{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json","id":"https://veniceheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/iiif/9882j69t40/manifest","type":"Manifest","label":{"en":["Emily Winters, 5/23/23"]},"logo":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/497/original/VHM_Aviary_banner.png?1768074560","metadata":[{"label":{"en":["Description"]},"value":{"en":["Emily Winters is a Venice-based muralist, activist, and author."]}},{"label":{"en":["Language"]},"value":{"en":["English"]}},{"label":{"en":["Preferred Citation"]},"value":{"en":["Name of interviewee, date; The Venice Heritage Museum Oral Histories Project; Venice Heritage Museum, Los Angeles, CA."]}},{"label":{"en":["Publisher"]},"value":{"en":["Venice Heritage Museum"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["Copyright © 2024 Venice Heritage Museum"]}},{"label":{"en":["Format"]},"value":{"en":["MP4"]}},{"label":{"en":["Identifier"]},"value":{"en":["OH_002"]}},{"label":{"en":["Keyword"]},"value":{"en":["Venice Beach"]}},{"label":{"en":["Access Ss"]},"value":{"en":["access_public"]}}],"summary":{"en":["Emily Winters is a Venice-based muralist, activist, and author."]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["Copyright © 2024 Venice Heritage Museum"]}},"provider":[{"id":"https://veniceheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/aboutus","type":"Agent","label":{"en":["Venice Heritage Museum"]},"homepage":[{"id":"https://veniceheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/","type":"Text","label":{"en":["Venice Heritage Museum"]},"format":"text/html"}],"logo":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/497/original/VHM_Aviary_banner.png?1768074560","type":"Image"}]}],"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/243/175/small/EmilyWinters.mp4_1719158000.jpg?1719158004","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://veniceheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2416/collection_resources/129342/file/243175","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 1 - Emily_Winters.mp4"]},"duration":872.49067,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/243/175/small/EmilyWinters.mp4_1719158000.jpg?1719158004","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://veniceheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2416/collection_resources/129342/file/243175/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://veniceheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2416/collection_resources/129342/file/243175/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-veniceheritagemuseum.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/243/175/original/Emily_Winters.mp4?1719194807","type":"Video","format":"video/mp4","duration":872.49067,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://veniceheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2416/collection_resources/129342/file/243175","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[{"id":"https://veniceheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2416/collection_resources/129342/file/243175/transcript/68281","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Emily Winters Transcript  [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://veniceheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2416/collection_resources/129342/file/243175/transcript/68281/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"00:00:08:15 - 00:00:11:14\nI, was born,\n\n00:00:11:14 - 00:00:14:05\nin Quincy, Illinois.