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00:00:07:08\nMy name is Phyllis Hayashibara.\n\n00:00:07:08 - 00:00:10:19\nI was born on December the 8th, 1951.\n\n00:00:10:21 - 00:00:11:05\n“Okay.\n\n00:00:11:05 - 00:00:11:16\nAnd I know\n\n00:00:11:16 - 00:00:15:14\nthat you have not lived in Venice,\rbut can you please talk about what year\n\n00:00:15:14 - 00:00:17:14\nyou first came to Venice\rand what brought you?”\n\n00:00:17:14 - 00:00:21:04\nI started teaching at Venice\rHigh School in 1985.\n\n00:00:21:04 - 00:00:24:01\nI taught in the social studies department.\n\n00:00:24:01 - 00:00:26:13\nSo I taught US History and World history mainly.\n\n00:00:26:13 - 00:00:31:01\nIt was the first school that I thought\rI should stay here forever\n\n00:00:31:03 - 00:00:34:19\nbecause the students were third\rand fourth generation students.\n\n00:00:34:21 - 00:00:37:18\nFamilies, who had gone to, you know their\rtheir grandparents had gone to Venice\n\n00:00:37:18 - 00:00:41:06\nHigh School, and it was a wonderful\rcommunity of teachers.\n\n00:00:41:08 - 00:00:44:08\nThere was great camaraderie\ramong the staff.\n\n00:00:44:09 - 00:00:47:05\nThey didn't have too many \rnew teachers at one time\n\n00:00:47:05 - 00:00:50:07\nbecause people tended to stay\rat Venice High School for their careers.\n\n00:00:50:07 - 00:00:51:02\n“Why do you think.\n\n00:00:51:02 - 00:00:54:23\nthe staff at Venice High School always\rstayed and didn't have a big turnover?”\n\n00:00:55:01 - 00:01:00:02\nWell, there was a Vice Principal\rwho opened every faculty meeting with\n\n00:01:00:04 - 00:01:03:03\n“welcome to the best\rkept secret on the West Side,”\n\n00:01:03:03 - 00:01:04:08\nwhich is Venice High School.\n\n00:01:04:08 - 00:01:07:08\nVenice High School had a reputation\rof being a gang related school.\n\n00:01:07:14 - 00:01:11:16\nSo before I went for my interview,\rI asked a gal I knew there.\n\n00:01:11:16 - 00:01:14:07\nI said, “How are the gangs?”\rWhat gangs?\n\n00:01:14:07 - 00:01:17:01\nThey leave that stuff at home and they do.\n\n00:01:17:01 - 00:01:20:05\nI mean, they're, um, third generation\rgang member\n\n00:01:20:05 - 00:01:23:10\nfamilies, too,\rbut it's kind of like neutral ground.\n\n00:01:23:13 - 00:01:24:09\nVenice High School.\n\n00:01:24:09 - 00:01:28:08\nWell, it was at the time that I was there.\rThe students of Venice High School\n\n00:01:28:11 - 00:01:33:18\nare very kind and generous and friendly.\n\n00:01:33:20 - 00:01:36:20\nI had this one horrible student\n\n00:01:36:21 - 00:01:41:03\nwho's Latino,\rand he would just, he was a leader of the\n\n00:01:41:05 - 00:01:42:13\nthe ‘let's get Mrs.\n\n00:01:42:13 - 00:01:44:15\nHayashibara to lose her cool.’\n\n00:01:44:15 - 00:01:45:20\nSo he would say something\n\n00:01:45:20 - 00:01:48:13\nand then the whole class\rwould burst out into laughter.\n\n00:01:48:13 - 00:01:50:08\nHis name was Rene.