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Mitch O'Farrell: Cruise Ship Performer to City Council Candidate
L.A. has allowed the former cruise ship dancer and world traveler to redefine himself as a local politician.
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Alicia Escalante: From Teenage Runaway to Leading Chicana Activist
Her voice roared across audiences and moved mountains.
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John Arroyo: Four Generations in East L.A., Plus Urban Planning and The Tomato King
Urban planner John Arroyo has seen four generations of his family live under the same roof in East L.A.
In 2012 and 2013, Jeremy Rosenberg spoke with dozens of Angelenos to tell the stories of how they or their families came to Los Angeles.
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Arrival Stories
What’s your arrival story?
Post date:Everyone has an arrival story or two to tell.
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Arrival Stories
Telling L.A.
Post date:Diverse Angelenos tell compelling live stories about what brought them to Los Angeles.
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Charisse L'Pree Corsbie-Massay: Her Arrival... and Departure
Post date:"A young man at the Santa Monica Pier asked how I could go to the movies by myself. When I told him I was a researcher, he responded, 'Oh. That's why you're single.'"
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Kamal Moummad: Morocco, Paris, Hoops, Modeling, and a Will Ferrell Movie
Post date:"What I love the most about Los Angeles is that to me it is a very welcoming place. No matter where you're from, what your nationality, background, or religion is, you're welcome here! You don't feel rejected. People are warm and friendly just like L...
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Ilaria Mazzoleni: Splitting Her Time Between Italian Village and L.A.
Post date:"I find L.A. to be very similar in certain aspects to Milano. They both are cities that one needs to discover, where everything is hidden and where things are not really coming at you."
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João Morlett: Fourth Time's a Charm and the Link to His Ink
Post date:"Putting the L.A. Metro symbol on me would really encompass the past two years. I feel like it will close a chapter of me traveling and starting a new life."
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Bozena Barton: Leaving Behind Tanks In The Streets
Post date:When I said "open to anywhere," it didn't even occur to me that L.A. would ever be a possibility. I mean, San Francisco, maybe. Portland, maybe. But I certainly never thought, "Los Angeles."
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Marcus Gray: Hip-Hop Chocolate From Underground L.A.
Post date:"People could actually hold a symbol of their affinity in their hands -- their love of being a deejay or collecting records or dancing -- and consume it as if were like Catholic communion."
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Steve Abee: We're All Just Waves
Post date:"I love this crazy city. It's an amazing piece of the planet. You get up on a hilltop and the vista you are presented with is this eternal, mythological dreamscape."
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Diane Harris Hara: Checking the Pulse of Pasadena and Beyond
Post date:The mild climate of Pasadena offered respite from the harsh winters of the Midwest.
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Tanya Frank: Wooed by the Weather, Terrain, and Girl Down the Block
Post date:"With so little greenery and so much grey, I was prone to daydreaming, to wanting for something better. It was called America."
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Keren Taylor: Right Place, WriteGirl
Post date:The warm smell of jasmine flowers in the evening attracted her to Los Angeles, where she found community within a writers group she founded.
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Chiwan Choi: Los Angeles, Writ Large
Post date:"My family tried living near Griffith Park, just north of Los Feliz, but we didn't like it. It was haunted, among other things."
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Yvonne Chan: 19 Days on a Boat from Hong Kong; A Lifetime of Making a Difference in L.A.
Post date:For the life-long educator, "the City of Angels definitely embraced me, nurtured me, taught me and I am proud that they made an angel out of me!"
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Mike Sonksen: He *Is* Alive in Los Angeles
Post date:A third generation Angeleno describes his family's tight connection to Los Angeles, from working on the railroads as a Spanish interpreter to a marriage proposal at the Point Fermin Lighthouse.
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Meena Nanji: Kenya As Paradise; London As Post-Punk; Los Angeles As Definitely Weird
Post date:In England, it was a given that you are miserable, that's just how it is. In L.A., the goal was to be happy and cheerful and nice to people.
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Lucia Capacchione: Her Grandparents Helped Build L.A.'s Little Italy
Post date:Both sides of her family came from the same town in Italy -- but arrived in America under very different circumstances.
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Aura Leticia Martinez: Four-Years-Old In Guatemala, She Said, 'I'm Going to California'
Post date:Spanish speakers were hard to come by when she arrived to Los Angeles fifty years ago.
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Jose Saca: From Salvador, Robbed by Coyotes, Amnestied by Reagan
Post date:We took the bus to Guatemala, where we got assaulted by our coyote. He took almost everything from us.
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Ariana Delawari: Somewhere Between Kabul and Los Angeles
Post date:Born right after the Soviet invasion of her family's home country, she grew up in two worlds: the '80s and '90s La Cañada and the world of Afghanistan.
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Telling L.A.
Diverse Angelenos tell compelling live stories about what brought them to Los Angeles.