\n\n00:00:14:05 - 00:00:15:23\n in 1936.\n\n00:00:15:23 - 00:00:20:03\nI heard about Venice from my then, husband\n\n00:00:20:03 - 00:00:23:23\nand, he had, he had been in Venice\n\n00:00:23:23 - 00:00:28:00\nthat he had been in the Navy\rand he had been stationed in San Diego.\n\n00:00:28:00 - 00:00:30:21\nAnd he really liked California.\n\n00:00:30:21 - 00:00:33:09\nAnd so,\n\n00:00:33:09 - 00:00:37:05\nafter we were married, we,\n\n00:00:37:05 - 00:00:39:17\npartnered with another couple\n\n00:00:39:17 - 00:00:42:12\nto move to California, to San Francisco.\n\n00:00:42:12 - 00:00:45:01\nThis was 1963.\n\n00:00:45:01 - 00:00:49:00\nAnd, he was, and I was\rpregnant then, with our first child.\n\n00:00:49:00 - 00:00:52:02\nSo he was unable to find work.\n\n00:00:52:02 - 00:00:55:09\n\rSo he decided to go,\rwe decided to go\n\n00:00:55:10 - 00:00:59:22\nto Venice because\rhe had friends here.\n\n00:00:59:22 - 00:01:02:23\nSo we stayed with them\runtil he established himself.\n\n00:01:02:23 - 00:01:05:04\nAnd, uhmmm...\n\n00:01:05:04 - 00:01:08:23\nAnd then we, I,\rI,really felt it was,\n\n00:01:08:23 - 00:01:10:14\nlike a gold mine because\n\n00:01:10:14 - 00:01:17:03\nbecause I, I, felt good\rin the feeling of community.\n\n00:01:17:03 - 00:01:21:10\nThere’s many diversities here,\n\n00:01:21:10 - 00:01:26:08\nwhich I, as, as time\rprogressed, I found out about.\n\n00:01:26:08 - 00:01:30:17\nBut, uhmmm...\ras the years went on\n\n00:01:30:17 - 00:01:33:13\nand the canals\rbecame a very central place\n\n00:01:33:13 - 00:01:35:19\nof activism and artists.\n\n00:01:35:19 - 00:01:37:12\nI was very new to California\n\n00:01:37:12 - 00:01:40:13\n\rand very new to Southern California.\n\n00:01:40:13 - 00:01:43:13\nI was very struck by...\n\n00:01:43:14 - 00:01:45:18\nthe fact that there\rwas a blue sky every day.\n\n00:01:45:18 - 00:01:48:04\nWe were in the\rmiddle of a heat wave,\n\n00:01:48:04 - 00:01:50:18\n\rSanta Ana heat wave.\n\n00:01:50:18 - 00:01:54:20\nAnd the temperature here got 105.\n\n00:01:54:20 - 00:01:57:23\nAnd, I was very impressed\n\n00:01:57:23 - 00:01:59:13\nthat the heat didn't\rbother me as much \n\n00:01:59:13 - 00:02:02:22\nas it did in humid Illinois.\n\n00:02:02:22 - 00:02:04:15\nI used to walk to the ocean\n\n00:02:04:15 - 00:02:06:23\nto run my children, my babies.\n\n00:02:06:23 - 00:02:08:17\nI would walk them to the ocean.\n\n00:02:08:17 - 00:02:11:19\nWe lived just a few blocks away.\n\n00:02:11:19 - 00:02:15:21\nAnd, uhmmm...\rthere is a booth there.\n\n00:02:15:21 - 00:02:18:13\nBonita was the fish they\rwere catching off the pier\n\n00:02:18:13 - 00:02:20:13\non Washington Street.\n\n00:02:20:13 - 00:02:23:15\nAnd so people would catch \rBonita and they’d take it to\n\n00:02:23:15 - 00:02:24:13\nthey'd take it to this little fish stand\rand the guy\n\n00:02:24:13 - 00:02:26:15\nto this little fish\rstand and the guy\n\n00:02:26:15 - 00:02:29:15\nwould, would give you,\n\n00:02:29:15 - 00:02:32:07\nsmoked Bonita exchange for the fresh.