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\n\n00:01:47:05 - 00:01:48:13\nNah  (laughs)\n\n00:01:48:13 - 00:01:52:23\nThere wasn't that much water left\rin the canals, but there were pollywogs.\n\n00:01:52:23 - 00:01:57:00\nAnd you get in there\ras a child and you get your\n\n00:01:57:00 - 00:02:00:21\nyou get your, glass jar\rand you get the pollywogs\n\n00:02:00:21 - 00:02:04:22\nand of course, your mother\rgoes crazy when she sees you.\n\n00:02:04:22 - 00:02:07:09\n\rBecause you smell something terrible.\n\n00:02:07:09 - 00:02:08:12\nYou know. \n\n00:02:09:18 - 00:02:10:21\nIt was fun.\n\n00:02:10:21 - 00:02:15:00\nAnd then, going, because \rwe had other friends there\n\n00:02:15:00 - 00:02:19:18\ngoing up and down the, the canals and the...\n\n00:02:19:18 - 00:02:20:20\nbridges.\n\n00:02:20:20 - 00:02:23:08\nThere's a lot of bridges in the canals.\n\n00:02:23:08 - 00:02:25:11\nPeople just see one thing of the canals.\n\n00:02:25:11 - 00:02:29:17\nThey don't see everything\runless you walk around over there\n\n00:02:29:17 - 00:02:33:10\nand there's the gardens and everything,\n\n00:02:33:10 - 00:02:34:13\nuhmm, are really pretty.\n\n00:02:34:13 - 00:02:36:16\nAnd they always,\n\n00:02:36:16 - 00:02:40:02\nin the early days,\rthere was a lot more fog.\n\n00:02:40:02 - 00:02:41:06\nThat's what I remember.\n\n00:02:41:06 - 00:02:42:23\nThere was a lot of fog.\n\n00:02:42:23 - 00:02:47:05\nWhere was the first home\ryour parents purchased in Venice?\n\n00:02:47:05 - 00:02:50:17\nWell, my father, when he came to Venice,\n\n00:02:50:17 - 00:02:55:02\nat that time, he purchased a house \rfor $2,000 on the canals.\n\n00:02:55:02 - 00:02:56:16\nWow. \rRight on the canals.\n\n00:02:56:16 - 00:02:59:06\nSherman canals.\n\n00:02:59:06 - 00:03:00:21\nLater on in life,\n\n00:03:00:21 - 00:03:06:08\nthey bought a house on Woodlawn\rright near the church.\n\n00:03:06:08 - 00:03:11:08\nAnd I believe that was $19,000 for that.\n\n00:03:11:08 - 00:03:15:13\nOur cars cost more than what they\rpaid for that house.\n\n00:03:15:13 - 00:03:17:15\nAnd, uhmm...\n\n00:03:18:12 - 00:03:21:15\nOf course it wasn't as congested.\n\n00:03:21:15 - 00:03:26:00\nAnd, most families only had one car,\rif you had a car.\n\n00:03:26:00 - 00:03:28:13\nYou walked everywhere,\ryou took the bus.\n\n00:03:28:13 - 00:03:32:07\nYou learned how to take the bus\ror the train or something.\n\n00:03:32:07 - 00:03:33:18\n And, uh...\n\n00:03:33:18 - 00:03:35:19\nSo I think you just met\n\n00:03:35:19 - 00:03:39:18\na lot of other people, and,\n\n00:03:39:18 - 00:03:42:05\nit made life very interesting.\n\n00:03:42:05 - 00:03:45:00\nWe lived,\rlike I said, closer to the beach.\n\n00:03:45:00 - 00:03:48:19\nSo we went to Westminister\rand Westminster had,\n\n00:03:48:19 - 00:03:50:03\nUhmmm...\n\n00:03:50:03 - 00:03:53:06\nAt that time, a lot of children\n\n00:03:53:06 - 00:03:56:19\nfrom Mississippi, Tennessee,\n\n00:03:56:19 - 00:04:00:01\nOklahoma,\rall from all parts of the United States.\n\n00:04:00:01 - 00:04:01:08\nThey were coming here.\n\n00:04:01:08 - 00:04:04:12\nAnd because it was so, it was cheaper\n\n00:04:04:12 - 00:04:07:17\nto live here in Venice.\n\n00:04:08:01 - 00:04:09:16\nThe rents were cheaper.\n\n00:04:09:16 - 00:04:10:22\nIt felt like family.\n\n00:04:10:22 - 00:04:12:05\nEverybody was family.\n\n00:04:12:05 - 00:04:14:06\nEverybody walked home together.\n\n00:04:14:20 - 00:04:18:18\nThere were some kids \rfrom England that I remember.