(NE)LA Stories: Interviews with Community Members of Los Angeles

Phase Four: Spring 2022

What is (NE)LA Stories?

(NE)LA Stories engages with community members who have lived and shaped the local cultural landscape of Los Angeles from the second half of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, with a particular focus on the distinctive community of Northeast Los Angeles.

This project is a continuing portion of a sustained effort by Occidental College (spearheaded by the Institute for the Study of Los Angeles [ISLA]; Oxy Arts; and Occidental Library, Special Collections and Archives) to document this region's rich history through personal interviews of its inhabitants and cultural contributors.

For this fourth phase of the (NE)LA Stories project, our interviews were conducted (over Zoom, of course!) by undergraduate students in Professor Jeremiah Axelrod & Debra Scacco’s “Transportation and Place” [UEP 295] course during the Spring semester of 2022.

Many of our interviews this time around focused on folks whose families and neighborhoods were displaced by freeway projects in the LA metropolitan area. These monumental and iconic works of post-war infrastructure were often utilized as tools of urban restructuring and racial and class segregation in the name of “renewal”. Those stories are beginning to be told…

Interviews

  1. Victoria Arriola and Mary Lou Solis Ruiz
  2. Kathy H. Berryman
  3. Ann Cochran
  4. Ivan A. Houston
  5. Danny Parker
  6. Dale Ann Stieber
  7. Alma Stokes






 

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