\n\n00:01:50:08 - 00:01:52:15\nYou know, he would say things\rthat would almost make me cry\n\n00:01:52:15 - 00:01:57:04\n‘cause I would spend one evening\rlike calling parents to talk about their\n\n00:01:57:06 - 00:02:00:06\ntheir children's bad behavior\rand then in the classroom he goes,\n\n00:02:00:11 - 00:02:01:11\n“Oh, you had nothing better to do\n\n00:02:01:11 - 00:02:03:18\nlast night Ms. Hayashibara, calling all the parents.”\n\n00:02:03:18 - 00:02:07:03\nAnd I was thinking,\rI had a lot of better things to do.\n\n00:02:07:05 - 00:02:10:17\nTurns out, Rene was a sweetheart.\n\n00:02:10:19 - 00:02:13:11\nHe was a talented artist,\n\n00:02:13:11 - 00:02:16:16\nand I encouraged him to\n\n00:02:16:18 - 00:02:18:16\napply for one of the, um,\n\n00:02:18:16 - 00:02:23:11\nit was a, an art contest for women.\n\n00:02:23:13 - 00:02:26:06\nI think it was Latina women in the media.\n\n00:02:26:06 - 00:02:30:15\nAnd he did this great sketch of, uh\rit was Gloria Molina.\n\n00:02:30:16 - 00:02:33:02\nSo I had him when he was in\n\n00:02:33:04 - 00:02:34:20\n11th grade.\n\n00:02:34:20 - 00:02:38:06\nAnd then I got to know him better\rwhen he wasn't in my class.\n\n00:02:38:06 - 00:02:40:21\nAnd we had this wonderful \rconversation outside my door,\n\n00:02:40:21 - 00:02:42:02\nhe's talking about\n\n00:02:42:02 - 00:02:46:04\nhis mom's Mexican cooking because,\ryou know, Mexican cook is really loud.\n\n00:02:46:04 - 00:02:50:14\nI'm trying to do my homework\rand psssshhh, she's throwing stuff into the hot oil,\n\n00:02:50:16 - 00:02:54:12\nand then he's going shopping with his mom\rfor pants and she says, “Oh mijo, \n\n00:02:54:12 - 00:02:56:12\nyou don't want these big pants,\rthey look so big.”\n\n00:02:56:12 - 00:02:58:12\nHe goes, “No, mom, that's what we want.\n\n00:02:58:12 - 00:03:00:00\nI want big pants.” \n\n00:03:00:00 - 00:03:03:20\nAnd I just got to know him better.\n\n00:03:03:22 - 00:03:06:17\nAnd I started inviting him\n\n00:03:06:17 - 00:03:09:22\nto go with me to the art museums.\n\n00:03:09:23 - 00:03:12:19\nBut I lost touch with him\rafter about four or five years.\n\n00:03:12:19 - 00:03:15:05\nWhat happened was\n\n00:03:15:05 - 00:03:16:21\none day I always work late\n\n00:03:16:21 - 00:03:20:09\nat school, correcting papers\rand getting ready for the next day.\n\n00:03:20:11 - 00:03:22:06\nAnd so one day\rI came out of the parking lot\n\n00:03:22:06 - 00:03:24:19\nand I was like,\rthe last cars left in the parking lot.\n\n00:03:24:19 - 00:03:27:19\nAnd he comes up to me\rwith this giant bouquet of flowers.\n\n00:03:27:20 - 00:03:30:04\nI say Ms. Hayashibara\n\n00:03:30:06 - 00:03:30:16\nI'm gonna\n\n00:03:30:16 - 00:03:33:16\ngraduate from Santa Monica College.\n\n00:03:33:18 - 00:03:38:14\nHe wanted me to come to his graduation\rbecause he felt I helped him\n\n00:03:38:16 - 00:03:42:12\nin some way, even though I felt like\rI was fighting with him all the time.\n\n00:03:42:14 - 00:03:47:14\nI retired from in Venice High School in 2011,\rwhich is the centennial of the school.