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Lincoln Boulevard.\n\n00:00:30:18 - 00:00:34:16\nAnd we moved in there, and I lived there.\n\n00:00:34:16 - 00:00:38:23\nActually went to school, Saint Mark's,\n\n00:00:38:23 - 00:00:41:23\nand then I went to\rSaint Monica's and graduated.\n\n00:00:41:23 - 00:00:46:03\nAnd I was there to a probably ‘til I was about 19 years old.\n\n00:00:46:03 - 00:00:50:06\nI went in to Saint Mark's\ron Coeur d'Alene.\n\n00:00:50:06 - 00:00:55:17\nAnd, it was kind of cool\rbecause when I went to my classroom,\n\n00:00:55:17 - 00:00:57:19\nmy cousin was there.\n\n00:00:57:19 - 00:01:01:23\nViveca Madrid,\rand they used to live right here\n\n00:01:01:23 - 00:01:06:23\non 28th Street, right on\rthe walk street near the ocean.\n\n00:01:06:23 - 00:01:12:07\nSo, then I, you know, I went to school\rwith her till the eighth grade.\n\n00:01:12:07 - 00:01:15:19\nI had a girlfriend who used to,\n\n00:01:15:19 - 00:01:18:19\nlive right next to the fire department.\n\n00:01:18:19 - 00:01:20:20\nSo I would walk down Venice Boulevard.\n\n00:01:20:20 - 00:01:24:07\nThey used to have the\rtrain tracks and the trains here.\n\n00:01:24:07 - 00:01:26:08\nAnd we would\rgo up there, you know.\n\n00:01:26:08 - 00:01:27:13\nThe walk streets were great.\n\n00:01:27:13 - 00:01:29:13\nThe plants, my mom\rused like tulips, so...\n\n00:01:29:13 - 00:01:34:04\nsometimes I would take a cutting,\ryou know, so she could plant it in the yard.\n\n00:01:34:04 - 00:01:37:04\nI remember going with my\n\n00:01:37:04 - 00:01:40:16\ngreat grandmother to Venice Beach.\n\n00:01:40:16 - 00:01:43:11\nThey used to have wrestling matches there\n\n00:01:43:11 - 00:01:46:14\nand Freddie, Freddie\rBlassie and, you know, and probably\n\n00:01:46:14 - 00:01:49:12\ndon't you know about that.\rBut that used to be fun.\n\n00:01:49:12 - 00:01:54:20\nYou know, Venice Beach\rused to have these big rocks right on the...\n\n00:01:54:20 - 00:01:58:07\nyou used to be able to stand on it\rand take the sand away.\n\n00:01:58:07 - 00:02:02:01\nBut they eventually took that...\rand that used, before they put the rocks there\n\n00:02:02:01 - 00:02:06:06\nthe waves used to come in clash,\ryou know, used to be fun.\n\n00:02:06:06 - 00:02:08:14\nJust stand there\rand let the waves hit you.\n\n00:02:08:14 - 00:02:10:22\nAnd, uhmmm...\n\n00:02:11:08 - 00:02:14:19\nSo, so then, you know, \rI went to Saint Monica's and then,\n\n00:02:14:19 - 00:02:19:09\nI got hired at the\rpost office and I guess, see\n\n00:02:19:09 - 00:02:24:17\nthe difference in the post office\rwas, you know, there was a lot of,\n\n00:02:24:17 - 00:02:27:16\nhippies, you know, and\n\n00:02:27:16 - 00:02:30:22\nho-dads, as we call them,\ryou know, Mexicans were called\n\n00:02:30:22 - 00:02:35:07\nho-dads, you know, the way they dress\rwith their pants creased and everything.\n\n00:02:35:07 - 00:02:37:08\nBut everybody, you know,\rmore or less got along.\n\n00:02:37:08 - 00:02:38:17\nYou know, I worked at the post office.