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.
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.
Boyle Heights Slideshow
Hollenbeck Junior High School class D homeroom 147 basketball team, 1945.
Gift of Alvaro Rodriguez (2000.244.6)
Hollenbeck Junior High School student body officers, 1938.
Gift of Elma Takahashi (2001.208.2)
Roosevelt High School A and B football team captains George Kornoff (right) and George Fujino (left), 1937.
Gift of George Kornoff (2000.409.3)
Roosevelt High School senior prom at the Ambassador Hotel’s Coconut Grove, 1954.
Gift of Jane Kim (2000.225.1)
The Stump family on their front porch, North Soto Street, late 1800s.
Gift of Marie Adamson (2000.245.2)
Ray and Ricardo Terrones play soldier with their cousins, 1942.
Gift of the Terrones Family (2000.252.8)
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)
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)
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 sign. Photograph by Yolanda Guerra.
Courtesy of Shades of L.A. Archives/Los Angeles Public Library
Aiko Fujita and granddaughter Simone on front porch, Eagle Street, ca. 1990.
Gift of the Fujita Family (2001.218.3)
Oral Histories
Oral History Excerpts
Read excerpts from over 50 oral histories conducted as part of the Boyle Heights Project.
Audio Diaries
Through the Audio Diaries project, a teen examines the wartime removal of Japanese Americans from her Boyle Heights neighborhood.