\n\n00:02:32:17 - 00:02:36:11\nSo I was impressed\rwith that kind of thing.\n\n00:02:38:05 - 00:02:39:11\nAnd things like that.\n\n00:02:39:11 - 00:02:41:09\nWell, people were very friendly.\n\n00:02:41:09 - 00:02:43:04\nOkay.\n\n00:02:43:04 - 00:02:46:20\nAnd, it was a,\rit was a very poor community.\n\n00:02:46:20 - 00:02:50:00\nWe had a lot of empty lots.\n\n00:02:50:00 - 00:02:54:16\nAnd, after a few years, as more,\n\n00:02:54:16 - 00:02:56:14\n\rthere were more\rartists that moved in\n\n00:02:56:14 - 00:03:00:23\nand more activist type people\rbecause it was low rent.\n\n00:03:00:23 - 00:03:02:09\nSo you started to talk about that.\n\n00:03:02:09 - 00:03:04:20\nOne of the things that really\rmade you feel comfortable\n\n00:03:04:20 - 00:03:07:08\nwhen you first arrived in Venice\rwas the feeling of community.\n\n00:03:07:08 - 00:03:11:22\nYeah. The people we \rstayed with lived in a,\n\n00:03:11:22 - 00:03:14:11\nwhat they call a, I think\rwe used to call a townhouse\n\n00:03:14:11 - 00:03:19:03\nwhere you had two floors.\rAnd there are four of them.\n\n00:03:19:03 - 00:03:23:04\nAnd, next door to them\rwas this Scottish family.\n\n00:03:23:04 - 00:03:27:05\nAnd the son used\rto practice his bagpipes.\n\n00:03:27:05 - 00:03:28:23\nAnd he'd go over to the Marina\n\n00:03:28:23 - 00:03:34:21\nwhen it was a prairie and\rpractice his bagpipes over there.\n\n00:03:34:21 - 00:03:36:17\nAnd I just loved that.\n\n00:03:36:17 - 00:03:39:02\nAnd then they had a, uhmmm...\n\n00:03:39:02 - 00:03:43:04\nAnd they had baby showers\rfor the people having babies.\n\n00:03:43:04 - 00:03:45:01\nThe men were included,\n\n00:03:45:01 - 00:03:47:05\n\rand they served alcohol.\n\n00:03:47:05 - 00:03:49:23\nI was astounded by that.\n\n00:03:49:23 - 00:03:52:13\nBecause nobody ever\rdid that in Quincy.\n\n00:03:52:13 - 00:03:54:20\nAnd at that time,\n\n00:03:54:20 - 00:03:58:13\nthe gentrification was just beginning.\n\n00:03:58:13 - 00:04:00:06\nAnd we were all feeling it.\n\n00:04:00:06 - 00:04:01:14\nThe rents were going up,\n\n00:04:01:14 - 00:04:05:11\n\ryou know, and people\rwere being, evicted.\n\n00:04:05:11 - 00:04:07:09\nAnd then they had\rno place to go.\n\n00:04:07:09 - 00:04:08:09\nThey had to leave Venice.\n\n00:04:08:09 - 00:04:11:06\nAnd that kind of thing started\n\n00:04:11:06 - 00:04:13:18\nin the late ‘60s, early ’70s.\n\n00:04:13:18 - 00:04:16:01\nThat's where I got my political education.\n\n00:04:16:01 - 00:04:19:22\nI was living on Cabrillo,\n\n00:04:19:22 - 00:04:23:13\nand, this is before I lived in the canals.\n\n00:04:23:13 - 00:04:25:06\nAnd we had a house there.\n\n00:04:25:06 - 00:04:26:10\nWe rented a house.\n\n00:04:26:10 - 00:04:29:00\n\rAnd I met my neighbors\rwho were activists.\n\n00:04:29:00 - 00:04:31:23\nI'd never, I'd never been...\rI always hated politics.\n\n00:04:31:23 - 00:04:36:18\nMy parents were always, had to listen\rto all their news programs during dinner.\n\n00:04:36:18 - 00:04:38:08\nAnd I just blocked out politics.\n\n00:04:38:08 - 00:04:39:23\nI didn’t want anything\rto do with it.