\n\n00:04:18:18 - 00:04:21:20\nI mean, it was like all over. It was just.\n\n00:04:21:20 - 00:04:22:11\nIt was great.\n\n00:04:22:11 - 00:04:25:21\nMy mother never knew,\rmy mother knew who I played with that day,\n\n00:04:25:21 - 00:04:28:18\nbecause I would\rcome home with that accent.\n\n00:04:28:21 - 00:04:31:21\nSo what can I say?\n\n00:04:33:05 - 00:04:35:14\nEven the holy rollers\rthat they call them, who we\n\n00:04:35:14 - 00:04:37:15\nwe'd be on the walkway.\n\n00:04:37:15 - 00:04:42:14\nAnd the beatniks\rand the music and the art and everything.\n\n00:04:42:14 - 00:04:43:21\nWe like that.\n\n00:04:43:21 - 00:04:45:20\nThe boardwalk now is kind of\n\n00:04:47:00 - 00:04:48:15\nreally loud and crazy.\n\n00:04:48:15 - 00:04:50:16\nAnd what have you back in the day.\n\n00:04:50:16 - 00:04:56:09\nAnd we had a stand, a tram\ryou could ride to the Ocean Park.\n\n00:04:56:09 - 00:04:59:07\nThere were canals everywhere.\n\n00:04:59:18 - 00:05:02:14\nAnd people, my,\n\n00:05:02:14 - 00:05:05:04\none of my teacher's sisters got married\n\n00:05:05:04 - 00:05:08:16\nand they met the steamer on the,\n\n00:05:08:16 - 00:05:11:16\nyou know, they, there were gondolas.\n\n00:05:11:16 - 00:05:14:20\nMy father said that he \rremembers seeing a gondola\n\n00:05:14:20 - 00:05:19:01\ncoming, visiting\rand it would meet the steamer.\n\n00:05:19:01 - 00:05:24:07\nI think those stories\rof how Venice used to be.\n\n00:05:24:07 - 00:05:29:19\nAnd then they, little\rby little they started...\n\n00:05:29:19 - 00:05:32:06\nclosing all the canals, naturally,\n\n00:05:32:06 - 00:05:34:11\nbecause of cars.\rYou had to have cars.\n\n00:05:34:11 - 00:05:36:06\nWhen you take Venice\n\n00:05:36:06 - 00:05:40:22\nin little segments,\rlike the parts in Santa Monica, in uhmm...\n\n00:05:40:22 - 00:05:45:15\nthe beach area was mostly, a Jewish area.\n\n00:05:45:15 - 00:05:47:11\nThe people were really nice to us.\n\n00:05:47:11 - 00:05:50:01\nTook care of everybody.\rOkay, that's one area.\n\n00:05:50:01 - 00:05:53:01\nThen you go into Westminister or\n\n00:05:53:02 - 00:05:56:00\nyou go, like I said,\rcrossing Washington Boulevard.\n\n00:05:56:00 - 00:05:58:01\nThat was another area.\n\n00:05:58:01 - 00:06:02:23\nBut we have never lived in this area.\n\n00:06:02:23 - 00:06:06:03\nWhen my father moved back to Venice \n\n00:06:06:03 - 00:06:07:17\nthis was the only area\n\n00:06:07:17 - 00:06:09:21\n\ryou could find a place at that time.\n\n00:06:09:21 - 00:06:11:21\nDo you mean this area, which area?\n\n00:06:11:21 - 00:06:15:04\nUhmm, from uhhh, let’s see...\n\n00:06:15:04 - 00:06:18:16\nRose... from that block...\n\n00:06:18:16 - 00:06:21:16\nFrom Rose to where the library is.\n\n00:06:21:16 - 00:06:22:21\nWhat is that?  California.\n\n00:06:22:21 - 00:06:26:08\nThat square area.\n\n00:06:26:08 - 00:06:28:15\nWe lived on 4th and Broadway.\n\n00:06:28:15 - 00:06:31:01\nNow we were kids.  We loved it.\n\n00:06:31:01 - 00:06:32:11\nWe were teenagers.  We loved it.\n\n00:06:32:11 - 00:06:34:09\nAll our friends, our boyfriends, everybody,\n\n00:06:34:09 - 00:06:35:18\nlived in that area.\n\n00:06:35:18 - 00:06:36:23\nWe didn’t care.\n\n00:06:36:23 - 00:06:38:13\nWe loved it.  My father\n\n00:06:38:13 - 00:06:40:15\nhe of course, he was hammering, \n\n00:06:40:15 - 00:06:43:00\nhe was nailing up the windows.\n\n00:06:43:00 - 00:06:45:09\n(laughter)\n\n00:06:45:09 - 00:06:46:00\nWhen my \n\n00:06:46:00 - 00:06:47:19\nNot that anybody was coming in.\n\n00:06:47:19 - 00:06:50:08\nSo we wouldn’t get out.