\n\n00:02:38:17 - 00:02:42:09\nGuys would come in with their\runderwear or dressed like women.\n\n00:02:42:09 - 00:02:45:13\nBut it was like no big, you know,\rwe were just like, what?\n\n00:02:45:13 - 00:02:46:14\nYou know?\n\n00:02:46:14 - 00:02:49:20\nBut everybody, \rmore or less, got along.\n\n00:02:49:20 - 00:02:51:08\nIn Venice...\n\n00:02:51:08 - 00:02:54:09\nuh...when they first, uhmmm...\n\n00:02:54:09 - 00:02:55:20\nhad property and stuff like that.\n\n00:02:55:20 - 00:02:57:04\nIt was very reasonable.\n\n00:02:57:04 - 00:03:00:22\nYou know ,my mom bought her\r house there, on Amoroso\n\n00:03:00:22 - 00:03:05:07\nfor, like, $16,000., you know, $2,000 down.\n\n00:03:05:07 - 00:03:09:23\nSo a lot of, Mexican people,\rI think, could afford to move\n\n00:03:09:23 - 00:03:13:21\nto move there, whereas\rthey weren't given the opportunity...\n\n00:03:13:21 - 00:03:17:01\nuhh...and which made it nice.\n\n00:03:17:01 - 00:03:20:21\nAnd then my sisters, they,\rthey went to Walgrove.\n\n00:03:20:21 - 00:03:22:11\nYou know, everybody knew everybody.\n\n00:03:22:11 - 00:03:25:09\nYou walk to school,\reverybody knew the crossing guard.\n\n00:03:25:09 - 00:03:28:04\nAnd, you know, I, my mom had five kids.\n\n00:03:28:04 - 00:03:32:10\nSo, when we were all in school, she\rprobably would like Hallelujah, she get...\n\n00:03:32:10 - 00:03:36:09\nI got this time to myself because she's\rone of the few of all her sisters.\n\n00:03:36:09 - 00:03:39:11\nShe's the only one\rthat drove and had a car.\n\n00:03:39:11 - 00:03:43:02\nSo, you know, she could go visit her\rsisters, go visit her mom.\n\n00:03:43:02 - 00:03:45:23\nAnd, you know, she got to know, neighbors.\n\n00:03:45:23 - 00:03:47:10\nShe spoke Spanish.\n\n00:03:47:10 - 00:03:52:18\nBut not only did she have friends,\rMexican friends, you know, she, Anglos.\n\n00:03:52:18 - 00:03:55:12\nAnd she would talk\rto them, go to their house.\n\n00:03:55:12 - 00:03:58:09\nShe even worked at a,\ra shop there on Lincoln.\n\n00:03:58:09 - 00:04:00:18\nIt was called the One, Two, Three Shop.\n\n00:04:00:18 - 00:04:03:20\nAnd, you know, she'd help people,\ryou know, get their,\n\n00:04:03:20 - 00:04:05:16\ntheir clothes and people remember her.\n\n00:04:05:16 - 00:04:08:10\nAnd then, after I got married,\n\n00:04:08:10 - 00:04:09:12\nI bought a house\n\n00:04:09:12 - 00:04:12:16\noff of\rVenice Boulevard, Mar Vista.\n\n00:04:12:16 - 00:04:17:21\nAnd then my husband decided he, \rhe got into doing bodywork.\n\n00:04:17:21 - 00:04:20:19\nSo he...\n\n00:04:20:19 - 00:04:22:14\nsaw that the for rent property\n\n00:04:22:14 - 00:04:25:15\nat 595 Venice Boulevard in Venice.\n\n00:04:25:15 - 00:04:29:18\nSo he went and talked\rto the gentleman, and he asked him,\n\n00:04:29:18 - 00:04:31:21\nyou know, he'd like to rent it.\n\n00:04:31:21 - 00:04:33:22\nAnd he kind of more or less\rtold them he goes,\n\n00:04:33:22 - 00:04:37:22\n“Well...take me to your house.”\n\n00:04:37:22 - 00:04:39:22\nMy husband Mario goes,“to my house?”