\n\n00:04:39:23 - 00:04:42:02\nWell, I got my political education.\n\n00:04:42:02 - 00:04:43:07\nThere was this group\n\n00:04:43:07 - 00:04:45:07\n\rto fight the gentrification\n\n00:04:45:07 - 00:04:48:07\nof the canals.\n\n00:04:48:07 - 00:04:50:05\nAnd, apparently there was a group\n\n00:04:50:05 - 00:04:52:00\ncalled the Women's,\n\n00:04:52:00 - 00:04:53:19\n\ruhmm... Venice...\n\n00:04:53:19 - 00:04:58:20\n\rVenice and Marina Women’s\rChamber of Commerce. \n\n00:04:58:20 - 00:05:00:01\nAbout three of them.\n\n00:05:00:01 - 00:05:01:18\nAnd their, a couple of husbands.\n\n00:05:01:18 - 00:05:04:12\nAnd they wanted to gentrify the canals\n\n00:05:04:12 - 00:05:07:10\nand make it into a fenced community.\n\n00:05:07:10 - 00:05:10:08\nGated, gated community.\n\n00:05:10:08 - 00:05:13:03\nSo we fought that.\n\n00:05:13:03 - 00:05:16:17\nAnd I learned how\rto fight City Hall\n\n00:05:16:17 - 00:05:17:07\nthrough this.\n\n00:05:17:07 - 00:05:19:01\nMy neighbor,\rwho was very good at it,\n\n00:05:19:01 - 00:05:20:18\nhe'd done it in New York\n\n00:05:20:18 - 00:05:23:10\n\rin a small town\raround New York.\n\n00:05:23:10 - 00:05:25:01\nSo, uhmmm...\n\n00:05:25:01 - 00:05:26:13\nI was quite impressed with all that.\n\n00:05:26:13 - 00:05:28:16\nWe got very involved with that.\n\n00:05:28:16 - 00:05:29:22\nAnd we were really feeling\rthe crunch of this gentrification.\n\n00:05:29:22 - 00:05:32:17\nAnd we were really feeling\rthe crunch of this gentrification.\n\n00:05:32:17 - 00:05:35:04\nBut we won.\n\n00:05:35:04 - 00:05:37:21\nBecause we made it too expensive\n\n00:05:37:21 - 00:05:39:15\nby delaying it.\n\n00:05:39:15 - 00:05:43:06\nAnd, uhmmm...\n\n00:05:43:06 - 00:05:47:04\nAnd also because it's, it's public land.\n\n00:05:47:04 - 00:05:49:04\nIt isn't owned owned by anybody.\n\n00:05:49:04 - 00:05:51:17\nThey cannot turn it\rinto a private community.\n\n00:05:51:17 - 00:05:55:03\nSo they can't gate it off.\n\n00:05:55:03 - 00:05:57:19\nAnd that was our forte.\n\n00:05:57:19 - 00:06:01:12\nSo then we started canal festivals\rand there were seven.\n\n00:06:01:12 - 00:06:05:23\nIt was a one day event.\n\n00:06:05:23 - 00:06:08:06\nGenerally on a Sunday.\n\n00:06:08:06 - 00:06:11:19\nAnd everybody...\n\n00:06:11:19 - 00:06:15:13\nif they could, they would,\rthey would have food for everybody.\n\n00:06:15:13 - 00:06:18:07\nThere was no money exchanged anywhere.\n\n00:06:18:07 - 00:06:22:14\nThey'd make usually hotdogs and beans\rand maybe take potato salad\n\n00:06:22:14 - 00:06:24:00\nor something like that.\n\n00:06:24:00 - 00:06:27:10\nAnd, uh, we'd walk around\rand see each other's yards.\n\n00:06:27:10 - 00:06:32:04\nI did some face painting\rand, uhmmm...\n\n00:06:32:04 - 00:06:34:12\nWell, you know, it was, it was\n\n00:06:34:12 - 00:06:39:14\njust a lot of camaraderie and everybody,\reverybody was just contributing to it.\n\n00:06:39:14 - 00:06:43:17\nThere's an old barge on the canals\rthat people used to unhook.\n\n00:06:43:17 - 00:06:45:07\nThe, the city used it.\n\n00:06:45:07 - 00:06:49:13\nThey had this old Indian guy\rwho was taking this, like a pitchfork\n\n00:06:49:13 - 00:06:53:07\nand getting the algae out of the canals.