The García family, written down
A yellow house on Fresno Street, twenty dozen tamales, and a guitar put away for a year.
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Dolores García
Dolores García (1940–2017), Mamá Lola, came from a town outside Guadalajara in 1963, sewed in a garment factory downtown for twenty-six years, and ran the house on Fresno Street like a small and very…
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The House on Fresno Street
A yellow stucco house in East Los Angeles, bought in 1968 with eleven years of savings, with bougainvillea over the porch and two palms that Ernesto planted the week they moved in.
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Mamá Lola's Christmas Tamales
Red pork tamales, made on the twenty-third of December by everybody at once — the tamalada — under Mamá Lola's direction. Every person has a job and nobody gets to choose it.
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Marisela's Quinceañera, 1985
Marisela's fifteenth birthday party in the backyard at Fresno Street — papel picado strung over the yard, a cake from the bakery on César Chávez, and her grandfather's trio playing until the…
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Ernesto García
Ernesto García (1936–2008) came north to pick fruit in 1958, stayed, became the best mechanic in the neighbourhood, and played guitar with two friends every Saturday for forty years.
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The Guitar in the Closet
Why Ernesto's guitar stayed in the hall closet for a year after 1987, and the song that brought it out again.
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- &Ernesto García1936–2008
- &Ana Ruizb. 1967
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