\n\n00:03:47:16 - 00:03:50:05\nI thought that would be a good time to retire. \r\n\n00:03:50:05 - 00:03:53:05\nBefore I retired in 2009,\n\n00:03:53:10 - 00:03:56:04\nanother memorable student named Scott Pine\n\n00:03:56:04 - 00:03:58:04\nbrought in for current events discussion,\n\n00:03:58:04 - 00:04:00:17\nA copy of the Free Venice Beachhead\n\n00:04:00:17 - 00:04:04:14\nand on the front cover was the pink\n\n00:04:04:16 - 00:04:07:17\ntinged photograph\rof the Japanese Americans\n\n00:04:07:17 - 00:04:10:18\nstanding up in line along \rVenice Boulevard in front of that\n\n00:04:10:18 - 00:04:14:05\nbrick building that still stands\rat the corner of Venice and Lincoln.\n\n00:04:14:07 - 00:04:15:17\nAnd the article was by\n\n00:04:15:17 - 00:04:19:15\nanother young man named Scott Ueda,\rwho has since passed away.\n\n00:04:19:16 - 00:04:22:01\nBut he wrote about his family's\n\n00:04:22:01 - 00:04:26:19\nexperiences\rwith the forced removal and incarceration.\n\n00:04:26:21 - 00:04:29:04\nSo, in that\n\n00:04:29:04 - 00:04:32:12\nFree Venice Beachhead, \rthere's a little blue box that said, “Lest\n\n00:04:32:12 - 00:04:38:20\nwe forget.  Readers, please send \ran email to your councilmember,\n\n00:04:38:20 - 00:04:43:16\nBill Rosendahl of the District\r11 on the City Council\n\n00:04:43:18 - 00:04:48:12\nand ask for his support\rfor some kind of a permanent marker\n\n00:04:48:14 - 00:04:54:00\nto mark where the Japanese-Americans\rin Venice, Santa Monica, and Malibu\n\n00:04:54:04 - 00:04:58:02\nhad to line up for transport\rto an American concentration camp.\n\n00:04:58:03 - 00:05:00:16\nTurns out that was to go to Manzanar.\n\n00:05:00:16 - 00:05:01:15\nSo we did that.\n\n00:05:01:15 - 00:05:05:10\nWe sent letters to Bill Rosendahl , or emails, \n\n00:05:05:12 - 00:05:08:21\nand then we cc’d them to the Free Venice Beachhead.\n\n00:05:08:23 - 00:05:12:12\nSo that was in April when Scott\rbrought in the Free Venice Beachhead.\n\n00:05:12:14 - 00:05:15:09\nAnd in June, the Free Venice Beachhead\n\n00:05:15:09 - 00:05:18:13\nhad printed every single\rone of those students’ letters.\n\n00:05:18:15 - 00:05:21:06\nAnd then that brought us to the attention\n\n00:05:21:06 - 00:05:25:04\nof Emily Winters,\rwho is a Venice activist and artist.\n\n00:05:25:06 - 00:05:28:05\nShe's a founder, co-founder\rof the Venice Arts Council.\n\n00:05:28:05 - 00:05:32:02\nAnd she said,\r“Can we get together at school and\n\n00:05:32:04 - 00:05:35:04\nhave your people meet my people?”\n\n00:05:35:08 - 00:05:37:23\nI don't have any people, but sure, come.\n\n00:05:37:23 - 00:05:41:01\nSo I met Emily Winters\rand Suzanne Thompson,\n\n00:05:41:01 - 00:05:45:03\nalso of the Venice Arts Council,\rand we talked about\n\n00:05:45:05 - 00:05:46:15\nhow we can make this a reality.\n\n00:05:46:15 - 00:05:48:12\nHow can we do a permanent marker\n\n00:05:48:12 - 00:05:53:00\nto remind people that we shouldn't\rround up people without any due process?\n\n00:05:53:05 - 00:05:56:20\nAnd I picked out one letter from Felix\n\n00:05:56:22 - 00:06:01:07\nwho in his letter, he asked for support\n\n00:06:01:09 - 00:06:06:15\nfor a permanent memorial or marker\rso that this would never happen again.