\n\n00:06:53:07 - 00:06:56:10\nAnd so we'd use that\rsometimes on the weekends.\n\n00:06:56:10 - 00:06:59:05\nAnd so the barge was going\rby, people were on the barge\n\n00:06:59:05 - 00:07:02:22\nplaying music,\rand it was all very, very fun.\n\n00:07:02:22 - 00:07:06:18\nEverybody in LA heard about it,\rand it got to be where\n\n00:07:06:18 - 00:07:11:07\nthen people started selling things\rand it got very, very crowded.\n\n00:07:11:07 - 00:07:14:00\nAnd then we started, \rthe police could not get in\n\n00:07:14:00 - 00:07:16:08\nthe Fire Department couldn’t get in.\n\n00:07:16:08 - 00:07:18:08\nbecause there was\rjust all these people.\n\n00:07:18:08 - 00:07:24:04\nAnd so, the violence just got so bad\rthat there was a knifing.\n\n00:07:24:04 - 00:07:28:09\nAnd so we felt we had,\rthey said we had to discontinue.\n\n00:07:28:09 - 00:07:31:12\nSo, we had a canal festival funeral.\n\n00:07:31:12 - 00:07:35:00\nSomeone made a big paper maché duck.\n\n00:07:35:00 - 00:07:37:03\nWe had a lot of\rducks in the canals.\n\n00:07:37:03 - 00:07:39:18\nCrying...\n\n00:07:39:18 - 00:07:42:00\nAnd, somebody else,\n\n00:07:42:00 - 00:07:45:11\nthey did some poetry\ron a bank of one of the canals.\n\n00:07:45:11 - 00:07:47:21\nThere was this Chinese gong,\n\n00:07:47:21 - 00:07:52:11\nand person would say this,\rthis, beautiful poem about...\n\n00:07:52:11 - 00:07:53:02\nwonderful.\n\n00:07:53:02 - 00:07:55:02\nI can't remember it now.\n\n00:07:55:02 - 00:07:57:18\nAnd, uhmmm...\n\n00:07:57:18 - 00:08:01:09\nAnd then we all went over\rto where Sparc is now.\n\n00:08:01:09 - 00:08:03:16\nAnd, they gave us, uh...\n\n00:08:03:16 - 00:08:06:16\nThere was a candle\rthat was put on a piece of wood\n\n00:08:06:16 - 00:08:09:16\nin a paper bag,\n\n00:08:09:16 - 00:08:13:14\nand then you'd write the name of\rsomeone you knew who was deceased,\n\n00:08:13:14 - 00:08:16:08\non this candle and light it.\n\n00:08:16:08 - 00:08:17:09\nAnd then you’d...\n\n00:08:17:09 - 00:08:20:18\nWe walked a little parade\rback to the canals,\n\n00:08:20:18 - 00:08:25:11\nand we had a ceremony\rwhere we put them into the canal.\n\n00:08:25:11 - 00:08:28:04\nVery beautiful.\n\n00:08:28:04 - 00:08:31:01\nWhen did you start\rto do art in Venice?\n\n00:08:31:01 - 00:08:34:15\nWhere you were,\rduring that period?\n\n00:08:34:15 - 00:08:39:01\nWell, uhmmm...\n\n00:08:39:01 - 00:08:40:15\nI got my Bachelors at\n\n00:08:40:15 - 00:08:43:05\nthe Chicago Art Institute.\n\n00:08:43:05 - 00:08:45:07\nMy husband also.\n\n00:08:45:07 - 00:08:47:15\nAnd, uhmmm...\n\n00:08:49:19 - 00:08:52:10\nI just, uhmmm...\n\n00:08:52:10 - 00:08:55:10\njust sort of did things on my own.\n\n00:08:56:12 - 00:09:01:09\nBut, what I got into was, uhmmm...\n\n00:09:01:09 - 00:09:04:11\nI found a, just through\rthe meeting of people\n\n00:09:04:11 - 00:09:05:04\nI found a...\n\n00:09:05:04 - 00:09:09:08\nWe'd go to each other's\rhouses and, and hire a model.\n\n00:09:09:08 - 00:09:11:03\nI was a figure painter.\n\n00:09:11:03 - 00:09:13:09\nAnd so, uhmmm...\n\n00:09:13:09 - 00:09:15:07\nThat was my first experience.\n\n00:09:15:07 - 00:09:18:15\nThere was where I met\ra group of artists that were.