\n\n00:06:50:08 - 00:06:52:07\n(laughter) \n\n00:06:52:07 - 00:06:54:22\nAnd they knew exactly when Tony Fernandez\n\n00:06:54:22 - 00:06:57:20\nwas coming home from work\rbecause they were gone.\n\n00:06:57:20 - 00:06:58:23\nThey were gone.\n\n00:06:58:23 - 00:06:59:23\nOh, my God.\n\n00:06:59:23 - 00:07:02:12\nTony Fernandez is?\rMy father.  Ya. \n\n00:07:02:12 - 00:07:06:11\nWhen did you first see\ra cultural shift in Venice?\n\n00:07:06:11 - 00:07:10:22\nProbably in the 70s,\rbut maybe a little bit before that.\n\n00:07:10:22 - 00:07:14:23\nBut you, you know, see, this neighborhood,\n\n00:07:14:23 - 00:07:17:06\neveryone got along\n\n00:07:17:06 - 00:07:20:18\nAnd you, I don't care\rwhat color you were or,\n\n00:07:20:18 - 00:07:23:22\nyou know, what race and and we did.\n\n00:07:23:22 - 00:07:28:01\nBut then there were people\rthat came from, Mexicans\n\n00:07:28:01 - 00:07:30:09\nthat came from Mexico\n\n00:07:30:09 - 00:07:33:12\nand Black people that came from the South,\n\n00:07:33:12 - 00:07:36:08\n\rand they didn't really get along.\n\n00:07:36:08 - 00:07:39:15\nBecause you have to understand,\rwe were raised like this\n\n00:07:39:15 - 00:07:41:15\nand there they weren't.\n\n00:07:41:15 - 00:07:43:18\nSo there was a lot of fighting.\n\n00:07:43:18 - 00:07:46:09\n\rAs a young person, this teenager,\n\n00:07:46:09 - 00:07:50:00\nyou didn't know you were \rpart of a gang, as they called us.\n\n00:07:50:00 - 00:07:52:05\nBut nobody was in a gang.\n\n00:07:52:05 - 00:07:57:09\nEverybody just went to dances together\rand, and did things together.\n\n00:07:57:09 - 00:08:01:04\nBut I have to say...\n\n00:08:01:04 - 00:08:04:15\nWe didn't know what our boyfriends\rwere doing afterwards.\n\n00:08:04:15 - 00:08:06:21\nYou know, they were out in the street.\n\n00:08:06:21 - 00:08:09:10\nWe weren't allowed to be out there.\n\n00:08:09:10 - 00:08:10:15\nAnd uh...\n\n00:08:10:15 - 00:08:11:22\nIf somebody from another\n\n00:08:11:22 - 00:08:15:18\nneighborhood would come in,\rthey would naturally, they would fight.\n\n00:08:15:18 - 00:08:18:02\nBut, nobody was getting shot at.\n\n00:08:18:02 - 00:08:20:05\n\rBecause I know a lot of people that moved out\n\n00:08:20:05 - 00:08:25:18\nand came back within a two year\rspan was because, oh, God,\n\n00:08:25:18 - 00:08:29:11\nI have these people that just want to know\reverything that I'm doing.\n\n00:08:29:11 - 00:08:33:13\nThey’re in my business.\rHere in Venice, nobody cares.\n\n00:08:33:13 - 00:08:35:11\nYou do your own thing, I'll do mine.\n\n00:08:35:11 - 00:08:39:17\nYou know,\rthis is growing up a little bit later.\n\n00:08:39:17 - 00:08:44:14\nI think that's what, that's made\rthe big difference here in Venice.\n\n00:08:44:14 - 00:08:47:04\nI’ve just always liked being by the ocean.\n\n00:08:47:04 - 00:08:49:11\nI've moved to different places.\n\n00:08:49:11 - 00:08:51:18\nI've lived in San Diego.\n\n00:08:51:18 - 00:08:54:07\nI've lived a little while in the Valley.\n\n00:08:54:07 - 00:08:59:22\nI have my children,\rmy grandchildren and great grandchildren,\n\n00:09:00:10 - 00:09:04:13\nand they like coming to Venice,\rand they expect to let's\n\n00:09:04:13 - 00:09:09:12\ngo to the canals, walk around\rlike we did before, go to the beach.\n\n00:09:09:12 - 00:09:11:12\nI love it here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://veniceheritagemuseum.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2416/collection_resources/129350/file/242308#t=0.0,561.04533"}]}]}]}