\n\n00:06:06:17 - 00:06:09:17\nAnd he said, I picked his letter\rbecause he said this.\n\n00:06:09:21 - 00:06:13:09\nHe said, “As time goes\ron, people forget what happened.\n\n00:06:13:11 - 00:06:17:22\nAnd if we don't memorialize that corner,\rpeople will forget it ever happened here.” \n\n00:06:17:23 - 00:06:20:20\nSo we had a press conference\n\n00:06:20:20 - 00:06:24:05\nlike, on that corner, and Bill Rosendahl  spoke\n\n00:06:24:07 - 00:06:28:09\nabout the need for some way\rto commemorate this corner\n\n00:06:28:11 - 00:06:33:00\nfor the Americans\rof Japanese ancestry who were\n\n00:06:33:02 - 00:06:34:04\ntaken away,\n\n00:06:34:04 - 00:06:38:01\nabout a thousand families,\ra thousand people from Venice,\n\n00:06:38:01 - 00:06:42:00\nSanta Monica and Malibu, were rounded up\rand told, well, they weren't rounded up.\n\n00:06:42:03 - 00:06:45:04\nThey went voluntarily\rbecause of the civilian exclusion\n\n00:06:45:04 - 00:06:48:04\norders were tacked up on telephone poles,\n\n00:06:48:09 - 00:06:51:16\nand the Japanese-Americans complied.\n\n00:06:51:18 - 00:06:55:03\nThey went to the civilian control station\rto report\n\n00:06:55:03 - 00:07:00:11\nand get their identification tags with numbers,\rand they voluntarily reported\n\n00:07:00:11 - 00:07:04:16\nwith only what they could carry\rin their big duffel bags or\n\n00:07:04:18 - 00:07:07:10\nfoot lockers to that corner.\n\n00:07:07:10 - 00:07:10:10\nSo there were civilian\n\n00:07:10:14 - 00:07:12:23\nexclusion orders up and down the coast\n\n00:07:12:23 - 00:07:16:06\nfrom Washington through California.\n\n00:07:16:08 - 00:07:21:02\nWell, after the students went to City Hall,\n\n00:07:21:04 - 00:07:25:06\nand after the letters, their letters\rwere published in the Free Venice Beachhead\n\n00:07:25:08 - 00:07:27:14\nThen I met with the Venice\n\n00:07:27:14 - 00:07:30:14\nactivists Emily Winters and Suzanne Thompson.\n\n00:07:30:17 - 00:07:32:09\nIt started there,\n\n00:07:32:09 - 00:07:37:13\nand that was, it happened to be September\r11th, 2010.\n\n00:07:37:15 - 00:07:40:23\nAnd people brought money to donate to us then.\n\n00:07:41:01 - 00:07:46:15\nWe didn't even have a design,\rbut we got together and\n\n00:07:46:17 - 00:07:49:01\nwe were talking about somebody said,\n\n00:07:49:01 - 00:07:53:01\n“Why don't you put a bronze marker\ron the on the sidewalk?”\n\n00:07:53:03 - 00:07:56:00\nAnd we said, “Well, no one would see it.”\n\n00:07:56:00 - 00:07:59:07\nAnd then we had different kinds of designs\n\n00:07:59:07 - 00:08:05:02\nthat were like, a desktop with a bronze,\ryou know, slanted plaque.\n\n00:08:05:04 - 00:08:08:14\nAnd the we're worried about anything\rbronze would be stolen for the\n\n00:08:08:14 - 00:08:10:03\nthe for the bronze.\n\n00:08:10:03 - 00:08:13:00\nAnd then two of the members of the \n\n00:08:13:00 - 00:08:16:10\nYoshi Tomita drove\rArnold to that first meeting\n\n00:08:16:10 - 00:08:19:10\nand he said, “Hi,\rI'm Yosh, I'm Arnold's chauffeur.”\n\n00:08:19:13 - 00:08:23:10\nBut it turns out Yoshtumira is a great member\rof the VJAMM community, too.