\n\n00:04:39:22 - 00:04:41:01\n“Okay...”\n\n00:04:41:01 - 00:04:43:14\nSo he took us to the house,\r he walked through\n\n00:04:43:14 - 00:04:46:02\nand I was there sitting\rwith my mom and I go, “what?”\n\n00:04:46:02 - 00:04:48:20\nBringing this guy to the house like,\ryou know, then he went back.\n\n00:04:48:20 - 00:04:50:17\nHe goes, “okay, I'll rent to you.”\n\n00:04:50:17 - 00:04:52:06\nAnd he gave my husband a chance.\n\n00:04:52:06 - 00:04:53:19\nHe'd only been here,\n\n00:04:53:19 - 00:04:57:03\nwe came here\rprobably when he was about 16.\n\n00:04:57:03 - 00:04:59:22\nAnd he took a chance,\rbut he was smart.\n\n00:04:59:22 - 00:05:02:10\n“I'm gonna to rent to you month to month.”\n\n00:05:02:10 - 00:05:04:09\nBut my husband was there over 40 years.\n\n00:05:04:09 - 00:05:06:13\nAt Mars Body Shop. Month to month.\n\n00:05:06:13 - 00:05:12:07\nWhen he first opened, he didn't, you know,\reverything was by hand, his estimates\n\n00:05:12:07 - 00:05:16:06\nor whatever, and he'd get\rall different kinds of people in there.\n\n00:05:16:06 - 00:05:20:18\nI think I stayed in Venice\rbecause I felt like I belonged.\n\n00:05:20:18 - 00:05:22:13\nThat, uhmmm...\n\n00:05:22:13 - 00:05:26:23\nI felt at home.\rIt was where I was raised.\n\n00:05:26:23 - 00:05:30:17\nIt was where I was given my faith,\n\n00:05:30:17 - 00:05:33:13\nwhich I appreciated from my mom.\n\n00:05:33:13 - 00:05:36:02\nAnd, I just enjoyed it.\n\n00:05:36:02 - 00:05:37:11\nI felt at home.\n\n00:05:37:11 - 00:05:42:00\nYou go to the beach, you know,\rgo to the movies, go to the Fox Theater.\n\n00:05:42:00 - 00:05:46:21\nYou know, sit in the crying room\rand make a lot of noise.\n\n00:05:46:21 - 00:05:51:15\nRoll down the aisles, knock people over,\ryou know, just... It was fun.\n\n00:05:51:15 - 00:05:54:19\nPeople felt that they\rcould be themselves, I believe.\n\n00:05:54:19 - 00:05:56:03\nYou know...\n\n00:05:56:03 - 00:05:58:01\nwhen I was growing up in Venice.\n\n00:05:58:01 - 00:06:00:08\nSomething I guess,\rthat people might not know about\n\n00:06:00:08 - 00:06:05:19\nVenice is that it is very diversified.\n\n00:06:05:19 - 00:06:10:05\nAnd, uhmmm...it's a beachy town.\n\n00:06:10:05 - 00:06:11:11\nAnd I don’t really cuss\n\n00:06:11:11 - 00:06:14:21\nbut it’s bitchin’ too, you know, and,\n\n00:06:14:21 - 00:06:16:19\nyou know...\n\n00:06:16:19 - 00:06:20:05\nit's a... you're free spirited.\n\n00:06:20:05 - 00:06:23:22\nI'm proud that I was\n\n00:06:23:22 - 00:06:26:20\nlived in, in uh... Venice.\n\n00:06:26:20 - 00:06:27:21\nA lot of people wouldn’t know that.\n\n00:06:27:21 - 00:06:30:02\nBut I'm proud...\n\n00:06:30:02 - 00:06:32:14\nthen and now.\n\n00:06:32:14 - 00:06:34:09\nAnd uh..., now.\n\n00:06:34:09 - 00:06:35:22\nViva Venice!\n\n00:06:35:22 - 00:06:37:03\n(laughs)","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://veniceheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2416/collection_resources/129360/file/242809#t=0.0,406.05867"}]}]}]}