\n\n00:09:18:15 - 00:09:20:08\nThat was good.\n\n00:09:20:08 - 00:09:22:09\nAnd so I still have\rthe painting I did.\n\n00:09:22:09 - 00:09:25:06\nIt was of Carol Fondillier.\n\n00:09:25:06 - 00:09:29:12\nAnd uhmmm...\rbut nobody can recognize her.\n\n00:09:29:12 - 00:09:32:23\nI did, uhmmm...\rjoin a women's artist collective\n\n00:09:32:23 - 00:09:36:22\ncalled Jia,\rwhich is Sanskrit for peace.\n\n00:09:36:22 - 00:09:40:15\nThey were approached\rby, Judy Baca from the citywide\n\n00:09:40:15 - 00:09:44:02\nmural project\rthat they wanted to do a mural in Venice.\n\n00:09:45:05 - 00:09:47:20\nAnd, um.. \n\n00:09:47:20 - 00:09:50:23\nI was part of that group,\rand so I volunteered.\n\n00:09:50:23 - 00:09:54:04\nI always wanted to do murals, work big.\n\n00:09:54:04 - 00:09:57:18\nWere you still doing\rdid you do other murals besides Venice?\n\n00:09:57:18 - 00:10:01:03\nYeah, there's one on, on umm.  \n\n00:10:01:03 - 00:10:04:10\nOceanfront Walk at Park,\rfaces Park Avenue.\n\n00:10:05:05 - 00:10:06:13\nSame thing.\n\n00:10:06:13 - 00:10:11:00\nBig bulldozer coming in and and,\rdestroying our life\n\n00:10:11:00 - 00:10:15:00\nand our atmosphere\rand so forth,  called endangered species.\n\n00:10:15:00 - 00:10:16:16\nAnd that has,\n\n00:10:16:16 - 00:10:19:16\nit looks like, it's supposed to be like a\n\n00:10:20:15 - 00:10:24:02\ntractor rolling over with his hands\rsticking out.\n\n00:10:24:02 - 00:10:26:05\nSo it's like rolling over a person.\n\n00:10:26:05 - 00:10:28:08\nWe also, umm\n\n00:10:28:08 - 00:10:31:08\nwork a lot with Beyond Baroque.\n\n00:10:32:09 - 00:10:35:01\nwe've joined forces as an ad hoc committee\n\n00:10:35:01 - 00:10:39:00\nwith a Japanese-American memorial monument\ron the corner of Lincoln and Venice.\n\n00:10:39:13 - 00:10:43:20\nWhen 9/11 happened\rand they were talking about interning\n\n00:10:43:20 - 00:10:46:01\nThe Muslims\n\n00:10:46:01 - 00:10:48:12\njust to save this, make it safe for them.\n\n00:10:48:12 - 00:10:51:19\nBut basically, it's, you know, so,\n\n00:10:55:09 - 00:10:58:09\nWe have\ra local paper called The Beachhead.\n\n00:10:59:02 - 00:11:02:13\nAnd, there was this 15 year old boy\n\n00:11:02:13 - 00:11:05:15\nwho was in school at Venice High School,\n\n00:11:06:19 - 00:11:10:11\nand he read this article,\rand he took it to his teacher at Venice\n\n00:11:10:11 - 00:11:14:12\nHigh School,\rwho was a Japanese-American person,\n\n00:11:14:17 - 00:11:18:22\nand he asked her about it,\rand she told him the history of it.\n\n00:11:19:10 - 00:11:22:21\nThe history of the Japanese-Americans\rbeing put into prison camps.\n\n00:11:23:02 - 00:11:26:06\nShe had them write letters\rto Bill Rosendahl,\n\n00:11:26:06 - 00:11:29:06\nwho was our consul person at that time.\n\n00:11:29:14 - 00:11:31:14\nAnd, he was very taken\n\n00:11:31:14 - 00:11:35:05\nwith the letters and The Beachhead \rpublished those letters.\n\n00:11:35:05 - 00:11:36:15\nThat these kids wrote.\n\n00:11:36:15 - 00:11:38:00\nA lot of them Latino.\n\n00:11:38:00 - 00:11:43:11\nAnd so Phyllis ( Hayashibara ) put an ad into The Beachhead that said she'd like to put a plaque up\n\n00:11:43:11 - 00:11:45:23\non that corner to commemorate it,\n\n00:11:45:23 - 00:11:50:15\nbecause there's a picture,\ran old picture of a\n\n00:11:50:15 - 00:11:54:08\nthat we can't I think the photographer\rwas probably deceased by now.