3051.89"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/206","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, we need a historian too in there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=3051.93,3055.05"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/207","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e We've been begging, because we're a state historic park, and we haven't actively had one since 2013. So in addition to the advisory committee, we have not had a historian. 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And so if a historian would have been there... That's","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=3072.93,3084.49"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/210","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e heartbreaking.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=3084.49,3085.29"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/211","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah. She would have had a word to say about that. Now they want to remove signs. And I said N'uh uh, so yes: We desperately need a historian there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=3085.33,3099.29"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/212","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e And we were told recently at a merchant meeting, this is City property. We can rent to whomever we want.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=3099.49,3105.89"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/213","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes. So it's we're in a very difficult period.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=3106.41,3110.0"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/214","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e That's very precarious.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=3110.8,3112.08"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/215","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=3112.12,3112.44"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/216","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAni Boyadjian:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes. Well, thank you. Maria, I mean, I'd love to hear more of Olvera Street. I think we're going to continue this conversation with Sylvia, but is there anything else you'd like to add? What are your hopes and dreams for Olvera Street from your perspective, as somebody who's been there for so long?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=3112.56,3134.394"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/transcript/94607/annotation/217","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMaria Gribbell:\u003c/strong\u003e My hopes and dreams that I can see it live again. That's my hopes and dreams. 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Well, thank you so much for your time today. 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The sustainability of the marketplace is threatened by higher overhead and changing city policies.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2196.0,2417.0"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/index/93597/annotation/248","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Artisans, City Ordinances, and Unique Preservation Model","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2417.0,2634.0"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/index/93597/annotation/249","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The discussion focuses on the role of artisans on Olvera Street, the impact of city ordinances on traditional crafts, and comparisons to other historic sites like Colonial Williamsburg. Maria and Sylvia emphasize the authenticity of Olvera Street as a real, living history site, not just a reenactment, and the challenges posed by city regulations that do not fit the unique preservation model.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2417.0,2634.0"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/index/93597/annotation/250","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Mercado La Paloma and Sustainable Community Models","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2634.0,2737.0"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/index/93597/annotation/251","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sylvia introduces Mercado La Paloma as an example of a sustainable community model that keeps overhead low and supports local families. She discusses the importance of maintaining local connections, the challenges faced by Olvera Street merchants, and the need for intentional preservation of cultural and historic sites. The chapter highlights the differences in management practices and the impact on merchant survival.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2634.0,2737.0"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/index/93597/annotation/252","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Impact of City Policies, Pandemic, and Homelessness","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2737.0,2960.0"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/index/93597/annotation/253","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The conversation turns to recent challenges affecting Olvera Street, including the loss of parking revenue due to city policies, the impact of the pandemic, fires, protests, and homelessness. Sylvia explains how these factors have created a precarious situation for merchants, with increased costs, decreased safety, and lack of support from the city. The chapter underscores the material and cultural impacts on the community.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2737.0,2960.0"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/index/93597/annotation/254","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Advocacy, Conservancy, and Hopes for the Future","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2960.0,3169.856"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747/index/93597/annotation/255","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sylvia and Maria discuss the lack of a dedicated advocate for Olvera Street, their efforts to form a conservancy, and the involvement of community stakeholders. They emphasize the need for a historian and advisory committee to guide preservation decisions. Maria expresses her hopes and dreams for Olvera Street to thrive again and reach its hundredth anniversary, reflecting the deep emotional connection and desire for revitalization.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2367/collection_resources/173632/file/312747#t=2960.0,3169.856"}]}]}]}