\n\n00:08:23:12 - 00:08:27:04\nAnd he said, “Why don't we make it\n\n00:08:27:06 - 00:08:31:09\nin the shape of the obelisk\rat Manzanar Cemetery?”\n\n00:08:31:11 - 00:08:36:07\nAnd we started fundraising\rfrom the very beginning, and\n\n00:08:36:09 - 00:08:40:06\nwe dedicated on April the 27th, 2017.\n\n00:08:40:08 - 00:08:44:05\nSo it's about seven years\rthat it took us to get to that point.\n\n00:08:44:07 - 00:08:48:04\nVJAMM stands for Venice\rJapanese-American Memorial Marker,\n\n00:08:48:08 - 00:08:53:01\nand the VJCC stands for Venice Japanese\rCommunity Center.\n\n00:08:53:06 - 00:08:56:06\nVenice is a, is a very unique community.\n\n00:08:56:09 - 00:08:59:05\nWhen I was driving over here,\n\n00:08:59:05 - 00:09:02:21\nyou cross Lincoln going west and suddenly,\ryou know, you're in Venice\n\n00:09:02:23 - 00:09:05:23\nbecause there are grown men\rskateboarding on the street\n\n00:09:05:23 - 00:09:08:12\nand there are people trundling their\n\n00:09:08:12 - 00:09:11:09\nshopping carts full of their belongings\racross the street,\n\n00:09:11:09 - 00:09:14:08\nnot even at the crosswalk,\rjust wherever they want to cross.\n\n00:09:14:08 - 00:09:16:08\nYou know, the pedestrians rule in Venice.\n\n00:09:16:08 - 00:09:17:05\nYou know when you're in Venice\n\n00:09:17:05 - 00:09:20:06\nit's a kind of a bohemian area,\reven though\n\n00:09:20:06 - 00:09:23:06\nthere's a lot of gentrification going on.\n\n00:09:23:08 - 00:09:25:16\nIt's still a community of people\n\n00:09:25:16 - 00:09:31:10\nI think, that uh, the people in Venice\rrevel in that community and\n\n00:09:31:22 - 00:09:33:19\nwhen Warren Furutani\n\n00:09:33:19 - 00:09:36:07\nspoke one time,\rhe spoke at the dedication.\n\n00:09:36:11 - 00:09:39:10\nHe said, “You know,\rthis monument is going to be vandalized.\n\n00:09:39:10 - 00:09:40:06\nIt's going to be marred.\n\n00:09:40:06 - 00:09:44:00\nIt's going to be graffitied,\rlet us stand, to let people know that\n\n00:09:44:02 - 00:09:46:09\ndiscrimination and prejudice are not dead.\n\n00:09:46:09 - 00:09:47:16\nThat they're still here.”\n\n00:09:47:16 - 00:09:51:02\nSo Suzanne followed up his remarks\rby saying, “With all due respect, Warren,\n\n00:09:51:06 - 00:09:53:02\nwe're going to clean it off.”\n\n00:09:53:02 - 00:09:56:23\nAnd, uh, but he loves coming to Venice because\n\n00:09:57:01 - 00:10:00:01\nhe, he's kind of like a Venice character himself.\n\n00:10:00:01 - 00:10:01:13\nHe's outspoken.\n\n00:10:01:13 - 00:10:04:13\nHe's not worried about what\rother people are thinking about him.\n\n00:10:04:14 - 00:10:07:14\nHe, um, he says what's on his mind.\n\n00:10:07:16 - 00:10:10:00\nAnd that's where how people in Venice are.\n\n00:10:10:00 - 00:10:14:14\nThey don't care if they're not living up\rto somebody else's standards.\n\n00:10:14:16 - 00:10:18:16\nThey live the way they want to live,\rand it makes for a great beach community.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://veniceheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2416/collection_resources/119601/file/224828#t=0.0,639.744"}]}]}]}