\n\n00:11:55:07 - 00:11:58:21\nAnd, the there's a brick building there.\n\n00:11:59:10 - 00:12:01:10\nIt's still there.\n\n00:12:01:10 - 00:12:04:05\nAnd you see these people lined up\n\n00:12:04:05 - 00:12:08:02\nfront waiting to be taken away, that\rthey didn't know where they were going.\n\n00:12:08:02 - 00:12:10:02\nThey were told\rthey just had to leave .\n\n00:12:10:02 - 00:12:10:17\nFrom Venice?\n\n00:12:10:17 - 00:12:13:17\nYeah, from Venice, Malibu\rand Santa Monica.\n\n00:12:13:19 - 00:12:14:16\nShe called a meeting.\n\n00:12:14:16 - 00:12:16:13\nA bunch of us showed up.\n\n00:12:16:13 - 00:12:19:13\nYeah, there's a lot of people\rfrom different Japanese-American groups.\n\n00:12:20:17 - 00:12:23:17\nAnd so we got very involved with that,\n\n00:12:24:01 - 00:12:28:05\nand it took us about 6 or 7 years\rto accomplish it.\n\n00:12:28:05 - 00:12:30:12\nIt's a black,\n\n00:12:30:12 - 00:12:33:12\nsolid granite,\n\n00:12:34:07 - 00:12:36:05\nobelisk.\n\n00:12:36:05 - 00:12:38:18\nIt took us about a year\rto decide on the obelisk\n\n00:12:38:18 - 00:12:41:18\nbecause we want to do something\rmore artful.\n\n00:12:43:00 - 00:12:46:09\nbut that's the symbol\rthat they use on their as their logo,\n\n00:12:46:09 - 00:12:50:00\nThe Manzanar camp.\n\n00:12:50:00 - 00:12:51:06\nSo we.\n\n00:12:51:06 - 00:12:53:16\nWhich is where those people were taken.\n\n00:12:53:16 - 00:12:57:02\nSo it's nine\rfeet high and three feet base,\n\n00:12:57:02 - 00:13:00:02\nsquare base and white letters.\n\n00:13:01:01 - 00:13:02:17\nAnd the front has what, what?\n\n00:13:02:17 - 00:13:03:16\nThe mission of the monument\n\n00:13:03:16 - 00:13:07:08\nis to remind people\rwe don't imprison people because of their\n\n00:13:07:15 - 00:13:11:06\ntheir race or their religion\ror their sex or so forth.\n\n00:13:11:16 - 00:13:15:14\nAnd there is quotes\rfrom the five internees\n\n00:13:15:14 - 00:13:19:23\nthat were part of our organization\rabout the camp.\n\n00:13:19:23 - 00:13:24:07\nPhyllis Hayashibara.. she was kind of our leader.\n\n00:13:24:07 - 00:13:27:04\nAnd I went to the,\n\n00:13:27:04 - 00:13:30:04\nwe had it made by a, monument maker and\n\n00:13:31:08 - 00:13:34:08\nnear Bakersfield,\n\n00:13:34:09 - 00:13:36:04\nand we went to see that.\n\n00:13:36:04 - 00:13:39:21\nAnd we also went\rwhen they were going to deliver it to us.\n\n00:13:40:19 - 00:13:43:10\nAnd we followed the truck\n\n00:13:43:10 - 00:13:46:10\ncarrying it.\n\n00:13:49:05 - 00:13:51:12\nIt makes me cry.\n\n00:13:51:12 - 00:13:53:03\nAnd then, uhm\n\n00:13:58:11 - 00:14:01:10\nI'm proud to be a part of this community.\n\n00:14:02:10 - 00:14:05:10\nThe people I've known.\n\n00:14:08:08 - 00:14:11:08\nWere so.\n\n00:14:16:05 - 00:14:19:05\nSo passionate and involved\n\n00:14:19:14 - 00:14:21:05\nand still are.\rThose who are still with us.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://veniceheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2416/collection_resources/129342/file/243175#t=0.0,872.49067"}]}]}]}