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Past Exhibition

Boyle Heights

The Power of Place

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Explore accompanying materials produced for the exhibition:

  • Watch a documentary produced by JANM’s Watase Media Arts Center for the exhibition.
  • Watch a retrospective Q&A presented virtually in 2020, with exhibition/documentary producers and curators Sojin Kim and Claudia Sobral; along with Chicano Artivista Quetzal Flores; musician, writer, and producer Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara; and JANM VP of Exhibitions and Art Director Clement Hanami as they reflected on the project eighteen years later.
  • See photos collected from the Boyle Height’s community.
  • Read excerpts from oral histories conducted as research for the exhibition.

Videos    Photos   Oral Histories

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September 08, 2002 - February 23, 2003

Japanese American National Museum

Weingart Foundation Gallery

100 N. Central Ave.

Los Angeles, CA 90012

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Explore accompanying materials produced for the exhibition:

  • Watch a documentary produced by JANM’s Watase Media Arts Center for the exhibition.
  • Watch a retrospective Q&A presented virtually in 2020, with exhibition/documentary producers and curators Sojin Kim and Claudia Sobral; along with Chicano Artivista Quetzal Flores; musician, writer, and producer Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara; and JANM VP of Exhibitions and Art Director Clement Hanami as they reflected on the project eighteen years later.
  • See photos collected from the Boyle Height’s community.
  • Read excerpts from oral histories conducted as research for the exhibition.

Videos    Photos   Oral Histories

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Stories

September 08, 2002 - February 23, 2003

Japanese American National Museum

Weingart Foundation Gallery

100 N. Central Ave.

Los Angeles, CA 90012

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Stories

Explore accompanying materials produced for the exhibition:

  • Watch a documentary produced by JANM’s Watase Media Arts Center for the exhibition.
  • Watch a retrospective Q&A presented virtually in 2020, with exhibition/documentary producers and curators Sojin Kim and Claudia Sobral; along with Chicano Artivista Quetzal Flores; musician, writer, and producer Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara; and JANM VP of Exhibitions and Art Director Clement Hanami as they reflected on the project eighteen years later.
  • See photos collected from the Boyle Height’s community.
  • Read excerpts from oral histories conducted as research for the exhibition.

Videos    Photos   Oral Histories

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Crossroads: Boyle Heights

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Crossroads: Boyle Heights

This documentary was compiled from life histories of past and present neighborhood residents of Boyle Heights. Originally produced for the exhibition, it was reissued in DVD format which includes extras that were not featured on the original video.

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Boyle Heights Slideshow

boys basketball team

Hollenbeck Junior High School class D homeroom 147 basketball team, 1945.

Gift of Alvaro Rodriguez (2000.244.6)

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Hollenbeck Junior High School student body officers, 1938.

Gift of Elma Takahashi (2001.208.2)

Football team captains George Kornoff (right) and George Fujino (left)

Roosevelt High School A and B football team captains George Kornoff (right) and George Fujino (left), 1937.

Gift of George Kornoff (2000.409.3)

Students sitting at table dressed up at senior prom

Roosevelt High School senior prom at the Ambassador Hotel’s Coconut Grove, 1954.

Gift of Jane Kim (2000.225.1)

A man and two women on their front porch

The Stump family on their front porch, North Soto Street, late 1800s.

Gift of Marie Adamson (2000.245.2)

young boys play soldier holding wooden rifles and wearing helmets

Ray and Ricardo Terrones play soldier with their cousins, 1942.

Gift of the Terrones Family (2000.252.8)

A couple with their children

Angel and Sumie Berrios and Kinuko Saito with their children, Aliso Village, 1947. Like other returning servicemen and war-industry workers, they were given first priority for housing when they returned from World War II.

Gift of Marie Masumoto (2000.411.3)

A group of boys on playground

The Cougars, a Boyle Heights athletic club from Evergreen Playground, on an outing to Terminal Island, ca. 1937.

Gift of George Fujino (2000.418.1)

wedding couple getting into a car

The Uraines en route to their wedding at the Molokan church, Lan Franco Street, ca. 1930s?

Gift of James Tolmasov (2001.217.4)

Boyle Heights neighborhood street sign

Boyle Heights neighborhood sign. Photograph by Yolanda Guerra.

Courtesy of Shades of L.A. Archives/Los Angeles Public Library

Aiko Fujita and granddaughter Simone on front porch

Aiko Fujita and granddaughter Simone on front porch, Eagle Street, ca. 1990.

Gift of the Fujita Family (2001.218.3)

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Oral Histories

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Oral History Excerpts

Read excerpts from over 50 oral histories conducted as part of the Boyle Heights Project.

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Audio Diaries

Through the Audio Diaries project, a teen examines the wartime removal of Japanese Americans from her Boyle Heights neighborhood.

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